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what are the best private email services that aren't invite only atm? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by wtry@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I'm a proton unlimited subscriber. Can't recommend these guys enough. Customer support is always excellent, very capable guys no matter if you're on Android or Arch Linux, these guys know their shit. They have a black Friday sale every year but for protonvpn, protonmail, simplelogin premium, 500gb storage. Everything e2ee, I mean, what can I say but they're an amazing company.

[–] RohanWillAnswer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

I’ll second this one. I love Proton. It’s the only free service, other than the late Apollo, that I’ve ever decided to pay to upgrade just because I love it so much. It also happens to be well worth paying for imo.

As with any service, unless you build and host it all yourself, you’re ultimately trusting some one else with your data. However, Proton are generally very transparent and, as you say, seem to really know their shit. For those reasons I choose to trust their services.

[–] kaato@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I use Proton as well. Very happy with it.

[–] wtry@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hear a lot of criticism about them pretending to be private and not actually protecting user's data

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All companies located in the west are not private. They have to operate according to the local laws, and those laws allows governments and agencies to get the data they ask for.

But depends on what you mean with private also. It's private in a way that they don't sell your data perhaps.

[–] randomguy2323@lemmy.kevitprojects.com 3 points 1 year ago

Every company in the world will comply with local laws. What you can do its use Tor to access it so your IP address its safe. Send emails only inside the Proton Network so its end to end encrypted. Use a strong and a Yubikey to access it. But even with all of this if you are doing something highly illegal they will catch you. So understand this there no service in the world that will protect you.