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Re:Stop Using Encrypted Email by upofadown on Thursday February 20, 2020 @03:45PM (#22378435)
>For example a common enough way of doing PGP is to use a chrome extension that PGP-ifies your webmail.

You mean mailvelope[1]? That's a straight up plugin/extension. It gets installed once and is as secure as whatever is used to secure extensions on a particular browser.

[1] https://www.mailvelope.com/

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Re:Stop Using Encrypted Email by joshuamorton on Thursday February 20, 2020 @04:27PM (#22378801)
It's one of a number of options (gmail for example had an unofficial official one for a while, and there are other similar extensions). They still all have the same issue that the only threat they protect from is "my webmail provider is incompetent".
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