He seemed like a decent guy and that was enough for me to finally make the switch from Gmail to proton and buy prem.
They have some shady (or at least questionable) enough actions in their past, some even covered by mainstream media, that made me dismiss them as an option. I went with the German hosted mailbox.org instead. Swiss law (where proton is hosted) is actually quite a bit less protective of privacy than EU/German law, or maybe just protected in other ways. The international reputation of privacy protecting character of Swiss law seems to be outdated?
Just to be clear, I can’t remember exactly what the specific events were that caused me to reconsider back when I switched years ago. When I just did some quick (!) searches just now, I found statements that they would only record ip addresses in “extreme criminal cases”, but examples include cases of trespassing and property damage. Not exactly child molesters and serial killers (example source). I also understand that the (Swiss) laws relevant to them probably forced them to, but at the very least that seems dishonest or misleading advertising.
So many capital letters in that headline, it reads like my grandma trying to figure out texting.
Indeed, my first though was that these are not MY questions.
Is there a text version of this interview?
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I don’t know but I listened to it on a walk
It’s an interesting and linux centric video about proton
Any mirrors? Tilvids.com seems to be down.
YouTube seems up
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I’m very disappointed that there was no mention of adding Monero(XMR) for payment.
It’s nearly an hour long and Nick said they only covered a portion of all questions.
It’s one of the most asked for features since 2018, and there isn’t even a minute for it?
Do you need to pay for your email provider with Monero? If it’s the VPN that you primarily care about, then I believe Mullvad accepts Monero
If email is so important for privacy then why can’t I pay for it in a privacy protecting way?
I mean, I suppose that’s fair. I guess paying for email with Monero feels a bit like overkill to me, but it depends on your threat model
I reason it this way. If like they say in the video email is one of the most critical parts of privacy (I 100% agree with that) then why don’t they support the only privacy currency? Also why pay for email well simple I both want the features that paying gives you but anything free either you are the product or others are indirectly paying for me. I want my email provider to not spy on me and sell my data so why not give my money to a provider that proves that they protect it? I chose Tuta.com instead of proton because of this. And to make it clear Tuta.com doesn’t allow monero payments but their official reseller proxysto.re does allow monero! Also it’s not hard to add monero as a payment option :)
