Not exactly. But, for me at least, reliability of my mail provider is just as important as them respecting my privacy. There are alternatives that I trust just as much as ProtonMail. For what it’s worth I’ve been a loyal customer since the beginning and have been more than supportive of them (I even own Proton merch..), but from a users perspective all I’ve seen recently is them pumping attention into new product releases as opposed to finishing currently half baked products or making their systems more resilient to downtime (which I’ve noticed a lot more of in the last 6 months than since the very beginning). It’s hard to turn a blind eye and continue supporting them.
Looking at the protostatus history they indeed seem to have an unusual amount of (not too long, but noticable) outages (which I personally didn't notice as I read mails only 1-2 times a day).
My guess is they needed some major infrastructure changes which where at fault, maybe related to them providing additional services.
Or at least so I hope, as this would mean thinks get back to being nearly always reliable soonish.
Would be nice to hear about it from them, but then if my guess(hope) is right we probably only hear about it after it's fully done (at least that is what I would do).
I think the actual "problem" that this article brings up is German law, and ProtonMail in Switzerland would be no better from what I can tell (and I live here). From the article:
> Tutanota said it plans to appeal the November ruling from a regional court in Cologne, arguing that it contradicts an earlier decision from another German court.
> “This decision shows again why end-to-end encryption is so important,” Pfau said via email. “According to the ruling of the Cologne Regional Court, we were obliged to release unencrypted incoming and outgoing emails from one mailbox. Emails that are encrypted end-to-end in Tutanota cannot be decrypted by us.”
It seems like this openness of the CEO about the warrant and their actions taken indicate that they are trying to do everything they can without brazenly breaking local laws where they operate. "Unfortunately," if you use an email provider based in a country with a system of judicial proceedings and warrants this will always be a concern, and if you use one in a country without these things you instead lose any semblance of checks on these powers. They offer end-to-end encrypted emails that cannot be decrypted, and their clients have long been open-source to verify this unlike ProtonMail.
>>Does this resolution affect Proton?
This resolution is non-binding. On its own, it does not change the current EU framework but rather points the direction the EU may take in the future. ProtonMail is also protected by Swiss jurisdiction (Switzerland is not a member of the EU). Any request for us to develop a backdoor to ProtonMail under this hypothetical anti-encryption law would need to pass the scrutiny of Switzerland’s strict criminal procedure and data protection laws.
