[peter_d_sherman]

This is an interesting page:

https://tuta.com/email-comparison

Whereupon we find the following comparisons:

>"Protonmail vs Tuta Mail

Fastmail vs Tuta Mail

Mailbox.org vs Tuta Mail

Posteo vs Tuta Mail

Hushmail vs Tuta Mail

Startmail vs Tuta Mail

Riseup vs Tuta Mail"

...in other words, there's no shortage of email providers...

[initplus]

These pages, and more on the Tuta website, are a blatant example of SEO spam. Thousands of words long, all rephrasing the same talking points and SEO keywords. No real customer is going to read thousands of words of rephrased crap.

They even admit as much in the blogpost: “We have no idea why Google is no longer showing our website for thousands of keywords that we used to rank for in the past.” Juicing your ranking with SEO spam littered with “keywords” is now penalized in Google ranking. They would rank better by removing 90% of “content” on their website.

[danpalmer]

And no shortage of SEO keywords.

[ziml77]

Holy cow the blatant SEO on that page. Trying to get all the versus searches that users might try while also stuffing all the other email providers names in as many times as possible.

[initplus]

Yeah I felt kinda hoodwinked. I read their blog post and felt quite outraged. Google stepping on the little guy, “they provided no explanation” etc.

Then I scroll to the bottom of the thread on hacker news, saw this comment, and “oh, that’s why”. They didn’t even take down the SEO spam before complaining about being caught.

I really don’t think I could trust any “privacy focused” email provider that relies on such deceptive tactics to promote their business.