Hydroxide was specifically created as a free replacement for the official Proton Mail Bridge, so no, it doesn't require a subscription
You can't compare that to China by any means. I know that American democracy is incredibly flawed (e.g. 2-party system, electoral college, etc.), but China is a straight-up dictatorship, and downplaying it doesn't fix any of the issues that exist in the US.
In some cases that's better than getting your data stolen by the authorities. Especially in a communist dictatorship like China.
Guess who nominated these SCOTUS judges at the end of his presidency?
Reason 91627 why you shouldn't go to this authoritarian shithole
But the US is not an authoritarian shithole (it's not a perfect democracy either, but it can't be compared to the Chinese dictatorship in any way), which develops its domestic industries on industrial espionage and stolen intellectual property. Unlike... China. The TSA doesn't get orders from the US government to steal trade secrets and other critical information from business people, in order to boost US industries.
That's exactly what I was thinking while I read this
I tried using Jerboa and found it to be incredibly buggy and poorly designed. Not sure what's going on there, considering that it's the official mobile app made by the Lemmy devs
Probably people who have been using Boost for Reddit before and now want the same experience but for Lemmy
It only works through the Proton Mail Bridge application, which is only available for desktop. That's because Proton's end-to-end encryption makes it impossible to access your emails while they are on Proton's servers via IMAP. They would need to be decrypted on the server, but that would make the entire encryption pointless. The Proton Mail Bridge connects to the server, downloads the encrypted data, decrypts it locally on your PC and locally exposes an IMAP server, which contains your decrypted messages.