You don’t have to use their client (this is why I choose them over tuta) they provide a imap bridge (separate program to be installed locally). Works fine for me for the last few years. Just have to use their client on mobile but it works well enough.
I think the post was very naive but not actually a “I endorse everything what trump does” post. No one can know for sure but alternatives to proton are sparse and I didn’t see anything else like that after.
Alternative approach: I imported the mails to my new mail hoster and just archived the mbox files just in case. Can be done by installing a mail client temporarily to upload or some mail hosters provide an option to import from gmail (in my case that was proton)
Mh, yeah I see the possibility of using an open network in theory, but in practice I haven’t seen a open Wifi network in years (excluding business owned ones, but usually you need to confirm something there and can’t use them forever). So not sure how feasible that is. The more sinister option is done by Echo devices for example (that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Sidewalk), but also requires a second device nearby. Much more possible possible though, if similar devices are nearby. But that can’t be hidden anyway and it should be possible to check for that.
I feel like the best option to get the monitor network connected is still a secondary device and never using the built in firmware (and first checking if said device got things like you described).
A bit more technical details please. How do the connect to what? It sounds a bit like they can just magically connect via telepathy to their home base if you phrase it like that.
What? How would they do that if they are never connected to WiFi in the first place?
https://tuta.com/