@beardalaxy You're right. You can't 100% prove if a service is 100% reliable. You need to make an educated guess based on the terms of service, privacy policy, the history of the service, etc. I wouldn't recommend ProtonMail for the shear fact that you can't use third-party clients like Thunderbird which by proxy means you can't generate your own GPG keys if you want to send encrypted email. And ProtonMail has openly admitted to giving data to various governments. It's probably better than Gmail, but not ideal. I wouldn't recommend it if you were doing something like black/gray market trading.
Personally, I would recommend either cock.li (if you can get an invite), fedora.email (which is run by @sjw) or Posteo (which costs 1 EUR per month). However, if you have the technical knowledge, a spare computer, and a decent enough internet speed, hosting your own email server is the best option.
However, email is a fundamentally flawed system. It's probably the most insecure electronic communication system that is widely used today. XMPP+OMEMO encryption is probably your best bet if you want to have the most secure means of communication.
Reminder that ProtonMail is a honeypot and gives its data to governments.
https://theconsciousresistance.com/heres-why-i-am-breaking-up-with-protonmail/
Alaska has more ice than 100 years ago. The narrative is about to fall apart.
https://realclimatescience.com/2021/12/more-ice-in-the-bering-sea-than-100-years-ago/
Now Snow is trying to take down FSE. (cc @sjw ) Remember his old "Kathleen Solis" fake name? And if there was any doubt the shit before done by this "Kathleen Solis" was Snow, on the list of complaints is Snow's usual "THE ADMIN STOLE THIS SNOW GUY'S ACCOUNT AND IS SPAMMING PEOPLE!" Note the "hate speech against trans people" in the complaint, after attempting to post his "trannylist" ( https://freespeechextremist.com/notice/ADuFCbwWMiSRSmR3hY). This is exactly the same tactic he used for getting sites on the fediblock list, but I removed his account before he reported us. (Incidentally, everyone that's been complaining that I kill the driveby accounts posting that list, and everyone that keeps telling me it wasn't Snow can fuck themselves. He's trying to kill fedi.)
So, apparently, in addition to build-a-website@protonmail.com, he's using the email address reporting_cp_site@protonmail.com.
He did find some 3DCG stuff that I hadn't yet found and removed; we might temporarily have to unlist baraag stuff, I don't know. So mainly I'll have to exchange some emails with the datacenter, and possibly move datacenters, which we were probably going to end up doing anyway. No big deal. Snow can eat 50 dicks forever.
Here's the complaint, screenshat and copypasta'd below. Feel free to
"TuiCss is a library focused to create web applications using an interface based on ASCII table, like the old MS-DOS applications."
https://github.com/vinibiavatti1/TuiCss
@josh@kiwifarms.cc @josh@poa.st Why do you use that shit?