No. Unfortunately far too many supposedly “private” companies don’t support private notifications.
I really respect that Proton is trying to be the quick replacement for google stuff in people transition into privacy focused tech
But shit like this is why its loosing that edge.
“De google your life! But not too much because we actually use google a lot”
tuta app notifications work without google services, proton uses gms
Just saw this on F-Droid: You Have Mail: Email Notification without Google Play Services; has anyone tried it yet?
Yes I have been using this for a year now and it works great. You can customise the poll duration (how long it waits before checking for new emails) and the notifications have quick actions like mark as read and trash.
Signing in to Proton Mail with my username and password on this app made me a little nervous, are there any privacy concerns about doing this?
In a way, yes. The more things that have your credentials the greater the attack surface. However the code is open source, you could inspect it and build it from source if you’d like to. Additionally if you use a mailbox password then the app won’t be able to read email content as the mailbox password is used to decrypt the actual content while the main password is for accessing the account. The app doesn’t need your mailbox password for its functionality so it can’t decrypt email content (except the header which is not encrypted by PGP).
Thanks! 🙂👍
Sometimes people (like me) complain because they actually like something enough to want to make it better . . .
