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Comment by sagolikasoppor | Hacker News Reader

Google being google. Its funny that once I used to lookup to this company and now I view it as a threat to society.

"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight

It's funny that I really appreciated Google when I first signed up for Gmail. Now that I've had it for 16 years, I resent the fact that I can get deplatformed for any reason, and there's really nothing I can do to prevent that.

export all of your email to Protonmail and stop sucking on that Google breast

I'm seriously considering it, but I'm a heavy IMAP user. When you enable IMAP in ProtonMail, it's no different than any other mail provider, security wise.

This is the dilemma for me.

Other people have made good points. Just wanted to add: you'll feel better knowing you're no longer vulnerable to Google. It's a nice feeling of relief knowing Google could cancel my account tomorrow and I wouldn't be hurt in any substantial way. Definitely worth the effort to move your email to an independent provider.

Technically no different but you have cast a small vote to behavior you no loner tolerate or support (socially). Even if it’s a fraction of a dollar. In aggregate they add up.

That's another point to look at it, you're right.

I used to be also but now use the protonmail app on my phone. And this on my desktop https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail

I don't think you can connect to your email via IMAP without ProtonMail Bridge (which encrypts traffic between your email client and ProtonMail).

AFAIK you bypass 2FA when you use IMAP. I don't see many advantages of using Proton (over any other independent e-mail provider) without 2FA.

The thing is, I connect all my accounts to a single mail application and handle everything from there, including their automated backups for ~15 years or so.

The jury is still out for me, we'll see.

It is for this reason I am moving away from ProtonMail to Migadu. Literally any IMAP-offering email service would do. All that we need is a custom domain.

buy your own domain and only use the email addresses you fully control.

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