@protonprivacy suspended my account as soon as I purchased the unlimited plan and sent an email asking how to change the recovery email as I no longer have access to it. I ended up losing both money and account along with all the data. This is outrageous!

Ticket ID: 3936861

#proton #privacy #opensource #foss #helpme #protonmail

I used to pay £23 for #Google and #Microsoft accounts per month, just to have cloud storage and #Office.

I've since moved to #Proton for storage, VPN and email (about £10). The money saved has gone towards monthly donations to #LibreOffice (365 replacement) and #Signal (#Meta#WhatsApp replacement) - both #FOSS.

What I'm trying to say, I guess, is that if you #LeaveBigTech - and can afford it - donations to the organisations that try to keep the internet free and private would be excellent.

@dangillmor
Dan, there’s a huge #degoogle movement here on Mastodon. There’s also the movement across Europe to get away from US-based digital services. @Tutanota frequently shares tables of options. I’m about 8 months into being free of Google search, thanks to the far superior paid #Kagi search. (Kagi Translate is also far superior to any other translation service.) I’ve replaced Google files with #CryptPad. #Proton just introduced their AI product, #Lumo, which is completely private. Their calendar product is steadily improving. Google’s power and influence are waning, as they should in a free market when better products emerge.

today i are mostly looking for reasons why i should not use #Proton Mail (probably Unlimited plan for VPN and Drive too; possibly Duo if my sister's still using her address on my domain too, which I don't think she is)

Existing mail: Gmail
Existing calender: iCloud
Existing VPN: None (but in UK so 🤬)
Existing drive: iCloud, Nextcloud (would keep both anyway)
Existing passwords: 1Password
Existing authenticator: Google

#DeGoogle

I used to pay £23 for #Google and #Microsoft accounts per month, just to have cloud storage and #Office.

I've since moved to #Proton for storage, VPN and email (about £10). The money saved has gone towards monthly donations to #LibreOffice (365 replacement) and #Signal (#Meta#WhatsApp replacement) - both #FOSS.

What I'm trying to say, I guess, is that if you #LeaveBigTech - and can afford it - donations to the organisations that try to keep the internet free and private would be excellent.

today i are mostly looking for reasons why i should not use #Proton Mail (probably Unlimited plan for VPN and Drive too; possibly Duo if my sister's still using her address on my domain too, which I don't think she is)

Existing mail: Gmail
Existing calender: iCloud
Existing VPN: None (but in UK so 🤬)
Existing drive: iCloud, Nextcloud (would keep both anyway)
Existing passwords: 1Password
Existing authenticator: Google

#DeGoogle

one unexpected barrier is that I would hugely miss @mimestream, the lovely, but gmail-only macOS mail app intended for iOS/iPadOS sometime too. But I'm starting to think I shouldn't let that keep me.

#Proton#DeGoogle

today i are mostly looking for reasons why i should not use #Proton Mail (probably Unlimited plan for VPN and Drive too; possibly Duo if my sister's still using her address on my domain too, which I don't think she is)

Existing mail: Gmail
Existing calender: iCloud
Existing VPN: None (but in UK so 🤬)
Existing drive: iCloud, Nextcloud (would keep both anyway)
Existing passwords: 1Password
Existing authenticator: Google

#DeGoogle

Tim Chambers
Al Ghaff
Jim Killock
Tim Chambers and 2 others boosted

'Apps offering virtual private networks… made up half of the top 10 most popular free apps on the UK’s App Store for iOS this weekend'

“We would normally associate these large spikes in sign-ups with major civil unrest,” #Proton said. “This clearly shows that adults are concerned about the impact universal age verification laws will have on their privacy.”
#OnlineSafetyAct#VPNhttps://www.ft.com/content/356674b0-9f1d-4f95-b1d5-f27570379a9b