I’m a proton unlimited subscriber. Can’t recommend these guys enough. Customer support is always excellent, very capable guys no matter if you’re on Android or Arch Linux, these guys know their shit. They have a black Friday sale every year but for protonvpn, protonmail, simplelogin premium, 500gb storage. Everything e2ee, I mean, what can I say but they’re an amazing company.
I’ll second this one. I love Proton. It’s the only free service, other than the late Apollo, that I’ve ever decided to pay to upgrade just because I love it so much. It also happens to be well worth paying for imo.
As with any service, unless you build and host it all yourself, you’re ultimately trusting some one else with your data. However, Proton are generally very transparent and, as you say, seem to really know their shit. For those reasons I choose to trust their services.
All companies located in the west are not private. They have to operate according to the local laws, and those laws allows governments and agencies to get the data they ask for.
But depends on what you mean with private also. It’s private in a way that they don’t sell your data perhaps.
It really saddens me they changed their domain to proton.me it looks so wildly unprofessional and spammy while protonmail.com looked professional and even futuristic/scientific. Such a bizarre decision especially since everything else they do is so great
Yeah but if you go to protonmail.com it redirects you to proton.me and they also have the @proton.me domains be the default on sign up which means like 90% of users will be making proton.me email addresses
Its a small issue but it really irks me because otherwise its a great service/company with really well designed apps and websites. I just feel they diminished their brand so much with this. What company ever uses a .me domain? Especially when they have a really nice .com
Heres hoping the malaysian car (insurance?) company changes their name and decides to sell the proton.com domain to them lol
It makes perfect sense to redirect to proton.me now that they offer a suite of services. It would hardly make sense for all of google’s services to be under gmail.com as an example.
What? .com is generally around 10$/year and .me around 20$… In the grand scheme of things the cost of even the most expensive TLDs are inconsequential to a large operation like this.
Now if you’re talking about buying back a domain from someone, sure. But that’s a one time thing, and proton surely could afford tens of thousands of dollars if they wanted to.
I’m a proton unlimited subscriber. Can’t recommend these guys enough. Customer support is always excellent, very capable guys no matter if you’re on Android or Arch Linux, these guys know their shit. They have a black Friday sale every year but for protonvpn, protonmail, simplelogin premium, 500gb storage. Everything e2ee, I mean, what can I say but they’re an amazing company.
I’ll second this one. I love Proton. It’s the only free service, other than the late Apollo, that I’ve ever decided to pay to upgrade just because I love it so much. It also happens to be well worth paying for imo.
As with any service, unless you build and host it all yourself, you’re ultimately trusting some one else with your data. However, Proton are generally very transparent and, as you say, seem to really know their shit. For those reasons I choose to trust their services.
I hear a lot of criticism about them pretending to be private and not actually protecting user’s data
All companies located in the west are not private. They have to operate according to the local laws, and those laws allows governments and agencies to get the data they ask for.
But depends on what you mean with private also. It’s private in a way that they don’t sell your data perhaps.
That is nonsense. They actioned 1 legal enforcement which every company would have to do.
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I use Proton as well. Very happy with it.
It really saddens me they changed their domain to proton.me it looks so wildly unprofessional and spammy while protonmail.com looked professional and even futuristic/scientific. Such a bizarre decision especially since everything else they do is so great
So I was curious and I just checked their sign up process. You can choose between @proton.me and @protonmail.com.
Yeah but if you go to protonmail.com it redirects you to proton.me and they also have the @proton.me domains be the default on sign up which means like 90% of users will be making proton.me email addresses
Its a small issue but it really irks me because otherwise its a great service/company with really well designed apps and websites. I just feel they diminished their brand so much with this. What company ever uses a .me domain? Especially when they have a really nice .com
Heres hoping the malaysian car (insurance?) company changes their name and decides to sell the proton.com domain to them lol
They got the me domain originally for pm.me and probably just continued it with proton.me. Love my pm.me email
Same!
It makes perfect sense to redirect to proton.me now that they offer a suite of services. It would hardly make sense for all of google’s services to be under gmail.com as an example.
They are a lot cheaper. Maybe they didn’t want to pay for an expensive .com domain. The prices can be nuts, but usually only for short named ones.
What? .com is generally around 10$/year and .me around 20$… In the grand scheme of things the cost of even the most expensive TLDs are inconsequential to a large operation like this.
Now if you’re talking about buying back a domain from someone, sure. But that’s a one time thing, and proton surely could afford tens of thousands of dollars if they wanted to.