alt Hacker NewsI've been very happy with Protonmail, you can even use your old Gmail address from within Protonmail [0]. Although arguable doing that is counter productive, you want receive gmails but reply with you new address -> Yes this is the time to buy a domain and own an address for the rest of your life, so you can move again with little pain in the future ;)
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I temporarily moved from Fastmail to Proton Mail, but found several downsides:
* Loading mails (especially when going quickly through them) has quite some latency. Possibly due to decrypting.
* Search is pretty bad compared to Fastmail.
* The keyboard shortcuts seem to never work correctly.
So I went back to Fastmail for mail (we still use Proton Drive, which has its own set of warts).
My notes say: No IMAP or other way to export emails, they're trapped in the service. CEO is a Trump supporter.
> Yes this is the time to buy a domain and own an address for the rest of your life
My problem with protonmail (and telegram) is that in my country, only scammers use those two services. So when I encounter these, I immediately distrust the person I'm interacting with and assume the worst. Even my one neighbor uses it and I distrust him immensely as he is not tech savvy yet he uses proton... its strange. How does he even know about it? He and his wife are not forth coming about what they do for a living, they seem to be nice people, but they both use proton. In our country its a huge red flag.