Comment on Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service

erranto@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• onion@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  there are many ways to monetize a service without rendering the free version legless

  Like Microsofts data collection for targeted advertising?

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• voracitude@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Proton encrypts and decrypts your data on your machine. The key lives on your machine and never leaves. Protein do not have a copy of your key because that key should not be shared with anyone, human or program, or it is no longer secure. In order to build the feature you’re talking about, that security would have to be broken. Not changed: broken. Made ineffective. Thus defying the entire point of the product.

  I recommend further study. This might be a good place to start: eccouncil.org/…/free-cybersecurity-courses-beginn…

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  • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    just let me encrypt my data locally. I don’t trust their obfuscated JavaScript to handle my encryption keys. Give me IMAP and I’ll use my good old client with my OpenPGP plugin.

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    • voracitude@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Your data is encrypted locally with Proton. Your second sentence is what you really mean, and I’m not saying you have to use or trust Proton, just that because of that local encryption of the data, third party apps can’t access the data.

      Your described setup takes knowledge (and patience!) which customers of Proton do not possess. If you do, Proton is not the product for you, but it doesn’t matter because you can build and maintain what you need.

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• Codilingus@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s in the works, paid users can test. Then it’ll be a free desktop client.

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  • erranto@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They have had desktop bridge app for years but it is only accessible to paying users.

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