Zitat Countermail zu Protonmail:
2022
- Number of legal orders: 6,995
- Contested orders: 1,038
- Orders complied with: 5,957
Another alternatives to get in queue for Invitation codes
Edit: We have a long queue so it may take a long time to get invite codes in other ways than the main way, that another Countermail user gives you one invite.
We will not take on more than 20k users. So we have a queue for the invites. Sometimes, old Countermail-accounts do not pay their renewal, such accounts will be automatically deleted after 24 months. And then we get room for new users. Since we opened in 2010, it's some accounts every week that gets deleted (following the removal-rules we wrote above). There is no idea in sending several invitecode requests, this will just move down your request to the bottom of the Invite-queue. The reason for having a maximum limit of 20k users, is that we don't want to take on more users that we can handle; both for tech support reasons and funding reasons, we dont want to get dependent of any third party company for funds. Many secure email providers are actually dependent on funds from third party companies, read about one example below. Protonmail in Switzerland.
We believe that an independent company has more ways to control the whole company and the company policy, one reason is that we are not required to hire people from any big fund raiser, and we are not required to follow some special requirements created by a fund raiser.
We feel a bit sorry for the people who paid for their Protonmail accounts IF they thought that Protonmail.com could not monitor their own users IP-addresses, which they apparently can do, read for yourself:
https://protonmail.com/blog/transparency-report/
There are also claims that may indicate that something could be wrong with this provider.
We think it's important that for example whistleblowers should at least be aware of these claims*:
https://privacy-watchdog.io/protonmail-devs-do-not-use-protonmail/
https://privacy-watchdog.io/protonmails-false-claims/
https://privacy-watchdog.io/protonmails-creation-with-cia-nsa/
https://privacy-watchdog.io/protonmails-crowdfunding-equity-sale/
*Note: We have nothing to do with the domain
https://privacy-watchdog.io We received an email that informed us about this info, and that domain. So you have to make your own opinion/investigation about these claims. We could verify that some claims are true, but others claims are harder to verify.
Another coincidence is the fact that some companies in Switzerland (.CH) have a long time relationship with CIA. It started in 1970 with Crypto AG:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
Earlier we used to recommend Protonmail for users who could not afford to pay for an email, but nowadays we can not recommend ProtonMail until they have responded to the questions and allogations made on Privacy-Watchdog.io. We have informed Protonmail that they should answer/explain these allogations, so we will see what happens...