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Proton Mail finally gets a desktop app for encrypted email and calendar (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] onlinepersona 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I guess they'll do anything but get their app on F-Droid.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

They will never open their apps. The whole business model of Proton is centered around user lock-in.

Who wants to bet they'll discontinue the IMAP/SMTP desktop bridge after the desktop app has been out for a while? At which point you will not be able anymore to use an IMAP tool to extract your mail and go to another service.

If you store a lot of email on Proton take a backup now.

[–] onlinepersona 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's my problem with these encrypted services: they lock you in. It makes me feel queasy, but at the same time, it ain't google or yahoo or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I agree. I have privacy concerns, but ultimately, I think I care more about freedom and open source. I have very real concerns about the rise of authoritarianism in America, and I'm trying to balance that against a preference for more open services like mailbox.org and fastmail.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Proton mail, proton vpn are on Fdroid

[–] onlinepersona 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Proton Mail is NOT on F-droid. Only Proton VPN.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wierd, I am in F-Droid and searching for "Proton" shows both apps for me. Maybe its on another repo?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you enabled izzyondroid

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Ha, I do have that repo enabled.