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There is no perfect email provider. You cannot provide perfect service to a deeply flawed communication method. Companies like Skiff, Proton Mail and Tuta are good email providers, but not providers that make emails good. Each one has limitations.

These companies should intend to provide you a good service that won't sell you out and make an effort to see the least information they can while following their laws, and they use the encryption and security measures to ensure that. That is what makes the 'Encrypted' in encrypted email important. The end to end encryption for emails is a good bonus but if you're using it for your accounts... it's sadly not worth anything since none of these company sites will bother with encrypting their mail.

PGP is also a usability and implementation nightmare. Encryption should be the default and always.

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Diacone Frost 2y ago

At least the times with plain smtp is (almost) over.

Islamic Audiobooks Central 2y ago

What about #Autocrypt for usability compared to #PGP? Pretty easy to use with clients like #DeltaChat and K-9 Mail?

final [GrapheneOS] 📱👁️‍🗨️ 2y ago

They do their job by preventing you from having to timesink with doing all the encryption/decryption work.

My negativity towards PGP is towards how email encryption is not mandatory and we really need a better system than PGP if email encryption needs to be mandatory. That and there is better alternatives for PGP in other situations, like age for file encryption. I've found myself only using PGP for 3 people in my life.

These are two articles that discusses some PGP shortcomings:

https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem/

https://www.latacora.com/blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypted/