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13 Apr 2022, 08:10 PM | #16 |
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I get what you are saying, and I've seen that too, particularly with big corporations buying small companies or independent developers with a great product. I think what's different here is that Proton is not Microsoft or Google or Apple. It's not some megalithic closed-sourced corporation with massive layers of management and thousands of shareholders to please, etc.. Proton is still basically an independent developer themselves and actually *very* small in the scale of things, especially when people bring up examples of big tech. They are also very much in the open source community side of things, which is overall a different culture than anything like Microsoft, etc., so there's just no direct comparison with those here.
Even a comparison to Fastmail buying Pobox is not a perfect example (although it's a better example than Microsoft vs Proton) -- Fastmail is *mostly* closed source and that's a specific culture difference. Fastmail is employee-owned (last time I checked) and yes, they do participate in the open source community with Cyrus and JMAP, so there are comparisons there. And I don't think Pobox suffered under Fastmail's ownership, except from what I understand, their customer support went down. However, Pobox has benefited in other ways, so maybe it's a wash for Pobox. So I get your point, and time will of course tell with Proton and SimpleLogin. You could be right. But I think in this case there's no red flags so far that will happen, but rather good signals about audits, security, infrastructure, integrations... that's pretty good stuff. I think they've also indicated that there will be special deals both ways, so that's good for the customer's pocketbook too. But who knows? Now if Proton stifles Son Nguyen Kim (the main guy at SimpleLogin), then that would be a red flag of course and I'd tend to agree there could be problems ahead. But as of April 2022, seems like it's a healthy match. Will cross fingers and stick with custom domains! |
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14 Apr 2022, 07:34 PM | #18 | |
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12 Oct 2022, 01:34 AM | #19 |
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So, I'm curious as to how reliable is email forwarding from services like SimpleLogin? I tested it out briefly awhile ago and the tests worked fine. Has anyone encountered issues with major services like Gmail or Microsoft blocking their forwarded messages? I was thinking mainly about emails at your own domain.
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16 Oct 2022, 02:51 AM | #20 | |
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The emails are deleted in 7 days". |
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16 Oct 2022, 03:00 AM | #21 |
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I've been experimenting with DuckDuckGo's private email forwarding and so far have not detected any lost emails, and they are forwarded very quickly--almost instantly. Of course, it is hard to know when you aren't receiving emails if it isn't something you were waiting for!
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16 Oct 2022, 03:03 AM | #22 | |
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16 Oct 2022, 03:20 AM | #23 | |
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16 Oct 2022, 03:36 AM | #24 | |
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16 Oct 2022, 04:01 AM | #25 |
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Only the duck.com domain. But it is short and easy to type, which I like.
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27 Mar 2024, 05:57 AM | #26 |
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So, I tested out SimpleLogin again and they have a very slick setup process for emails at your own domain. Still, I find the process for sending to a new contact a bit awkward, requiring a few steps. Much preferred the old POBox.com forwarding service that just sets up like any other ordinary email for sending and receiving via Gmail. Not sure what the advantage of using SimpleLogin aliases is vs. DuckDuckGo unless you need the aliases at your own domain.
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27 Mar 2024, 06:49 AM | #27 | |
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27 Mar 2024, 06:53 AM | #28 |
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There are many similar sites to simplelogin, like this one:
https://eml.monster/#pricing |
27 Mar 2024, 10:56 AM | #29 | |
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Apart from the weekly digest feature that stands out from the rest, I wonder how can it compete with the likes of say Addy.io which has the same subscription fee for their lite package. |
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