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Have I missed it or does this front page not say what this service is? I was looking for something like: “Mailvelope is blah blah blah...”

shakna 6y ago
> The browser extension Mailvelope provides end-to-end encryption for your existing email address. Seems like a browser extension for PGP encryption.
Boulth 6y ago
Yeah maybe it should be more obvious but Mailvelope just adds end to end encryption to existing webmails (through extension overlay).
yesenadam 6y ago
Yes, I think you're right. An explanatory sentence would be nice. In the FAQ it says "Mailvelope is a browser extension (in Firefox it is called an "Add-On", in Chrome an "Extension") and it expands the functionality of your web-browser. Mailvelope offers email encryption with PGP for the Firefox and Chrome browsers." which is quite different from what I'd expected!
thomascgalvin 6y ago
I really hate how product pages are made these days. You get four callouts - "Revolutionary Engagement!", "Insight at the Speed of Business!", "Continuous Introspection!", "Value Sharing Ethos!", with no explanation of what the damn thing is actually supposed to do.
dguaraglia 6y ago
This is such common thing nowadays, I'm not even sure how we got here. About 50% of the products (including open source projects) people pitch here have websites like this. I literally give up if I have to click more than twice to understand what a product is.
flanbiscuit 6y ago
The "Documentation" section actually shows you what it does (better than the FAQ explanation some have mentioned) https://www.mailvelope.com/en/help https://www.mailvelope.com/en/help It's free for personal use, but there's also some paid tiers. As far I can tell it looks like the only thing Mailvelope does that is outside of the extension/your-local-machine is host their own key server: https://www.mailvelope.com/en/faq#key_server https://www.mailvelope.com/en/faq#key_server Unless there's something also it does that I'm missing? FYI, it's open source: https://github.com/mailvelope/mailvelope https://github.com/mailvelope/mailvelope
moscovium 6y ago
> The browser extension Mailvelope provides end-to-end encryption for your existing email address. Seems pretty clear to me
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shakna 6y ago

> The browser extension Mailvelope provides end-to-end encryption for your existing email address. Seems like a browser extension for PGP encryption.

Boulth 6y ago

Yeah maybe it should be more obvious but Mailvelope just adds end to end encryption to existing webmails (through extension overlay).

yesenadam 6y ago

Yes, I think you're right. An explanatory sentence would be nice. In the FAQ it says "Mailvelope is a browser extension (in Firefox it is called an "Add-On", in Chrome an "Extension") and it expands the functionality of your web-browser. Mailvelope offers email encryption with PGP for the Firefox and Chrome browsers." which is quite different from what I'd expected!

thomascgalvin 6y ago

I really hate how product pages are made these days. You get four callouts - "Revolutionary Engagement!", "Insight at the Speed of Business!", "Continuous Introspection!", "Value Sharing Ethos!", with no explanation of what the damn thing is actually supposed to do.

dguaraglia 6y ago

This is such common thing nowadays, I'm not even sure how we got here. About 50% of the products (including open source projects) people pitch here have websites like this. I literally give up if I have to click more than twice to understand what a product is.

flanbiscuit 6y ago

The "Documentation" section actually shows you what it does (better than the FAQ explanation some have mentioned) https://www.mailvelope.com/en/help https://www.mailvelope.com/en/help It's free for personal use, but there's also some paid tiers. As far I can tell it looks like the only thing Mailvelope does that is outside of the extension/your-local-machine is host their own key server: https://www.mailvelope.com/en/faq#key_server https://www.mailvelope.com/en/faq#key_server Unless there's something also it does that I'm missing? FYI, it's open source: https://github.com/mailvelope/mailvelope https://github.com/mailvelope/mailvelope

moscovium 6y ago

> The browser extension Mailvelope provides end-to-end encryption for your existing email address. Seems pretty clear to me

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