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Re:Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' P... by lucb1e on Thursday March 05, 2026 @05:48PM (#47268329)
> unless the recipient is also using protonmail

Or any similar service from another vendor? Or hosts their own email. If someone using Protonmail emails me, their data is also not getting sold for example, it's just stored on my laptop

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Re:Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' P... by wolvoleo on Thursday March 05, 2026 @07:29PM (#47269161)
Even if it's another self hosted service, proton still needs the plain text in order to send it to them with transit encryption only.

Proton does have interoperability with PGP/GPG but very few people use that because of its UX.

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