evacideFeb 26
I'm just a girl, incrementing the counter on the number of times I have been sent a plaintext email from a Protonmail user telling me that the message is encrypted.
Show threadRiverMar 1

@evacide my biggest gripe about the whole "switch to proton, it's got encrypted email" thing is that this really only works if everybody switches. There's no published standard to my knowledge that other email providers can use that interoperate with proton's encryption.

Hell, you can't even do proton email encryption from a 3rd party client. I understand perhaps that email is a bad platform for making secure, but couldn't they have made an open standard so that other people could plug in, rather than expect the whole world to switch to them? Feels like an open door to Enshittification.

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@riverpunk You have come to the correct conclusion, yes. In the meantime, I do need to come up with suggestions for what people should do about sensitive email and I have to cut through a lot of misleading advertising claims in order to do it.
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Show threadCyberFrogMar 1
@evacide @riverpunk this, among a long LONG list of other reasons that proton is bad for consumers, is why I just started calling them part of big tech a while ago

really they employ the exact same methods as google to lock their users in, but with a privacy spin... I am also so sick of explaining to their users how the "encrypted" (lol) email actually works