@deirdrebeth @Matt_the_bad_writer If you're interested in user opinions: I've been using #ProtonMail for a couple years, ish, and it works reasonably well for the most part, but a lot of UI actions feel a bit slow (probably necessary to some extent because of the E2E encryption), and there are some, like swipe-to-archive, that behave in unusual ways. But my main gripes are:
- Filtering is *painfully* slow. Any change to filters takes on the order of an hour to take effect.
- Proton vastly restricts the ability to use different email addresses at a custom domain. I can set up a catch-all address to receive anything sent to my domain, but sending mail from any new address requires a settings change, and I'm limited to 16 active sending addresses.

There was also a thing some months ago about some inappropriate political statements made by Proton's CEO, and the company has never tried to distance itself from that AFAIK.

So I'm not exactly displeased with Proton, but I'm keeping my eyes open for alternatives.

@Theeo123

Perhaps another reason to de-Google. I'm working on the transition and it feels right. GrapheneOS is my next step. Google, and much of the Internet, has become far too invasive.

I switched my PCs to Linux years ago. That was a good move for me. It's been a refreshing change.

AI is everywhere now and getting more powerful every day. I'm just trying to claw back some degree of control over my personal data, though I realize it's too little, too late and perhaps fruitless.

De-Googling feels good at least, just like de-Windowing did!

I'd like to hear what steps are others taking...

#AI #De-Google #Android #Pixel #GrapheneOS #LinuxMint #Privacy #Security #ProtonMail

We use #ProtonMail at home. We could add them to our family plan … but I worry their endless email attachments would bust our 6TB limit. And I’m not sure how it would solve the remote tech support problem.

A variety of organizations support a Onion Service.

Tor Onion Service: https://community.torproject.org/onion-services

Any website can also be a onionsite.

EXAMPLES

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Tor: https://www.iykpqm7jiradoeezzkhj7c4b33g4hbgfwelht2evxxeicbpjy44c7ead.onion
Mastodon: @eff

Free Software Foundation Europe
Tor: http://fsfeorg3hsfyuhmdylxrqdvgsmjeoxuuug5a4dv3c3grkxzsl33d3xyd.onion
Mastodon: @fsfe

Proton
Tor: https://protonmailrmez3lotccipshtkleegetolb73fuirgj7r4o4vfu7ozyd.onion
Mastodon: N/A

InfoSec.Exchange
Tor: http://7jaxqg6lfcdtosooxhv5drpettiwnt6ytdywfgefppk2ol4dzlddblyd.onion
Mastodon: @jerry

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FOSS NEWS

Proton Mail gets Newsletter view to manage all email subscriptions in one place:
https://proton.me/blog/proton-mail-newsletters
(That's really cool. Now we can tell normies that Proton Mail has this feature and Gmail doesn't lol)

Proton Pass adds 14 new entry types, option to create custom types:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/proton-pass-goes-beyond-passwords-and-credit-cards-with-customizable-item-storage/
(Really tempting feature, but personally I would advise against storing every piece of sensitive data in one central database in the cloud. Proton can get hacked any time, like any other company, and also the new Swiss law can force them to hand over all that personal data in plain text, so you can mess up your privacy really badly. I'm not pointing fingers at Proton, but I think this update wasn't quite a good idea, it puts too much responsibility on them.)

Firefox 140 ESR released with unload tab feature, support for adding custom search engines in Search settings, support for keeping more or fewer pinned vertical tabs in view, "Select All" option for bookmarks on Android:
https://9to5linux.com/firefox-140-esr-web-browser-is-now-available-for-download-this-is-whats-new

Firefox 141 beta is available with less memory usage on Linux, ability to drag a tab to the pinned tabs tray and drag it out to unpin it, etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/firefox-141-promises-to-use-less-memory-on-linux-systems-beta-out-now

Mozilla discontinues DeepSpeech, an embedded/offline speech-to-text engine:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-DeepSpeech-Discontinued
(GNOME: *drops a feature every few releases*
Mozilla: Hold my beer. *drops a service each week*)

(more FOSS news in comment)

if you have bluesky, please like and forward my post there https://bsky.app/profile/nastasime.bsky.social/post/3lsmpdruo522g

Also use #cancelproton to call out #protonmail for their shit

@emberfox @Em0nM4stodon @smallcircles @nette @Linux #protonmail, you suck, time to find another email provider

@ganbatte NordVPN is great. Military grade encryption and all. But #ProtonVPN has more features and is not subject to the American Cloud Act.

I also use encrypted #protonmail .

So, both are actually great and there are pros and cons for both of them.
I think it's about personal preference.

@Tutanota
𝖴𝗉 𝗍𝗈 𝖽𝗈𝗐𝗇, 𝗅𝖾𝖿𝗍 𝗍𝗈 𝗋𝗂𝗀𝗁𝗍:
#DeepL; #VivaldiWebmail #Calendar; #Brave_Search/ #DuckDuckGo_Search; #ProtonPass; #Session; #VivaldiBrowser; #OnlyOffice; #Aurora_Store/ #FDroid; #e_OS (𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙮𝙚𝙩); #Ente_Photo; #Logseq; #Heliboard; #ProtonMail/ #VivaldiWebmail/ #TutaMail; #MiroTalk_SFU; #Ente_Auth; #ProtonDrive/ #filen_io; #PipePipe (𝙖 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙤𝙛 #NewPipe); #OsmAnd