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by __jambo 1047 days ago
proton has an easy transfer process that I just did. They have to give the govt details they have in case of legal issues like squatting or whatever some bureaucrat makes up, but they can only see your devices and whatever you give them, not the content.

Idk about your style preferences though.

Edit: Hm, https://www.fsf.org/resources/webmail-systems this link below seems to say proton has javascript vulnerability...

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In order to perform encryption and decryption in your web browser and to properly authenticate you, we need to use JavaScript for the encryption and decryption process.

As any legally operating company, we need to comply with the local legislation. However, do to the zero-access encryption we use on our servers, there is very limited data we can provide in case of a data request. Particularly, we cannot share any of the email content (including attachments, content of your calendars, password, files stored on Proton Drive) in an unencrypted form, because we have no access to those ourselves.

I've been using Proton as an alternative to Gmail. Potential security issues aside it's been ok. Web interface is definitely more usable than Gmail is now. Big down side so far is no SMTP/IMAP support on the free plan. You need a paid plan to use a real email client. Caveat emptor.