But is privacy important enough to convince people to move?
“Will people move from Gmail to Skiff for privacy concerns?
Will that make a significant difference to Gmail’s domination of the email market?
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“Dragos Badea, founder ofhybrid work company Yarooms, told Lifewire via email.
Open Letter
First, the privacy angle.
Unlike most email service providers (ESP), Skiff protects all your data with end-to-end encryption.
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Compare this to Gmail, which reads your email to get to serve you relevant ads.
Not only that, but any emails sent between Skiff users remain encrypted throughout their journey.
Then again, maybe nobody cares.
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Thats not quite the whole story, though.
This encryption model only protects you within Skiff.
Email is an insecure medium and sends all emails in plain text over the internet.
Thats just how email works.
For real privacy, you should ignore email and use something like Signal or iMessage instead.
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But privacy at the ESP level is still not nothing.
Theres no centralized place that can comb through your email for sensitive and valuable data.
It also signals that the ESP is serious about your privacy.
Added to that, the project isentirely open source.
Users of the free plan get 10GB of storage.
Later, Skiff plans to add paid tiers with more features for paid accounts.
Email remains utterly essential, but it is also completely unsuitable for the modern world.
It was conceived in a time when all users were trusted, so it needed no protection.
Now, we have spam, phishing, and various other scams.
Wererightlyafraid to click links in email, and yet we use it to send links all the time.
