They will never open their apps. The whole business model of Proton is centered around user lock-in.
Who wants to bet they’ll discontinue the IMAP/SMTP desktop bridge after the desktop app has been out for a while? At which point you will not be able anymore to use an IMAP tool to extract your mail and go to another service.
If you store a lot of email on Proton take a backup now.
That’s my problem with these encrypted services: they lock you in. It makes me feel queasy, but at the same time, it ain’t google or yahoo or whatever.
I agree. I have privacy concerns, but ultimately, I think I care more about freedom and open source. I have very real concerns about the rise of authoritarianism in America, and I’m trying to balance that against a preference for more open services like mailbox.org and fastmail.
I guess they’ll do anything but get their app on F-Droid.
They will never open their apps. The whole business model of Proton is centered around user lock-in.
Who wants to bet they’ll discontinue the IMAP/SMTP desktop bridge after the desktop app has been out for a while? At which point you will not be able anymore to use an IMAP tool to extract your mail and go to another service.
If you store a lot of email on Proton take a backup now.
That’s my problem with these encrypted services: they lock you in. It makes me feel queasy, but at the same time, it ain’t google or yahoo or whatever.
I agree. I have privacy concerns, but ultimately, I think I care more about freedom and open source. I have very real concerns about the rise of authoritarianism in America, and I’m trying to balance that against a preference for more open services like mailbox.org and fastmail.
Proton mail, proton vpn are on Fdroid
Proton Mail is NOT on F-droid. Only Proton VPN.
Wierd, I am in F-Droid and searching for “Proton” shows both apps for me. Maybe its on another repo?
Maybe you enabled izzyondroid
Ha, I do have that repo enabled.