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Re: Protonmail Recommended Browsers

#11
after wikileaks prism/nsa...it's really impossible for me to accept any kind of privacy assurances.

it's like there are public laws and hidden "patriot" laws, and companies are not allowed to disclose those things.

as a privacy company, if you haven't yet been raided by some government office, then you are probably compliant on some visible and invisible levels.

Re: Protonmail Recommended Browsers

#12

Protonmail and Brave do indeed seem like a good fit. Two somewhat sketchy, very commercial outfits that market themselves as more private than the competition and that will gladly break existing standards and practices to so. They also seem to attract surprisingly similar groups of users, including a larger-than-chance overlap. Protonmail, in particular, seems to have become a sort of running joke as the e-mail provi…

I see critics on Protonmail, but Brave is an absolut legit fully open-sourced project. Nothing Sketchy, and no the opt-in Crypto Program is also nothing sketcht.

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#14
Not completely on topic but just throwing this out there: Anyone know how to send from any user under a personal domain on an iPhone?

I have a personal mail domain that I have connected to proton. On my laptop I can send from any user@mydomain.com via Thunderbird connected to a free SendGrid outbound server. But on my phone I can only read mail or send from proton registered user@. Wondering if anyone knows of an ios mail client that allows me to setup something like Thunderbird with custom outbound server

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#15
post #3

It's good to see Firefox on top of this list. Is Protonmail usually accessed through web clients? I only use native iOS client and MacOS Mail with the Bridge app. Somehow I would expect Protonmail users to not use the web client so much, maybe I am wrong.

Web client on desktop, native app on my phone. It's the easiest. I use Protonmail because it's not Google and pleasant enough to use.

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#16

Not completely on topic but just throwing this out there: Anyone know how to send from any user under a personal domain on an iPhone? I have a personal mail domain that I have connected to proton. On my laptop I can send from any user@mydomain.com via Thunderbird connected to a free SendGrid outbound server. But on my phone I can only read mail or send from proton registered user@. Wondering if anyone knows of an ios…

You can change the SMTP servers at: Settings > Mail > Accounts > -choose account- > Account > SMTP

Re: Protonmail Recommended Browsers

#17
So basically there are practically only 3 browsers left in the desktop world(1) - Firefox, Chrome, Safari. Protonmail works on all 3 of them, which is good. But why is this a news worthy topic?

(1) not counting obscure ones like Lynx or others.

Re: Protonmail Recommended Browsers

#19
post #12

Protonmail and Brave do indeed seem like a good fit. Two somewhat sketchy, very commercial outfits that market themselves as more private than the competition and that will gladly break existing standards and practices to so. They also seem to attract surprisingly similar groups of users, including a larger-than-chance overlap. Protonmail, in particular, seems to have become a sort of running joke as the e-mail provi…

I see critics on Protonmail, but Brave is an absolut legit fully open-sourced project. Nothing Sketchy, and no the opt-in Crypto Program is also nothing sketcht.

The sketchy part is being a Chrome clone while pretending to be a "different" browser.

Re: Protonmail Recommended Browsers

#20

Protonmail and Brave do indeed seem like a good fit. Two somewhat sketchy, very commercial outfits that market themselves as more private than the competition and that will gladly break existing standards and practices to so. They also seem to attract surprisingly similar groups of users, including a larger-than-chance overlap. Protonmail, in particular, seems to have become a sort of running joke as the e-mail provi…

Can you recommend a paid mail service which is better? I'm in a search process now, to ditch google as much as I can, and was leaning towards Proton services.
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