Maybe it's time to include ProtonMail's Android app

On April 23, ProtonMail has announced that it has finally open source it’s Android client app.

ProtonMail even said it will release its Android app on F-droid itself.
https://mobile.twitter.com/protonmail/status/1227622431914954756?lang=en
I hope you could speed up the process of including it to F droid"s repository

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Please see ProtonMail (#1323) · Issues · F-Droid / Requests For Packaging · GitLab.

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thank you guys. I say it here because have no account on Gitlab.

you do fantastic job
Protonmail has huge marketshare in FOSS world, that’s why a lot of thanks from us users

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Not sure why exactly, specially on the FOSS world this is odd, the whole bridge situation (not using open standards to access email, keeping emails hostage, rejecting PGP encrypted emails) and the fact that you actually give them your private PGP key should make anyone that values privacy for their email run away, right?

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Yeah, and there are also concerns that ProtonMail is CIA&NSA somehow.
https://privacy-watchdog.io/protonmails-creation-with-cia-nsa/
https://privacy-watchdog.io/truth-about-protonmail/

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this is @anon88801960 first posting

nobody knows who runs the site privacy-watchdog.io - it looks fishy. Please be careful

I still trust privacytools.io

As the site owner says, maybe it’s not about themselves but more about the information. You can check those links used for sources and reach your own conclusions.

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this is @anon88801960 first posting

So what?

it looks fishy

It’s not, the site is fine and the info is legit.

I still trust privacytools.io

You shouldn’t trust anyone, all information is welcome.

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Bonjour,

J’ai cru comprendre ici:

et ici:

qu’en 2020, le bridge protonmail n’a pas été ajouté sur F-droid car il contiendrait des dépendances à Google nuisible à la vie privée.
Est-ce que j’ai bien compris?
Est-ce qu’il y a du nouveau à ce sujet?

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Did you read https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-mail-android/issues/1 ?

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No i haven’t (now…yes, but not all)
I’m gonna take time to read it (so after holiday :smile:)

Interesting the apps scanner

I’m gonna take a little more time to better understood it too
(I am in a beginner level in python and it feel easy to understood)

Early this month there were great news for ProtonMail users:

In order to expand access to the privacy tools we develop (currently ProtonMail and ProtonVPN, to be joined in the future by ProtonCalendar and ProtonDrive), we plan to publish our apps on a number of alternative app stores for Android. A few possibilities are presently under consideration.
First, we plan to release our apps on F-droid, an open source Android app repository, which is today one of the most popular alternative app stores. In addition to F-droid, we are also considering a few additional app distribution channels (…)

[bold emphasis mine]
They didn’t capitalize the D of Droid :yum:

Like Tutanota before, this is a company that knows how to treat their customers.

I love it :two_hearts:

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Will the iOS also be Open Source?

An Apple’s iOS related question?
Wrong forum.

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it is the most popular private mail and opensource. it can be put on the platform.

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the app is not open source, it depends on Google proprietary libs, please ask team Proton to offer a flavor without those: Proton Mail Support | Proton

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You got someone better that I should payy email & VPN for?
O.o

Your own domain. The same way I have done it.
VPN, not going to comment on that.