email for commissions?

[shapezncolourz]

as the title says, i'm looking for a new email provider that isn't google for communication purposes, largely for freelance work as i plan on opening art commissions over the summer. however, the main free options i've looked at (disroot and tuta - i haven't looked at proton as i've heard about privacy concerns ) do not allow their free services to be used for this purpose.

does anyone have any options? i don't need boatloads of space, i don't intend on signing up for anything with this email and i can't imagine i'll be using it very often...

[Yoylecake420]

Proton Mail is a great alternative that I have used. It has a priority on privacy.

[shapezncolourz]

Proton Mail is a great alternative that I have used. It has a priority on privacy.

are you sure? i heard they gave some personal emails to the fbi or something like that not too long ago

[sokil]

are you sure? i heard they gave some personal emails to the fbi or something like that not too long ago

ugh, quite frankly, this is lousy fearmongering and it's annoying that this story keeps going around. proton complied with turning over contact information, such as email addresses and aliases, to the fbi because the warrant, which a swiss court also treated as a binding legal order, was for an actual crime being committed (and threatening election officials, if this is the case you're referring to, is considered a crime in both the united states and switzerland. if you want to, you can even look through the warrant). look at telegram if you want another example (though, arguably, telegram was never truly private). proton never turned over the contents of the suspect's emails, which shows they stuck to their values. privacy does not inherently make you anonymous nor does it make you immune to the legal system, and proton makes it very clear that they do not tolerate their services being used for illegal activity.

you can read through proton's privacy policy to get a better understanding. there's also proton's transparency report page.

[shapezncolourz]

ugh, quite frankly, this is lousy fearmongering and it's annoying that this story keeps going around. proton complied with turning over contact information, such as email addresses and aliases, to the fbi because the warrant, which a swiss court also treated as a binding legal order, was for an actual crime being committed (and threatening election officials, if this is the case you're referring to, is considered a crime in both the united states and switzerland. if you want to, you can even look through the warrant). look at telegram if you want another example (though, arguably, telegram was never truly private). proton never turned over the contents of the suspect's emails, which shows they stuck to their values. privacy does not inherently make you anonymous nor does it make you immune to the legal system, and proton makes it very clear that they do not tolerate their services being used for illegal activity.

you can read through proton's privacy policy to get a better understanding. there's also proton's transparency report page.

thanks for letting me know!! i never knew all the details but the way it was talked about made me think it was a much smaller offense + they were giving actual contents of emails

they seem to be my best option then, gonna go make an account with them now :3

[arcus]

proton complied with turning over contact information, [...] to the fbi [...] if this is the case you're referring to,

There's been multiple occasions where Proton have handed client's personal details to authorities. The most notable case was in 2021 to French authorities, when their front page said:

By default, we do not keep any IP logs which can be linked to your anonymous email account.

When the case got media attention, they removed the above quote, and updated their privacy policy to remove this line:

no information is required to create your secure email account,

Ars Technica has a more critical article on the situation, while SWI swissinfo has a softer stance.


More recently, they've been criticised over political statements made by the CEO.