Improved Authentication for Email Encryption and Security
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Re: Improved Authentication for Email Encryption and Security
#2Nice to see wider adoption of ZKPP authentication.
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#3how practical is it to drop GMail for these guys? I'm tied fairly heavily to the Google ecosystem (Chome, Play, Finance, etc etc). They already have a mountain of data on me, but I really want to start taking encryption and privacy more seriously.
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#4So how does one migrate from the two password to the one?
I like the idea of protonmail, but since they made it incompatible with normal public key encrypted mail it's pretty useless for many of us, unfortunately...
Re: Improved Authentication for Email Encryption and Security
#5how practical is it to drop GMail for these guys? I'm tied fairly heavily to the Google ecosystem (Chome, Play, Finance, etc etc). They already have a mountain of data on me, but I really want to start taking encryption and privacy more seriously.
Currently, for me, lack of a calendar is holding me back. As well as some other features, but I could probably overcome those. Relevant uservoice: https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-feedback/sugg...
Re: Improved Authentication for Email Encryption and Security
#6how practical is it to drop GMail for these guys? I'm tied fairly heavily to the Google ecosystem (Chome, Play, Finance, etc etc). They already have a mountain of data on me, but I really want to start taking encryption and privacy more seriously.
Currently, for me, lack of a calendar is holding me back. As well as some other features, but I could probably overcome those. Relevant uservoice: https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-feedback/sugg...
yikes, yea a calendar is pretty important. I suppose org-agenda could substitute but the way Inbox organizes all my travel is worth the fact that Google knows i'm flying to London.
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#7how practical is it to drop GMail for these guys? I'm tied fairly heavily to the Google ecosystem (Chome, Play, Finance, etc etc). They already have a mountain of data on me, but I really want to start taking encryption and privacy more seriously.
You could use Fastmail.
Re: Improved Authentication for Email Encryption and Security
#8So how does one migrate from the two password to the one? I like the idea of protonmail, but since they made it incompatible with normal public key encrypted mail it's pretty useless for many of us, unfortunately...
Looks like it's over in the settings; just under Change Password is Switch to One-Password Mode.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Currently, for me, lack of a calendar is holding me back. As well as some other features, but I could probably overcome those. Relevant uservoice: https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-feedback/sugg...
yikes, yea a calendar is pretty important. I suppose org-agenda could substitute but the way Inbox organizes all my travel is worth the fact that Google knows i'm flying to London.
>> They already have a mountain of data on me, but I really want to start taking encryption and privacy more seriously.
> I suppose org-agenda could substitute but the way Inbox organizes all my travel is worth the fact that Google knows i'm flying to London.
Well.. at some point you have to choose something over the other.
Re: Improved Authentication for Email Encryption and Security
#10how practical is it to drop GMail for these guys? I'm tied fairly heavily to the Google ecosystem (Chome, Play, Finance, etc etc). They already have a mountain of data on me, but I really want to start taking encryption and privacy more seriously.
I didn't miss anything when I left Gmail, but I imagine it depends a lot on how you use email. I switched to Fastmail on my own domain and actually prefer the webmail interface over Gmail.
I mainly use IMAP via Mail.app on my laptop and phone, Pantheon Mail (formerly Geary) on my desktop. I use PGP wherever I can. I haven't received any spam at all yet, so I can't comment on how their spam filters compare to Gmail. I maintain a zero inbox – important stuff gets archived, and everything else is deleted. This means that I don't miss Gmail's search feature as hardly keep any emails. Obviously your mileage may vary here. They also support CalDAV and CardDAV – so all of my notes, contacts, calendar items etc. are synced across my devices.
I've moved from Google completely, and for the most part, I don't really miss them all that much.
- Search -> DuckDuckGo (I do miss Google here – DDG's search results pale in comparison)
- Gmail -> Fastmail
- Maps -> Citymapper and Apple Maps
- Chrome -> Safari on macOS, Firefox on everything else (my experience with FF is a bit 'meh' – it was incredibly laggy on my work laptop, but runs great on my desktop)