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Monorepo hosting the proton web clients

27 mentions on Hacker News by 25 people: 2 stories, 25 comments · first 2016-03-17 · latest 2026-04-03

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  1. …[0] https://github.com/ProtonMail/android-mail [1] https://github.com/ProtonMail/ios-mail [3] https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients
  2. …GPLv3 although I don't personally know what the self hosting story is like if they were to rug pull https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients/tree/proton-pass%40... https://github.com/protonpass/android-pass/blob/1.26.1/LICEN...…
    comment by mdaniel · 2024-10-20 · in Bitwarden is no longer free software
  3. This is their monorepo for their clients, including Proton Drive: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients
  4. …open source and the uploaded source code[1] often lags behind by months (currently 3 months). [1]: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients
  5. …all this is happening? I think a lot of folks on HN won't be convinced otherwise. Take a look at https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients/blob/main/packages/... , for example. Though to be honest, if you want to verify that we aren't…
  6. …architecture They sure do enjoy writing that sentence without including any hyperlinks. This ( https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients/tree/main/applicati... ) appears to be the browser extension and https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient…
  7. …[0] themselves to wherever (as one example, this is something that TermPair implements [1]). [0] https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients [1] https://github.com/cs01/termpair/#static-hosting
  8. …version of the web client so you can pin a version and audit the code as needed. I think maybe https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient is that for ProtonMail? If so, you should be able to verify that code and then use that. The fact that…
    comment by smarx · 2021-08-09 · in Messaging and chat control
  9. …has resisted implementing it (unlike Posteo, for example), using FUD tactics to justify themselves: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient/issues/120
  10. …for their frontend (as they do not have any security disclosure contact possibility as it seems): https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient/issues/242
    comment by cookiengineer · 2021-05-29 · in ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login
  11. …[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/8dqk5n/protonma... [3] https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient/issues/120
  12. …they tend to be... Brittle. [0] https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/download-publi... [1] https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient
  13. Protonmail's email encrypted in the browser! Their client is open source: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient It is main reason to use ProtonMail over Gmail.
    comment by wildduck · 2019-09-10 · in Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Returns
  14. https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient (I don't think they have an open source version of their server, but the web client is OSS and versioned)
    comment by ravenstine · 2019-06-10 · in ProtonMail v3.16
  15. …never thought about this but strangely it makes sense. It seems ProtonMail frontend is open-source: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient
  16. Proton Mail uses angular1 though https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient , pretty old
    comment by 11235813213455 · 2018-09-24 · in Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?
  17. …3. You can run the web client lcoally if ProtonMail itself is part of your threat model (github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient) and the rest of the clients (mobile and bridge) are working on open sourcing soon (mostly library/API version updates
    comment by bartbutler · 2018-07-25 · in Address Verification and Full PGP Support
  18. For the first question: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient For the second, it is unlikely, spying on third party app is not in the ToS of android, and if google (or any big tech company, really) is caught doing something not in the…
  19. https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient
    comment by scandox · 2017-10-23 · in Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail
  20. …you have to trust that what they opened is what they run- but the foundations seem solid at least. https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient
  21. …new email protocols, Protonmail is just a centralized service, and only its client is open-source: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient
    comment by ycmbntrthrwaway · 2017-01-21 · in Lavabit Reloaded
  22. This all seems to be a web-based application ( https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient ). How are the security issues regarding knowing that you're always running that code and that the server isn't compromised and sending altered code?…
  23. …software, funded by the community, and open source." and jumped to GitHub to search. As stated in https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient/issues/5 , the only open source part is the JavaScript based client, so you can't self-host…
  24. …web client is open source and MIT licensed. For more security it might be worth running it locally: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient
  25. GitHub repository: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient
    comment by nikolay · 2016-03-17 · in ProtonMail is Open Source (2015)