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Proton services discussion (leaf.dance)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll start off by saying everyone's economic situations are just as varied as their threat models and how people make decisions on which services can be specific to themself and not one that can apply to anyone else. The services one chooses to use for free or to pay for may be based more on what they can afford vs what's the best broad reaching plan.

That being said i'd like to see what others think about the proton suit of services. I've been eyeing it as an option for a paid service for a while but am hesitant to put all my eggs in one basket. I'm interested in a vpn, mullvad seems to be the other popular choice. I'm also interested in email address anonymizing service like anonaddy. At $5 for mullvad, $3 for anonaddy, and $3 for base proton email it comes out to a dollar more than protons premium tier which gets cheaper if you pay for 1 or 2 years at a time.

As said above would the biggest reason not to use proton for all of these separate services be not putting all your eggs in one basket?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've been on the Proton premium plan for about a year and a half and love it.

I mostly use it for Email and the VPN, but I do use Proton drive for some random stuff.

I don't use Proton Pass because I already use Bitwarden for all my PW management needs.

Email and calendar services have been pretty much flawless so far. I like the interface, the Proton mail bridge works well for desktop clients like Thunderbird if you want to use those. The apps work really well on my Android device, all of them, Calendar, Mail, and VPN.

My torrent box Proton VPN CLI app has been solid too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Literally the exact same here. And I love this setup.

[–] sloppy_diffuser 2 points 1 year ago

Proton Pass is useful for aliases that don't count against your total addresses. Passwords go into BitWarden though.

I am annoyed it requires an app or browser extension though. No native web interface I could find.