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Many commenters seem to miss the most important point here. If users from Russia can't access ProtonMail - that's not that much of a deal. But if mail from Pro
by yakireev 7y ago
Many commenters seem to miss the most important point here.
If users from Russia can't access ProtonMail - that's not that much of a deal. But if mail from ProtonMail stops reaching Russian email addresses - @mail.ru, @yandex.ru are as common in Russia as @gmail.com - that's a big problem for ProtonMail and its users.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoThat is probably more concerning, although ProtonMail is not something I typically see outside of the HN crowd and similar. I met only one total stranger who gave me a ProtonMail email address.
- yakireev 7y agoI was considering moving to ProtonMail (honestly, not being able to send mail to Russian addresses is now a blocker), but if I ever do, I won't give you a @protonmail address either, because I won't have one. If you want to actually own your email address, it should be on your own domain. Then you can change your mail provider without changing your primary email address.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoI have yet to get told a personalized email address to this day. I want to make a shift to a personalized email domain, but I have yet to go through with it. I want a domain thats easily memorable and easy for almost anybody to type out.
- WildGreenLeave 7y agoThis, for me, is the reason why I still give out my personal @gmail.com address because people understand that. It is troublesome enough to explain people how to spell my name correctly, the last thing I need is that I have to spell the part after the @ sign too.
- ryanisnan 7y agoIf you're in russia and you're using an email address at a .ru TLD... you're doing it wrong.
- computerfriend 7y agoHow many US citizens are using a US-based email provider?
- ryanisnan 7y agoThe country of business is pretty important, but the point I'm making has less to do with that and more to do with control over a country's TLD.
- ost 7y agoWhat's the problem with .ru?
- ryanisnan 7y agoWell if the controlling authority of a TLD wanted to shut off a service, it's pretty easy to do that at the DNS level. There are other ways that a government can restrict access to a user (or group of users), of course. Still, if I were worried about being censored, I would try to make it as difficult as possible.
- Andrew_nenakhov 7y agoThe only reason ProtonMail is blocked is desire of Russian authorities to access contents of ProtonMail user's emails, which ProtonMail didn't consent to. Since the authorities have access to mail.ru emails, their wishes can be partially fulfilled only if mail.ru continues to receive mail from ProtonMail. So I'd bet it'll still work.