I’ll start off by saying I get where the push back is coming from. I heard some of the sub-human things the CEO has said. But I’ve been looking at the competition and I’m not seeing any instant winners.
I get anger I get having morals but constantly changing emails as your main is exhausting. the features Proton offers for me have always worked and worked great.
My question is outside of being a typical CEO AI shareholder simp, has Protons security protocols lapsed ?
What other options ? Particularly ones with generous free tiers.
I’m sure this will get downvoted to hell but I need to ask …


Your option is to buy a custom domain and use that for your email, regardless of hosting.
That way, no matter what issue you have with an email hosting company, you can always walk away and lose nothing.
2+ years ago I DeGoogled, bought a domain, and thensigned up for Proton. Which has been great, actually. But I don’t trust them to be great forever. I made that mistake with Google and learned my lesson. Nothing is permanent, not you and not your email hosting provider. Just ask Outlook users.
What’s wrong with Outlook email? I’ve been using it for decades.
Not yesterday you weren’t