I’m trying to get rid of my Google dependency and one of those steps was moving over to Protonmail. Now in the past few days i have been picking up signals that even Protonmail is not as clean as it might be.

Does this really impact the privacy of how i use email and so is moving to Protonmail a step forward from Google, or is Protonmail just as bad?

If so, what could be alternatives?

edit:

Some of the alternatives being mentioned in the comments are:

Email:

VPN:

edit 2 (2023):

There seems to be some new activity around this post. At the time of writing the post (2 years ago) there were some stories going as user @UnfortunateShort described in their comment. This made me question the best options available at that moment. Currently i am still a Proton user, using their Mail and Calendar service, and Mullvad for VPN.

  • ufra
    2•3 years ago

    nice link about google infrastructure

    it could mean that some information — such as IP address and knowledge of their attempt to connect to ProtonMail — will become visible via those third parties.

    disappointing, google has their hands in everything. I just learned that Standard Notes implemented an opt-out api call to bugsnag, a company backed by Google Ventures.

    ProtonMail does seem a bit fishy and flimsy. I tried their VPN for about an hour and kept getting marketing emails afterwards.