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Google confirms Gmail is “here to stay” amid speculation over plans to scrap the email service::Claims that Google plans to sunset Gmail were a hoax, so there’s no need to panic
*Indian government: hold my lassie
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/16/india-may-block-proton-mail/?guccounter=1
All it takes is that some services you use have mail hosted in India, and your emails might never reach.
They’re not blocking ProtonMail due to it being “not gmail” or any other recognizable domain or having a poor reputation, they’re blocking it because ProtonMail is doing what they promised to do and not divulging customer information to Indian authorities.
I suppose if OP lives in India then yeah that might be an issue but otherwise they’re still totally fine.
I guess it speaks more to the idea that there’s definitely people out there who look skeptically on a ProtonMail address. There’s a lot of people who know what it is and also hold a “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear” mindset and immediately assume the worst about the person with the ProtonMail address. Because of course, in their minds, if you have such an address, you surely must be unsavory and have things to hide. It’s not just autocratic governments who don’t like it.
On the contrary, I think it’s autocratic governments specifically that don’t like it. Which is more or less the point, in the same way that any service that uses encryption and doesn’t give up user info is something they won’t like. Otherwise everyone with a Mac, IPad or IPhone would be considered shady, which as we know isn’t the case.
The people who hold the view you mentioned more than likely don’t even know what ProtonMail is.
I don’t necessarily disagree, but I have personally met a few people who did know what it was and also thought it was very sketchy and didn’t trust it.
However, at the same time, I know how worthless a personal anecdote is in the bigger scheme of things, so you’re probably right that most people that hold that attitude don’t know wtf it is.