100%. it's SO annoying to remember passwords especially when my phone doesn't auto save them 50% of the time because it doesn't feel like it.

It's called the Googleverse.

Many people don't know the difference between the Google search bar and the URL bar anymore.

It does need a PGP integration.

I mean I know why it won't, and never in Gmail, but we do need it.

I agree.

I guess most of these people don't understand the difference between the protocol/server and the client software, and most of those use the web ui anyhow.

I also think labels are the right way to organise emails. It was pretty unique at the time, and I think it still isn't common.

And frankly, I like gmail's interface more than Thunderbird's, for example.

Fun fact: Fascism is not thinking republicans will do better than democrats in pursuing antitrust battles against big tech for the benefit of smaller businesses.

Please don't use this word at random, plenty of people in my country (and many others) died fighting fascism.

It's ridiculous how user data has become such a big commodity.

I never quite understand why people use Proton. It just automates the exchange of PGP/GPG keys, but only if the other person also uses Proton, right?

Anyhow, +1 to paying a small amount of money for email. I was with posteo.de myself for many years. I heard mailbox.org is even better/safer and has slightly more features. Both start at 1€/month.

BTW, I set up an eternal redirect email address a long time ago, so I can change the actual provider without having to tell all my contacts.

Used it for years now, 100% worth the money and the bundled cloud storage and vpn are both great.

Absolutely not, Proton’s CEO went on a rant about how he loves Trump. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s all funneled to his dad Putin. I’ve been looking for Proton thats not Proton

Some food for thought, (excerpt from Louis Rossmann's reply to the top pinned comment):

"with regards to products: if you want to only buy shoes, razors, cars, caulking materials, etc, made by companies & people who support all of your political beliefs, you're going to lose that game very fast. you will waste your life doing the following:

1. researching every item you buy to death
2. making these items yourself once you realize it's impossible to find each item you want made by someone who mirrors your ideology
3. give up & live in a cave

The moment you go down that road of throwing away software products and services because they are made by people whose political beliefs do not reflect yours, you are going to end up living in a cave. That is a lonely world. It doesn't even work!! People who bought the Tesla Model 3 a few years ago would have Ford F-250 Turbo Diesel drivers speed up in front of them and roll coal in their face. And now that same person is getting called a Nazi!!!

the political beliefs of the software i use are irrelevant to me. They only become relevant when these questions arise:

1. does it stop me from using the software the way i want?
2. do their political beliefs keep them from being able to make a functioning product?

for gnome, #2 is yes. gnome was bad 10 years ago,it was bad 5 years ago, and it's bad now. i used gnome for a very short time period earlier in 2024 out of morbid curiosity. my machine had 128 gigabytes of ram, rtx-2080, threadripper 2950x processor and gnome still lagged. XFCE just worked! on top of that, gnome sucked to use. i am not using gnome: whether it's "woke" or "anti woke" or whatever else.

if we're at a point in the world where we choose our web browser by the political views of its programmers... we're screwed"