I keep hearing bad stuff about proton, but I don’t really get most of it. Could someone please explain all of the controversy to me. Lastly, what are the best alternatives to all of their services?

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    22 hours ago

    It depends on your threat model. The actual crypto portion of it holds up, at least until we have crypto-relevant quantum computers.

    If you want anonymization and PFS for basic messaging, yeah PGP + email isn’t going to cut it. But if you’re sending documents, for example, with financial or health data tied to my identity anyway, I’d take PGP with my own email provider over TLS to some tech company servers where it sits unencrypted any day.