Articles exploring privacy and security in modern email, including data protection, tracking, encryption, breaches, and how design decisions affect user trust and long-term control.
Email Providers
Free email feels effortless, but the real cost often shows up later. This piece explores the hidden trade-offs between free and paid email — from incentives and lock-in to control, privacy, and long-term trust.
Security and Privacy
Email breaches are inevitable. What matters isn’t whether your provider gets hacked — it’s how much damage is done when it happens.
Why many marketing emails force a binary choice — and how unsubscribe-only design mismatches what subscribers actually want.
DuckDuckGo Email Protection adds a privacy layer to your inbox by forwarding email while blocking trackers and reducing spam — without replacing your existing email provider.
Proton Mail
Updated Jan 2026 - A practical guide to Proton Sentinel — Proton’s enhanced account protection that helps detect and respond to higher-risk threats.
Product Updates
Proton Pass adds secure file attachments, letting you save documents and files with your stored passwords and sensitive items securely.
Security and Privacy
A practical guide to using YubiKey and other security keys with Proton Pass for stronger two-factor authentication.
Email Providers
A detailed, practical look at Proton Mail — how its encryption works, what features it offers, and whether it’s right for you.
Security and Privacy
After more than a decade with Gmail, I switched my email to Proton Mail for better privacy and to stop my inbox from being scanned for ads. In this post I explain why.