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Paying for Proton's services is a no brainer to me. $11 a month for access to VPN, encrypted email, encrypted cloud storage and more. Will gladly pay to not ha

Paying for Proton's services is a no brainer to me. $11 a month for access to VPN, encrypted email, encrypted cloud storage and more. Will gladly pay to not have my data shared with 772 3rd parties.

izzydata 3y ago
I'd rather pay hundreds of dollars for software upfront than a monthly subscription. But I'm still considering paying for the cheapest Proton option.
- moose44 3y ago
  I agree. I utilize the annual plan so it's a bit cheaper.
- protonmail 3y ago
  You can also pay for Proton's services yearly and bi-annually: https://proton.me/mail/pricing https://proton.me/mail/pricing
  - izzydata 3y ago
    By monthly subscription I mean any subscription. An annual subscription is still a subscription. I want to pay for a perpetual license and never pay again. Unfortunately that would be difficult for an ongoing live service such as email.
moose44 3y ago
Nextdns.io is a great (free) addition to this.
- rekoil 3y ago
  NextDNS Pro is also €25/year. Super reasonable and ridiculously good product.
  - moose44 3y ago
    Agreed. I don't make enough queries a month to need a pro account but would gladly pay if needed.
    - rekoil 3y ago
      My network makes 3,401,347 queries in a month, that's more than 11x the limit, but regardless, the price is so reasonable that even if I didn't exceed it I couldn't really motivate not paying when the service is as good as it is.
      - moose44 3y ago
        With that many queries, do you utilize the business tier or just the pro? Asking because I'd like to get this service on my company's computers.
        rekoil 3y ago
        Just the Pro, but this is my home network, it's just that I'm a Pro user hehe.
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tailspin2019 3y ago
Agreed. I just switched my personal email over to Proton after already using them for my business email for a year or so. The webmail is slick (and refreshingly simple) and I'm really liking their iOS Mail app which is a huge improvement from the old version from a year or two ago. Hope they continue to invest in Calendar and Drive (encrypted storage) - both need a bit more work, but are usable enough for now.
- moose44 3y ago
  I concur. I also enjoy the ability to create alias emails. I do use a mail forwarding service but it's nice to be able to split things up.
- protonmail 3y ago
  We definitely will! Happy to hear that you are relying on our services for your business.
WithinReason 3y ago
They recently added automatic mail forwarding, so I pulled the trigger as well.
thesuitonym 3y ago
Let me start by saying that I don't think Proton is a bad company in any way, and I have no evidence of any kind of malfeasance, but I still must ask... Do you have an exit strategy if Proton goes the way of Microsoft or Google? Those two only had apathy and inertia keeping people in their ecosystem, but Proton kind of has you locked in, because you can only use their proprietary apps to access encrypted emails. Yes, I know you can use IMAP, but my understanding is that any email sent via IMAP isn't encrypted, and any encrypted mail can't be downloaded via IMAP. Either way, just because they have IMAP turned on today, doesn't mean they won't turn it off tomorrow in the name of security.
- protonmail 3y ago
  We'd like to point out that you can connect a custom domain to a Proton Mail account, which would make you eventual migration easier. Additionally, we also offer a free email export tool: https://proton.me/support/proton-mail-export-tool https://proton.me/support/proton-mail-export-tool. Finally, Proton was created in order to make online privacy available to anyone, so we will always try to maintain interoperability as much as we can.
- moose44 3y ago
  I'm not very tied to any of my emails. I recently did a painstaking digital purge so, switching everything over would be very easy for me.

Paying for Proton's services is a no brainer to me. $11 a month for access to VPN, encrypted email, encrypted cloud storage and more. Will gladly pay to not have my data shared with 772 3rd parties.

izzydata 3y ago

I'd rather pay hundreds of dollars for software upfront than a monthly subscription. But I'm still considering paying for the cheapest Proton option.

moose44 3y ago
I agree. I utilize the annual plan so it's a bit cheaper.
protonmail 3y ago
You can also pay for Proton's services yearly and bi-annually: https://proton.me/mail/pricing https://proton.me/mail/pricing
- izzydata 3y ago
  By monthly subscription I mean any subscription. An annual subscription is still a subscription. I want to pay for a perpetual license and never pay again. Unfortunately that would be difficult for an ongoing live service such as email.

moose44 3y ago

Nextdns.io is a great (free) addition to this.

rekoil 3y ago
NextDNS Pro is also €25/year. Super reasonable and ridiculously good product.
- moose44 3y ago
  Agreed. I don't make enough queries a month to need a pro account but would gladly pay if needed.
  - rekoil 3y ago
    My network makes 3,401,347 queries in a month, that's more than 11x the limit, but regardless, the price is so reasonable that even if I didn't exceed it I couldn't really motivate not paying when the service is as good as it is.
    - moose44 3y ago
      With that many queries, do you utilize the business tier or just the pro? Asking because I'd like to get this service on my company's computers.
      - rekoil 3y ago
        Just the Pro, but this is my home network, it's just that I'm a Pro user hehe.

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tailspin2019 3y ago

Agreed. I just switched my personal email over to Proton after already using them for my business email for a year or so. The webmail is slick (and refreshingly simple) and I'm really liking their iOS Mail app which is a huge improvement from the old version from a year or two ago. Hope they continue to invest in Calendar and Drive (encrypted storage) - both need a bit more work, but are usable enough for now.

moose44 3y ago
I concur. I also enjoy the ability to create alias emails. I do use a mail forwarding service but it's nice to be able to split things up.
protonmail 3y ago
We definitely will! Happy to hear that you are relying on our services for your business.

WithinReason 3y ago

They recently added automatic mail forwarding, so I pulled the trigger as well.

thesuitonym 3y ago

Let me start by saying that I don't think Proton is a bad company in any way, and I have no evidence of any kind of malfeasance, but I still must ask... Do you have an exit strategy if Proton goes the way of Microsoft or Google? Those two only had apathy and inertia keeping people in their ecosystem, but Proton kind of has you locked in, because you can only use their proprietary apps to access encrypted emails. Yes, I know you can use IMAP, but my understanding is that any email sent via IMAP isn't encrypted, and any encrypted mail can't be downloaded via IMAP. Either way, just because they have IMAP turned on today, doesn't mean they won't turn it off tomorrow in the name of security.

protonmail 3y ago
We'd like to point out that you can connect a custom domain to a Proton Mail account, which would make you eventual migration easier. Additionally, we also offer a free email export tool: https://proton.me/support/proton-mail-export-tool https://proton.me/support/proton-mail-export-tool. Finally, Proton was created in order to make online privacy available to anyone, so we will always try to maintain interoperability as much as we can.
moose44 3y ago
I'm not very tied to any of my emails. I recently did a painstaking digital purge so, switching everything over would be very easy for me.