I’m thinking on potentionally subscribing for an Unlimited with a student discount.
Are you satisfied with it’s current services? I’ve seen mixed reviews from ProtonVPN. Someone loves it, someone despises it. Also does Proton Pass offer any convenience benefits over Bitwarden?
It’s totally worth it, in my experience. I’ve been using ProtonVPN on all my devices for years now, which was the main service that got me on Proton. Every year that I stick with them, they give me 10 GB of extra storage space in Proton Drive.
I wasn’t sold on their mail, until I learned I can create unlimited aliases for websites. So for creating an Amazon account, it might generate an email like “[email protected]”, which will forward to my Proton inbox. Anytime I get an email sent to that address that’s NOT from Amazon, I know they sold my info, and I can close the alias anytime to end all junk mail going through it.
I just retired from the US military a couple years ago, and it’s been rather nice because our govt computers are so locked down, we weren’t allowed to bring any electronic devices into our offices, for fear that someone might steal classified information. Also, our computers were locked down so you couldn’t just install anything on them. You had to go through the IT guys to install things. That was my job in the military; I was the IT guy.
Now that I’m retired, I can actually use third party programs like Proton Pass to make complex passwords for everything. I couldn’t use it in the military. We had to use unique, complicated passwords for every individual account, and we couldn’t write them down. I’m super grateful for Proton Pass. It’s my first password manager, so I can’t compare it to others, like Bitwarden.
I’m not a huge fan of their calendar yet. I’ve been using Google and Microsoft Outlook’s calendars for years now, and I like that I can make my calendar events different colors, so I can differentiate between types of events real quick. I just logged into Proton’s calendar and was met with a pop-up stating that I can now use colors. So maybe I’ll adjust to using it.
I’m trying to de-Google myself right now, and Proton Unlimited is giving me the options I need to remove myself completely from Google’s stranglehold. So far, I’m proudly advocating it for all my friends and family, even if you just use the free account.
Calendar colors just launched on proton calendar. Still not quite a full outlook calendar replacement, but the individual color choice for events is one step there.
Yeah de-googling is a huge part of me considering Proton as an alternative. Wow I didn’t that you get loyalty extra drive spaces.
Are there other Calendar annoyances for you? One time the free Proton Calendar just deleted all the synchronized events for me for some reason.
The only calendar annoyance I’ve found so far is that I can’t add attachments to my Proton calendar. Both Google and Microsoft Office calendars let me attach files. Sometimes, if I’m attending an event or something, I like to attach the flyer with details to my calendar event, so I don’t have to dig through my email for the details. Right now, I can only type in a description to Proton calendar events.
it is, but don’t use their VPN, it’s vulnerable to tunnelvision
iVPN and Mullvad are the only two I’m aware of that are immune to tunnelvision
What risks would I face by using a vpn without tunnelvision immunity?
all your traffic being intercepted by a malicious actor that hacked a wifi router
It works as advertised, I’d say. The Email service works fine, no issue to date.
The VPN has the same issues as others, meaning some sites block some servers entirely, and others force captcha after captcha at you. There also was the problem with missing portforwarding options in the app (at least on Linux), but that is fixed now. Overall it works fine, never had too much of a problem with it, at most had to switch servers if my connection got blocked from the site.
The calendar is a calendar, end of sentence.
Proton pass is a bit weird. They don’t offer any desktop app, you can only use the website or the browser plugin. There is no benefit I could think of over bitwarden and I’d even recommend bitwarden more than proton for password management. But it does work without problems.
No idea about proton drive. Last time I used it you had to manually upload each item into the online safe. But from a quick look it seems like there is a desktop app now that offers automatic backups/uploads.
For me it’s worth it since even the recent news articles show that they keep their privacy promises. But I also got the money to spare for it. You could get all functionalities for less money and to about the same level of privacy, but it takes more effort and time. It’s for you to decide if the convenience is worth it.
There are better products for every service they offer. Tutanota. Bitwarden. Mullvad.
Only reason I use unlimited is because they have them all under one subscription for a reasonable price.
I think it’s overpriced and almost everything in it is a lesser version of other services. Like someone mentioned, unless you need port forwarding, there’s Mullvad VPN. There isn’t even folder sync for Proton Drive on Linux so you have to use third party tools and if I’m doing that anyway I’m using Backblaze. Bitwarden for password management. Addy.io with forward encryption turned on instead of Pass because the SimpleLogin interface and app runs like molasses for me and has a seizure if you have any dark mode extensions. And the integration is still not complete after all this time since Proton has ridiculously slow development times for what they actually produce.
Its good if you want everything served in one place and don’t want multiple accounts and services.
I pay for the email and use the calendar because I think the company is the most trustworthy out of a basket of bad options. If a better email came along, I’d be switching to them.
