Survey shows Gmail users would gladly sacrifice features for more privacy
Survey shows users are ready to ditch Gmail for this ultra-private email service
Most of you said you’d switch to Proton Mail for the privacy, even if it meant giving up some of the convenience of Gmail.
And this is exactly why I use ProtonMail. My old Gmail is now a junk folder I check......about never. It was actually much easier to switch over providers than I expected. I basically would just switch one over every time I logged into it. Everything else got to keep the junkmail account. :)
there are probably providers out there that deliver this.
would not recommend proton though. the ceo is a fascist, and not to be trusted anymore.
CEO claims are valid and if people don't want to support company because of that is fine. But please don't spread false information about their producs not being trustworthy anymore. Their products have independent audits to show that you can trust their claims and it's not just empty words.
That tweet doesn't remotely make one a fascist.
Also the control of the company is in the hands of a nonprofit with a very solid board.
And thus is one of the issues. I watched for a long time as sooooooooooo many people urged going to proton. And now look.
This is true for a lot of things. Are we just doomed to endlessly migrate to different emails, browsers, phones, etc?
Gets fucking old and why I just don't most of the time. Most hype about anything ever is bullshit.
honestly sticking with FOSS mostly solves all this.
ive been using firefox for more than a decade now without problems. mozilla is certainly fumbling but the browser is still good enough imo.
truly open phones would solve that problem for good, but any foss rom will get you covered and always has. anything goes as long as it can run lineage or similar.
as with email or vpn services, i don't think theres really a good medium term solution there since these services are run by third parties. those are always about trust. maybe selfhosting can be somewhat of a solution.
its a capitalism problem more than anything, really, but most of it has stable workarounds.
Tha'ts the g in Gmail for you.
Survey with nerds responding to AndroidAuthority shows a minimal unrespresenitive population SAY they would trade features.
Follow up survey finds that few of them actually do switch when presented with the already current options to do so.
Fixed that headline for ya.
