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In Russia now. Just successfully logged into my protonmail account over VPN. My guess is that if you're a protonmail user in Russia, you're knowledgeable enough
by cpursley 8y ago
In Russia now. Just successfully logged into my protonmail account over VPN. My guess is that if you're a protonmail user in Russia, you're knowledgeable enough to use a VPN.
- ucha 8y agoThe article says you can log into your ProtonMail account without a VPN. That is not an issue. Other Russian email providers would not be able to send you messages though.
- altmind 8y agoIt seems that secret blocking now only affects MTS and RT. There are alternative outbound channels in russia, for instance TTK, so protonmail may be available for somebody.
- runn1ng 8y agoAs the article itself states, problem is not with the frontend, but they block incoming e-mail to protonmail servers. Which is actually clever in a way, and smarter than just blocking the front-end. (And it shows another negative side of federated systems, like E-mail.)
- kybernetikos 8y ago> (And it shows another negative side of federated systems, like E-mail.) The obvious point of comparison would be with a centralised system, but I can't see any possible way that would be better than federated in a situation like this.
- protonmail 8y agoWe implemented some technical tweaks yesterday so that Russian users will no longer have any issues. Communications with Russian mail servers are also back up.
- cpursley 8y agoSuper! I can confirm that I can use protonmail without VPN in the glorious Russian Federation.