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twleo

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    Comment #45565736

    I don't need another desktop app... The only thing I miss is the official API for the scheduled sending feature. That's the only thing I would open the webpage app to do.

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    Comment #37530991

    https://github.com/epitron/mitm-adblock or https://github.com/barre/privaxy

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    Comment #37528465

    Looks good. I hate how IOS does, especially with certificate pinning, so I cannot use my ad-block http mitmproxy to block ads in Apps. EDIT: thanks for people clarifying that pinni…

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    Comment #36972309

    Open source does not magically make your software more secure. Community needs to audit the code if they are going to use it instead of trusting blindly.

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    Comment #36877829

    That's why we should isolate Chromium from Google. Chromium should be lead by third-party like W3C.

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    Comment #36868438

    Hard Pass for closed-source browser.

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    Comment #36789803

    Me too. The only con is that Monaco does not have bold variants. Fortunately, someone has created them! https://github.com/vjpr/monaco-bold

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    Comment #36755484

    Code should be self-documented. And editor should have a good mechanism to help you understand the source code. Emacs does better in this angle than Vim by far. You can find the do…

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    Comment #36704140

    mu4e: [0] Because I live in Emacs! [0]: https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html

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    Comment #36654151

    That is one of my questions too. Use a low entropy things (I guess user's password would be not larger than 20 characters nowadays even using password managers) to encrypt a high e…

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    Comment #36651854

    Hmm. I rely mores on server-side filter rules because I don't use native Mail client.

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    Comment #36643850

    Even if all the decryption resides in the app/web browser side, they can just silently change the code and inject some scripts to hijack the encryption routine. Although they are o…

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    Comment #36643112

    For other functionality, I will say nothing because it takes time to implement features and Proton is not as big as Google. But for PGP? You should treat it seriously, considering …

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    Comment #36640682

    It hurts the trust mostly. If they cannot handle basic things like PGP correctly, how should I trust other part of their software. Especially they are a "Privacy-first" company. "P…

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    Comment #36640467

    iCloud filter rules is so weak...

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    Comment #36640388

    There is also a 2-year old issues: https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/issues/180 Proton makes it hard for open-source software developer to send patches and they don't car…

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    Comment #36569266

    Until Intel let me use ECC RAM on Consumer-grade CPU, I will use AMD without second thought.

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    Comment #33446635

    Proton should be responsible no matter it uses the third-party open-source/propriety components or not. If they decide to use third party libraries, that's their responsibility to …

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    Comment #33441636

    > Bridge is open source, and as a result relies upon open-source components I don't get it. Bridge is open source does not imply it should relies upon open-source components. > Add…

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    Comment #33433377

    Free-tier ProtonMail does not have the privilege to use this buggy bridge.

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    Comment #33433197

    FastMail takes on PGP is very reasonable. https://fastmail.blog/advanced/why-we-dont-offer-pgp/ I don't believe the encryption/key management from a company.

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    Comment #33433185

    I uses FastMail after I discover this serious issue about Proton. I would say it work flawlessly and their web mail client is super fast; even faster than Gmail. Besides, FastMail …

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    Comment #33433141

    I will agree with you if the bridge in a open source project backed by communities. However, bridge is a paid feature used to attract more users. Also, I don't understand your poin…