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Are private email providers worth it?
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this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2025
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Email is never private, even with encrypted email, headers give away metadata. HOWEVER, Tuta & Proton are not scanning your emails to market shit to you and train AI. That's the main advantage.
You can't know if they are not reading you emails to do anything. That is the issue. Because of how email works, we know that they COULD. And experience tells us that tech companies profit from breaking promises and laws.
Problem is where you send emails to is.
Yeah. That's ops whole point.
Except that proton released their LLM AI so maybe they will start doing that?
No they probably won't, proton is not a big enough company to train it's own large language model instead they are using already available open source models.