As much as I like using Proton Mail and VPN, their current offerings have grown exponentially in size.
I would highly recommend anyone here to not put all their eggs in one basket. Proton can and has in the past disabled user accounts for no reason. This means that you will lose access to everything you use with them.
Only use Mail or VPN and use other services for other needs.
- Mail -> Tutanota
- Calendar -> Tutanota
- Drive -> Just make a NAS. I don’t trust any provider with file storage.
- VPN -> Mullvad
- Pass -> Bitwarden or Keepass
- Wallet -> Don’t buy crypto
- Docs ->
OpenOfficeLibreOffice - Sheets ->
OpenOfficeLibreOffice - Authenticator -> Aegis or Ente Auth
- Meet -> This is fine.
- AI -> Run something locally
Email is effectively a trash heap at this point. Pick your poison. If you’re doing sensitive communication over email you shouldn’t. I don’t think I’ve sent a single real person an email outside of work in 15 years.
I find services like Mozilla Relay useful, and you could self host something like Simple Login for a similar service.
Email and sensitive info is unfortunately a must for me. To mitigate it I upload docs on internxt and send the link instead. Pretty OK solution. Like having own domains as well to filter a bit