trickster, 11 days ago

I personally suggest Tuta (and I use it daily) over Proton. Several reasons:

Proton:

1. it is leaky in terms of social graph encryption. Sun Knudsen has a great video about it (youtu.be/GdDFUycXR_M&t=0)
2. had this case about the climate activist (theverge.com/…/protonmail-swiss-court-order-frenc…). And since they position themselves as a privacy company, this looks disturbing.
3. I’d prefer a such a privacy oriented company to be more open to anonymous payment methods.

Overall, Proton seems like a little more privacy-conscious Gmail alternative.

Tuta

1. doesn’t use Google/Apple notification servers
2. encrypts more stuff than Proton

PS In both cases, emails are not end-to-end encrypted. Even though both are marketed with E2E encryption by default. Again, Sun Knudsen has a great video about the topic (youtu.be/G2Jh8bQ2wM8&t=501).

Also, as far as I remember, Proton is more expensive while having less features (the cheapest option) than Tuta.