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I've been subscribed to Proton Unlimited for a little while now and enjoying the services, but I also want to know what made other people choose Tutanota or Posteo over Proton. Was it cost? Transparency/security stuff? Location data is held? I'm exploring a lot of things in the privacy space and seeing what else is out there. Wanted to create this thread as a more recent post people could look at as well.

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[-] leadore@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I went with Posteo and have been happy with it. The only meaningful advantage of Tutanova and Proton that I'm aware of is the encryption, but that only works if the person you're communicating with also uses their service, so I figure what's the point? I've also heard of various problems people have had with with both of them. And, at least at the time I checked, you had to use a browser or electron interface to access them though their own UI. With Posteo I added the account to Thunderbird and I access it through SMTP via TB's mechanisms (e.g. auto-checking every X minutes and popping up a system notification when there's a new email) just like with my other email account.

Something that has made Posteo pretty appealing to me so far is how flexible its pricing is. I get to pay for more feature when I need more stuff.

[-] leadore@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it's also easy to pay for several months ahead at a time, and they don't keep your personal info.

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