Looking to leave GMAIL and am currently testing Proton for a $1 a month. So far it’s pretty good and the issue I have is not with Proton, but with who I’m sending messages to. If I send an email to a gmail account my information is still sitting on a Google server. So is Proton worth it? Is something like Fastmail just as good over all due to how email works? With Fastmail I can get email for my whole family for $14 a month. I won’t have the VPN, ProtonPASS and other Proton apps, but are they worth the $12 a month for one person?
You dont know how the sender or recipient handles your mail, but handling your own with encryption is still a good practice.
An email provider can have an entire database of all your emails (e.g. Google with Gmail), which more valuable than individual people or companies having access to only a few related ones.
There’s also PGP support with some providers, so you could set-up encrypted emailing with people if that’s important to you.
Either way, getting away from the big providers is a good move, I’d at least want my inbox encrypted though, like Proton or others do.
Fully encrypted email should have been made standard a long time ago.
It’s not how they handle the email that worries me. It’s how they handle the one time pad that does. They’d better be ready to eat that thing if they can’t burn it.