Mullvad Using Gmail

From what I’ve seen that Simplified Privacy spams a lot, in fact I’ve deleted a few of their posts on our lemmy sub because they were prolific with the blogspam posts.

There isn’t really anything extraordinary about using Google Workspaces, it’s not GMail and has a entirely different privacy policy to gmail. Neither product “scan” your emails to serve you advertising.

Proton uses Zendesk for their support, and that isn’t E2EE. These emails are likely not used for anything particularly sensitive.

There are totally legitimate reasons for businesses to use Workspace, or MS 365 (like the ones we recommend), as there are fine grained access control options that “privacy providers” simply do not have.

In particular PGP encryption per mailbox, would be completely inappropriate in an organization where a manager might need to review what employees have been saying to customers, ie things like Google Vault. Another reason would be transfer of data when an employee leaves, or if they are fired etc.

That in itself is completely untrue, the logging policy relates to logging of what you’re browsing over the VPN, not if you’re asking support for help with payment processing, or to get connected or whatever.

That doesn’t prove anything, it’s just a whois record for the domain.

In this case they’re talking about the MX (Mail Exchange) records for the mullvad.net domain which indeed are the ones used with workspace.

TLDR: nothing to worry about, this is just more degoogling nonsense. If they were using salesforce or some other platform nobody would bat an eye lid. (Like proton doesn’t get strife for using Zendesk) or some other SaSS platform.

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