@jack I've been using ProtonMail mostly as a way to not contribute to Google (or any monopoly, where possible) and not depend so much on US-based services. Even though neither of these reasons have much to do with security, they are still starting to feel about as pointless as encrypted email.
I find myself flittering between "we should use a diverse set of tools for a better web!" and "fuck it, everything is hosted on servers owned by the big tech companies so what's the point".
@simonwoods I still think there's an argument to encryption for privacy so that your email isn't just a stream of mineable data for, say, Google. But using a privacy-minded email provider is probably sufficient for most. Sending secrets around is a whole other thing, and that article may be right about that part.
@jack Totally agree. I think the fundamental issue is the seemingly mainstream ignorance about how normal it is for anything you send via the web to be, basically, public.
Also realised how the Latacora blog is mostly aimed at devs. Heh, context matters and all that.
@hjertnes Yeah, that's what I was using before ProtonMail. I'd happily recommend both to other people, mostly with the hope of increasing diversity against monopoly.