Proton Mail / Drive / Pass

Soid · April 17

I've been considering ditching gmail and google drive for a while, mostly because I want to de-google my life. I'm also planning on using a custom domain with my email, which generally requires a paid service (I was able to do this free in gmail, but it resulted in my messages often getting spam-filtered). There are any number of email hosting services out there, and the main thing I care about is usability. Gmail's automatic filtering of promotions, transactional emails, and social medial emails has been quite convenient. Outlook sucks, so I'm not doing that.

I also want to change my password manager, because they were acquired by a company I don't trust and because they've had a serious data breach, so I extra don't trust them.

Since Proton has all those things, and advertise good security features, it looks like a good option. Has anybody had experience with Proton? How was it?

flibberdipper · April 17

I've got the package that has the VPN, Mail, Drive, and Pass, and I think it may be a good option. I have the VPN Plus package (since I only really care about the VPN), and that gives me 10 VPN lines, 500MB of Mail storage, and 2GB of Drive storage, all at the cost of $4.99/mo. Only downsides is that for mail you only get 3 folders, 3 labels, and 1 filter... and for some reason you're limited to sending 150 messages per day.

You could also do the Proton Unlimited plan, which is $7.99/mo, and that gets you the same VPN plan, but 500GB of storage shared between Mail and Drive, plus other goodies like custom email domains, unlimited messages per day, unlimited folders/labels/filters, and you can use a desktop app for Mail.

All of that advert sounding shit out of the way, if I had to switch email providers from Gmail I honestly think that Proton's suite would be what I settle on, even though I'd have to pay a monthly fee to use it. The web UI is really solid and responsive, there aren't ads goddamn everywhere, and security isn't a concern for a good reason.

Snakehide · April 17

I am currently using Proton Pass after switching from LastPass a while back. Main benefit for me was that it allows me to use their mobile app for free and have all my passwords accessible on my phone, rather than paying for that privilege. Works really well on Brave browser, the mobile app is finicky and sometimes displays no passwords even though it should, have to go to the app's info, storage, clear data, and log back in pretty frequently. Other than that, no complaints. Looks and feels really good.