I ' m aware of the support I ' m giving to braille . He has several employees and teaches people how to skate . I haven ' t once heard about his religion on their channel . Only reason I know is because of an old ad YouTube is running lately for scientology that he is in . So I won ' t feel bad for supporting braille as long as the two remain separatehis business and his religion . And to finish , how many companies do you stop buying products from when an employee or owner is a sciotologist ? <| sep |> Same issue . Folks need to know that trusting third parties , ever , has these exact same problems , more or less . Defining safe versus unsafe just because of a service ' s ideals , or because of some pretty words that a given service put on their website , or because of which country ' s jurisdiction they ' re under , is a recipe for heartbreak , every time . That doesn ' t mean things are fucked . It just means that people should have this trust issue in mind , and if that ' s not sufficient for what you ' re doing with the service , or if it ' s not in line with your Threat modelthreatmodeling , then moving up to trustless solutions like running GPG or I 2 PBote on your own computer to secure your email messages is appropriate . Protonmail , Tutanota and the like literally have essentially zero benefit over basic webmail on Riseup against these kinds of presumed state coercion or hacking attacks see to understand whyhow . You still end up trusting the third party , every time . This is especially bad when it ' s a forprofit entity , because they have much greater incentives to cooperate with governments than nonprofit or community projects like RiseUp . However , that ' s not to say that such services can ' t provide some reasonable and useful benefits in certain situations remember , the name of the game isn ' t perfect security which doesn ' t exist , but rather just making things as expensive and annoying for The Man as possible . And Protonmail can certainly help do that , on occasion . Just don ' t expect the service itself to have your back .