Yeah I would trust them. But I don't think I would use them because I just find their mail service to have too much friction in a lack of interoperability with clients unless you not only pay money, but also download a whole extra program just to decrypt your email. It's essentially a walled garden
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I stopped using them because their Android app is absolute dog shit. But I would trust them more than Google.
When Proton has a single app available on native F-Droid wirh zero anti-features, not from a different repository,conly then will I use their services. I don't use anything from them now. No Protonmail, no VPN, I don't use them.
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For some use cases, perhaps. I do trust them to keel over as soon as anything looking like an authority sends a request. I don't trust them to be as good as their marketing.
No news about scams or particularly evil policies yet, which is far better than many providers.
No, mainly because they're pumping out too many services. Also free VPNs just sound really sketchy to me.
Do you trust Proton?
For starters, such a question is coming at it from the wrong perspective. One should have trust in the software -- if such sowtware is, indeed, trustworthy -- and not in the entity that created it. If one seeks privacy, then they should be of the mindset that every entity is malevolent.
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Actually... this is the only internet privacy company that I trust. I just hope that they start to deliver new products and apps faster... especially on Android, so that we can de-Google our lives as much as possible.
No. I don't trust the Swiss. They're tied up with US intelligence and they'll do anything for money (that's why they're always neutral). I've gotten shit on here before for saying Protonmail might be a honeypot but I'm sticking by it.
Such a point is rather moot -- one should not be using email for any form of secure communications, as it is inherently insecure.
I feel the same OP. There's no good reason for it but I just don't trust them. I have no idea why.