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Comment by mikece | Hacker News Reader

Too bad Fastmail isn't on this list: I really like their email service.

Fastmail is an Australian company. Granted Proton isn't based in the US either, but their whole schtick is privacy, whereas Fastmail is "just" a commercial email provider. Note I have nothing against them, just saying there's no particular reason for this US legislation to be in their focus.

They have a US office. Fastmail's "schtick" is that they very much support open IETF standards which I admire. Their CEO, Bron Gondwana, is a frequent participant at the IETF.

Disclaimer: I work for a competitor of theirs, but work with Fastmail folks on standards development.

Yeah, i half expected a bunch of "smaller" companies - like in the email space but not only email - to add their support as well. Would be really cool, if tons of smaller firms rally like mad around this, and make PR headlines to bring tons of attention to the lawmakers. Fingers crossed!

Don't they provide unique aliases? That's a competitive advantage over protonmail in case of surveillance.

ProtonMail purchased SimpleLogin which is a great email alias service.

i'd incidentally just learned about this a few days ago, posted here (with no traction): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32782944 , which in turn links out to https://simplelogin.io/blog/simplelogin-join-proton/

they have a limited free tier and a paid tier. i felt a little uneasy about the emails seemingly going through another set of servers (in plaintext?) for the filtering so i didn't sign up, but would love to hear other perspectives.

I absolutely love SimpleLogin. It is open source as well, so if for some reason the SaaS platform ceases then you can use a VPS. They support PGP encryption and hiding subjects too. They also have an open source app in the Fdroid marketplace.

Yes.

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