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Is there anything unsavory about ProtonMail? (beehaw.org)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For some reason I have it in the back of my mind that they were at one point accused of being a honeypot for US intelligence because of their association with MIT. Probably complete BS, but maybe not. Are they as open source as they claim to be? Looks like they're on github. F-Droid seems to think they have some Google libraries or whatever that they use.

ProtonMail users, how do you like/dislike it?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m on the edge of quitting protonmail. The issues:

#CAPTCHA hell. At least for Tor users.
no app in f-droid
API shenanigans and/or CAPTCHA breaks hydroxide (the foss bridge)
protonvpn: you can no longer fetch all the configs in one download. You have to click “download” >120 times now to get all the configs
account locks if you do not login frequently enough (i think every 6 months)
if you supply your login creds but get a CAPTCHA and say fuck this, and walk, it does not count as a full login needed to reset the expiration clock
the CAPTCHAs are graphical which forces you to enable images in your browser; but when you do that you get images that junk up your screen and waste bandwidth
no public keyring. Hushmail was better in this regard. An advanced user could upload their PGP public key to Hushtools and then encryption just worked for hushmail users contacting that person. After Hushmail started charging, I would tell the normies who need comms w/me to get a gratis Protonmail account. But then I have to send them my public key and they have to figure out how to attach it to my profile in their phonebook. It’s a show-stopper in many situations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For what it's worth, I think if you add the izzysoft repo to F-Droid (https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo) then you'll get the ProtonMail App; I think regular F-Droid has only the VPN.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Protonmail failed to satisfy F-Droid’s inclusion criteria because it requires gms (playstore framework) and because it uses Firebase messaging.

Since I’ve disabled gms in my device I’m not sure how Protonmail would work for me. Someone tells me I might simply lose push notifications capability. But I am confused because Snikket pushes notifications just fine on my device.