Makes sense. I still don’t trust them though

Good for you

It depends on the project. If you are making a code editor / ice then yes. Your project may not support working with assembly files. Sure, they are just plaintext (I think? Or are they binary? I think I might be confusing assembler source files and complied files which are machine code), but you get no tooling like autocomplete, go to definition, etc

OK. Let’s leave this topic here, because we are talking about different things and have different concerns. It seems I know all I need to know about the topics you described, because I started this thread asking to check if there is something I’m missing, but none of the answers have mentioned anything that I didn’t know. Proton emails are encrypted at rest, and use LTS while sending and receiving. But none of this guarantees that they are not scanning / profiling me because they do have access to the plaintext emails while they enter and while they leave. I wasn’t looking for alternatives. I was just checking if it was actually worth the switch considering there are no privacy guarantees.

“Dear parents: your kids are being kidnapped”

i read the first part of google’s article about MAT-STS. it is good for secury, but does nothing to prevent providersfor reading in and out email

i don’t care about their VPN. the issue you describe is very real, but it’s inherit to all vpn providers. what i care right now, is their email service. you can switch vpn providers in less than 15 minutes, but email takes days. so i wouldn’t want to go around doing all of that every time some employee says something stupid.

and btw, if you use native installed apps, then the worry of them serving malicious javascript goes way down because any change they make on the complied package would be very likely to be very obvios to someone, because its open source ( i won’t go into detail here).

i’m not trying to argue “weird non-existent edge cases”. all i’ve ever used email for is for formal communications wit govenrments, companies, special cases like my landlady. that is also true for everyone i know. i believe if this wasn’t a general thing, then people wouldn’t me using messenger apps, they would just b eusing email. but that is not what hapens. i don’t know your case, but for me using email is non optional. i can’t “just use signal”. i need an email for my government, i need an email because i need a github account, i need an email for any site i want to use, including lemmy. i just want to be able to do it privately. i’m just trying to determine if protonmail is actually private or just one big “trust me bro. we wont read you unencrypted messages as they enter or leave”

Of course. But you didn’t switch to a trustless provider. You switch to a nobody that has nothing to lose by reading you email. Also my point is that google has programs reading every email, but not people. They probably have a lot of locks to stop employees form accessing users email

I don’t understand what you are trying to say

Nah. For those kinds of things I prefer sending over some platform. There is no need for a drive.I only use them when both computers ante near by and it’s easier

This really confuse me because I use the same app but not on dark mode. I didn’t understand why it was dark mode for half a post

I don’t know how old are you or where you live, but for everyone I know it’s non optional. My government requires an email. And for any site I want to use I require an email. Even Lemmy.

That sounds like the worst option of all. At least I can trust google has some protections in place to stop employees from looking at you email, because if they didn’t there would be thousands of cases all the time.

In your case, you never know who is looking. At any point a rogue admin can issue a bank password reset and just read the email

I’ve never heard of the term web hotel before. I’m guessing its web hosting

Woosh

Like radio then?

Also that always happens. You don’t always discover the best band but you are more likely to discover the ones that spend more on marketing

Good points.

Doesn’t larger storage mean that it lasts longer since it can better balance wear on the cells?

Interesting. Damm it. I was hoping to go back to gmail because its more convenient. But if it actually provides better privacy, then I guess I can stay :(