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Empowering you to choose a better internet where privacy is the default. Protect yourself online with Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive. Proton Pass and SimpleLogin.

Proton Mail is the world's largest secure email provider. Swiss, end-to-end encrypted, private, and free.

Proton VPN is the world’s only open-source, publicly audited, unlimited and free VPN. Swiss-based, no-ads, and no-logs.

Proton Calendar is the world's first end-to-end encrypted calendar that allows you to keep your life private.

Proton Drive is a free end-to-end encrypted cloud storage that allows you to securely backup and share your files. It's open source, publicly audited, and Swiss-based.

Proton Pass Proton Pass is a free and open-source password manager which brings a higher level of security with rigorous end-to-end encryption of all data (including usernames, URLs, notes, and more) and email alias support.

SimpleLogin lets you send and receive emails anonymously via easily-generated unique email aliases.

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Proton left Mastodon... (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Instead of leaving Xitter, they left Mastodon. Proton's trend is not inspiring confidence and this feels like another step backwards.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Posteo unfortunately doesn't support custom domains.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, for a reason. You have to register with a name and an address to obtain/buy a custom domain at a third party. Your identity could be traced back via this. This is against their very strict and consistent 'zero knowledge' policy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Hmm I don't agree. You can always sign up using a foreign mail provider with a domain privacy service.

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

Could you break this down in how that works?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I register a domain using a service in a country outside of the EU (since Posteo is German).
I also apply a "privacy protection" service, which means my data won't be visible in the public whois (the domain will be officially registered by the privacy service that I use).
I sign up to Posteo and configure my third-party domain.

This means Posteo doesn't know anything about me, and even if the police raids Posteo they can't find who I am.

Of course they could, in theory, find out who I am, but that means going to the provider that I used to sign up for my domain, which may be on the other side of the planet outside of German police jurisdiction.