Remove dependance on google play services
Protonmail android app is dependent on google play services and that is obviously against privacy and security.
Users who removed/disable google play services or used vanilla "lineageos" without gapps cannot get the mail client work properly.
Google play services collect every possible piece of info about the user; location, body sensors, application usage, and every other possible thing. So telling the use to enable/install google services you compromise his privacy and security by 3rd party app which is clearly against the idea if Protomail.
I hope you can correct this and have no dependence on google at all.
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Jens Gabel commented
Hi guys,
please provide the app also on F-Droid.
Google has become evil.And why do you have to run google-analytics on this site??
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Pepe commented
I would also love to see a version that does not harass me for not having google services installed (that popup is really annoying) and notifications would be great too.
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Ahron commented
Any update? This was posted in 2016. If it was genuinely "planned" it would be done already...
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Raffael commented
Protonmail claims to be privacy first. How can you require us to install Google's spyware on our phones?
Please, provide the APK so people don't download random APKs from insecure sources!
Or even better, provide a bridge for Android so we can use our favourite mail client and don't have to use a different app at all.
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Anonymous commented
I am in the process of moving to ProtonMail, but having recently changed phone OS, this is really making me think twice! Unfortunate as ProtonMail has otherwise been great
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Wayne commented
I cant even open my protonmail app now without updating it. Where is the direct download for the apk?
Google IS the problem. How do we know you are true to your statements about privacy when you use one of the most intrusive spies in the world?Seriously, Google has been
getting fines from all over because of their practices. They don't respect anyones privacy.I liked the app, but I guess rhis is the end of the app. I am not going to give Google even more info than what they have already covertly gathered on me.
ID theft is a big enough problem in the US. If you really did go to MIT you would know this.
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Dam commented
Need push notifications without Google services !
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Anthonie commented
Hello,
The Tutanota app works very fine without the google system framework. It's available in the f-droid repository, so no dependency to Google whatsoever. It is imho more or less a (little) JOKE that Protonmail (security and privacy for the user??) when it depends on Google services. When Tutanota can, Protonmail should also be able to ditch Geegle dependency. I now use the slow protonmail mobile website login on my phone (Lineage/ViperOS without google system framework). I am thinking about moving all my e-mail to Tutanota...). -
Randolph Stanovich commented
Tutanota has removed Google dependencies on their email app. Why cant ProtonMail?
https://f-droid.org/en/2018/09/03/replacing-gcm-in-tutanota.html -
Randolph Stanovich commented
Tutanota has removed Google dependencies on their email app. Why cant ProtonMail?
https://f-droid.org/en/2018/09/03/replacing-gcm-in-tutanota.html -
Randolph Stanovich commented
Tutanota has removed Google dependencies on their email app. Why cant ProtonMail?
https://f-droid.org/en/2018/09/03/replacing-gcm-in-tutanota.html -
Randolph Stanovich commented
Tutanota has successfully remove Google services from their app, why cant Protonmail?
https://f-droid.org/en/2018/09/03/replacing-gcm-in-tutanota.html -
Jimmy Jell commented
F-Droid recommends to uninstall my application because it will be removed from F-Droid: f-droid.org package-Droid relies on the standard tools for verifying the signatures of APKs, Know more at https://www.brotherprintersupportnumber.com/blog/how-to-fix-brother-printer-offline-status-error-on-windows-10/
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Anonymous commented
+1. Please remove GAPPS depency and provide apk. many thanks.
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Dr. D commented
@65801207-the-protonmail-team Please re-open this idea for votes.
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Randolph Stanovich commented
The Pushy team answered some questions for me, here are some specifics:
1. Encryption for Push notifications? Pushy Pro plan uses plaintext MQTT to deliver notifications downstream to devices. Their Enterprise plan however is fully TLS encrypted in all communications to and from Pushy, including your servers to theirs
2. Opensource? The Enterprise plan Some parts of their service is open source, others are not. Mostly their client SDKs are open source (but not the core Android SDK)
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Randolph Stanovich commented
Use Pushy. It is a replacement for GCM but each app developer must manually embed Pushy in their apps. Pushy cannot itself be flashed onto a non-GMS phone to replace GCM.
Protonmail app development should support devices without GMS, you can embed the Pushy SDK in your app and it will work on these devices, instead of using GCM.
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Asif commented
In the fight for privacy why not open a page on Diaspora* or Mastodon and Delete your Facebook and Google+ page.
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S commented
Implementation or further work towards imap support for usage of clients such as K9 mail would be beneficial and would aid to the goal or removal of the dependence of google's push service.
im currently working on a temp. fix for getting notifications to work with nothing but fdroid resources and microg.
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Suggestion commented
As far as I've understood, the only usage of GSF is for push notifications.
My phone does not have GSF installed, and the only annoyances are the message on start and the fact that e-mails are not synced in the background. I see that this "feature" is planned, but it has been planned for almost 2 years. I think someone should definitely start working on it....