As the saying goes if it seems to be good to be true it is. But I wanted to be hopeful maybe just once more that maybe something could be great. Encrypted email with an unlimited sized inbox ?!!? Yes please !!!
Welp sadly it seems it’s once again to good to be true.
I made an account just to see how it was. I was immediately greeted with link to buy their premium for a year, using my initial email I selected. When I finally figured out how to say no I was able to use my “backup option” for free. I found this all too off putting. But no matter I wanted to keep going, maybe it’s just bad UI.
Moved onto my tracker test using a standard browser. And sadly it failed immediately. On the main info site atomic mail tries to use 6 trackers. Within the login / inbox they try to throw on another 3, one of their own scripts (maybe innocuous) and two from cloud flare. Those trackers are Google related !
For the privacy email they claim had no tracking I found this sinister.
I immediately deleted my account.
Unless someone can speak up to what those trackers are and why I shouldn’t worry I’ll recommend everyone avoid it.
what I said in the first sentence - I am assuming we’re in an adversarial position. if I know you’re out to fuck with my shit, guess how much of my shit I’m gonna entrust you? the equivalent of junk mail.
now it’s possible them guys are good people and whatnot, but until that is established beyond a significant threshold, any and all such providers get zero of my trust up front.
Guess me argument is if your going out of your way for privacy then you are looking to put something sensitive in it. If you didn’t care then having any encryption probably doesn’t matter
I’m saying I’m not gonna use it as an email provider, as in pen a love letter to to sydney sweeney, reminding her of the shit she promised me in my most recent dream and she’s kinda tardy so what’s up with that and so on.
I am gonna use it as a transactional email inbox, as in “you registered to yadda-yadda here’s shit you’re never gonna read”. and if in the process of using them it turns out they’re a buncha good folks, maybe I’ll elevate out reationship.
the trackings and whatnot are a) blocked by a buncha filters, b) gone when I close the tab with their url, c) they don’t get my PII, and d) they don’t get to store anything on my hardware.
way worse shit out there.