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Tell HN: Proton is reading and filtering incoming mail

4 pointsby reactchainabout 1 month ago
This seems relevant to privacy-conscious folks here:<p>I just tried to use my existing ProtonMail account as a backup for my Gmail account. Instead of receiving the verification code, I got an email in my Proton inbox that says:<p>&quot;Your Proton account is currently restricted from registering on third-party services&quot;<p>Meaning that proton is actively reading (and filtering) mail from certain flagged accounts. Otherwise, how do they know my account just received a matching email from Google with a verification code?<p>This is not particularly surprising for most providers, but I was not expecting it from Proton. What&#x27;s the point of all the encryption claims?

2 comments

nabla9about 1 month ago
&gt;What&#x27;s the point of all the encryption claims?<p>The point is that _you_ read them carefully. They are true to their claims.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;proton.me&#x2F;support&#x2F;does-protonmail-encrypt-email-subjects" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;proton.me&#x2F;support&#x2F;does-protonmail-encrypt-email-subj...</a><p>Va gur orfg UA genqvgvba lbh qba&#x27;g pyvpx gur yvax nobir, ohg nfx dhrfgvbaf yvxr &quot;Jul fhowrpgf yvarf ner abg rapelcgrq?&quot; naq gura fbzrbar rkcynvaf vg gb lbh.
Klonoarabout 1 month ago
Subject lines of emails are not E2E in Protonmail, nor have they ever claimed them to be.<p>It&#x27;s likely that and it&#x27;s not really news.