Re:Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome
by cascom on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:28AM
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While your right that most end users just want it to “work” you have to wonder about informed consent.
Re:Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome
by Moru on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:26AM
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But people that has embraced it but later finds themselves in a different situation in life, needing to hide from a previous spouse realises a bit late how much information is out there now. Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't out to get you.
Re:Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome
by SiVal on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:52AM
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I find I can replace just about everything Google makes except for Google Docs & Google Sheets. I wish I could find self-hosted, open-source versions of those, which I would install on my own server. I can just use desktop apps and sync the files through my server with git or rsync when I'm the only user (but using multiple clients), but as you're saying about the general public, for sharing with friends and family, Google's solution works so much better....
Re:Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome
by ensignavenger on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @12:39PM
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Maybe LibreOffice online would fill the role? It is still pretty new, but showing great potential. https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/
Re:Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome
by SiVal on Friday November 23, 2018 @04:59PM
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Sorry I'm late getting back to this, but thanks for the suggestion. I hadn't heard of an online version of LibreOffice, so I'll definitely check it out. I really hope there will be a way to have the benefits of server-based word processors and spreadsheets without handing our private data to people whose business is profiling us.
If it's not what you want then it is overly intrusive and exceptionally hard to manage so you control just the functionality and personal security you want.
Most end users, I think, just want something to work and are happy for all the magic to just happen. When you embrace it a lot of what it does is very clever and very useful. Most people I know who have embraced it just find the integration fantastically useful and don't have most of the concerns the more technically aware people do.