Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an Almost All-EU Stack (and Saved 500€/Year)

Re:Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an Almost All-EU Stac... by kertoip_1 on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @07:09AM (#46432510)

But you still can use Thunderbird for that. I recommend it no matter what mail provider is used. Web interfaces are so heavy nowadays, compared to that, Thunderbird feels so fast.

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Re:Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an Almost All-EU Stac... by illiac786 on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @08:13AM (#46433016)

yes, so I can search my emails solely on my laptop if I install proton bridge and synchronize 50GB of emails. And in case you have ever tried to search 50GB of data with thunderbird, it’s slow.

I tried synchronising the data directly in the browser, without any email client and the search is mediocre and slow.

This is not a great experience for search.

But again, it’s not a critique of Proton, it’s just how it is with E2EE. At least it demonstrate they are really doing E2EE.

I still hope some time in the future homomorphic encryption will help, but I think we are at least a decade away from that.

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Re:Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an Almost All-EU Stac... by zelphirkalt on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @07:16AM (#46432561)

Until some time ago they prevented users from using Thunderbird for Protonmail though. Well, good that now it is possible!

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Re:Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an Almost All-EU Stac... by zipy124 on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @07:53AM (#46432843)

You've been able to use it since 2017 on Windows and 2020 on Linux, so only about 8 and 5 years respectively.

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