What features does Gmail even have to sacrifice? It’s just basic email.
Gmail has features? Fucking where?
Moving away from gmail is one thing, but Proton's CEO is a massive cunt that I wouldn't personally trust anymore. I have an ongoing subscription for some of their services (including email, but I don't really use it), and I'm going to move on from there after the subscription expires.
not to mention Proton's PR team has mod positions in the subreddit and lemmy community and like to do some pretty aggressive censoring of anything that refers to the CEO's support of Trump in hopes of gaslighting everyone to forget about it.
I got banned from the lemmy community recently and my posts removed as 'misinformation' for talking about it... like man the entire internet saw him say this shit.
Gmail's only feature that made it compelling was an inbox of 1GB when everyone else was doing 20MB. Oh, and using Ajax to make it slightly more responsive.
None of the other stuff they added matters, especially if you're using a mail client.
I also think labels are the right way to organise emails. It was pretty unique at the time, and I think it still isn't common.
And frankly, I like gmail's interface more than Thunderbird's, for example.
Yeah, this isn't really scientific or anything. The details of he survey aren't really discussed in detail, and its not random sampling... Its readers of android authority.
That's nearly equivalent of saying, the majority of people in this privacy group care more about privacy than google features.
I'd be interested to see a broad survey like this though to get a real sense of how the general publics views on privacy are changing.
honestly i believe the reason so many people are never gonna switch from google is because so many services allow you to use your google as an easy one click register/login. its so convenient that i have friends who'd rather have all their privacy be infringed than to give that up.
not to mention the dozens of services google provides themselves, from maps to mail to search to whatever the fuck
similar to apple, its an ecosystem. one of convenience.
100%. it's SO annoying to remember passwords especially when my phone doesn't auto save them 50% of the time because it doesn't feel like it.
Why doesn't everyone just use a better manager like Lastpass or Bitwarden, it's super easy to use.
I do use Bitwarden, and in my experience of >1 year, it's good enough. It sometimes doesn't save automatically and if you save (for example) a McDonalds login on PC, it won't offer to fill on their app. Also you cant save new passwords offline which is a pretty rare situation but it made me want to rip my hair out (granted I didn't have enough food that day so I was angry to begin with).
Minor gripes for sure, but Google doesn't have the same annoyances. Not worth going back to Google though.
I guess I've always just made the new passwords in Bitwarden and have it fill in the form rather than fill in the form and let Bitwarden save it. Do you not use generated passwords? Can't help you on the offline thing, I see how that would be annoying.
It's called the Googleverse.
Many people don't know the difference between the Google search bar and the URL bar anymore.
Email doesn't need "features." It's been a solved problem for decades.
It does need a PGP integration.
I mean I know why it won't, and never in Gmail, but we do need it.
You'd be surprised how seamlessly https://flowcrypt.com/ integrates with gmail. Been using it for years, zero complaints.
I agree.
I guess most of these people don't understand the difference between the protocol/server and the client software, and most of those use the web ui anyhow.
Like Google is going to do that. The entire reason for gmails existence is to gather data from its users.
It's ridiculous how user data has become such a big commodity.
Ultra Private E-Mail
look inside
The most basic ass unencrypted email
Is Proton still an alternative? I subscribed to Tuta for a year but I'm not too happy with their apps. Feels like low-grade web apps disguised as mobile apps.
Used it for years now, 100% worth the money and the bundled cloud storage and vpn are both great.
I'd say yes. Have been using ProtonMail as main mail service for several years now. There are some limitations because of encryption, but for the most part it's working almost the same as GMail. I've had Tutamail too, but I too didn't like the design of their app, it was very restricted and lacked features of almost any kind.
I think their new (not so new anymore) mobile app has been a major improvement. It is much faster and usable IMHO. This on Android (degoogled).
I am quite happy with the service, and so is my family (non-techie).
It's not like Proton mail is the only alternative. And like the article points out, you don't get encryption anyway, since almost no one else you'd be communicating with is going to be on Proton. I use (and recommend) posteo.de but there are other good alternatives for email. But if you want encrypted communication you'll need to use an app designed for that, not email.
I never quite understand why people use Proton. It just automates the exchange of PGP/GPG keys, but only if the other person also uses Proton, right?
Anyhow, +1 to paying a small amount of money for email. I was with posteo.de myself for many years. I heard mailbox.org is even better/safer and has slightly more features. Both start at 1€/month.
BTW, I set up an eternal redirect email address a long time ago, so I can change the actual provider without having to tell all my contacts.
I highly recommend Disroot.org. I switched as part of my deGoogling and I am very happy.
Welcome! This is a community for all those who are interested in protecting their privacy.
PS: Don't be a smartass and try to game the system, we'll know if you're breaking the rules when we see it!
Some of these are only vaguely related, but great communities.