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Emails, password manager, VPN, and now documents—absolutely not a wise thing to do. Never put all your eggs in one basket; your whole personal and even professi
by tamimio 2y ago
Emails, password manager, VPN, and now documents—absolutely not a wise thing to do. Never put all your eggs in one basket; your whole personal and even professional life shouldn't be entrusted to a single company.
- RDaneel0livaw 2y agoCompletely agree. I love Proton, been a paying customer for many years now. I do use the Proton Drive app all the time, and occasionally the vpn when I'm at an airport or hotel. But I refuse to use their Pass app, and I similarly will refuse to use this new docs app. I use Standard Notes for all my notes (funny enough they joined with Proton this year lol) and Bitwarden for passwords. And then I just let Apple sync all my contacts, and for calendar it's kind of required that I use the ios calendars for family member sharing reasons.
- Night_Thastus 2y agoThere's benefit to doing so, though - and that's integration. It's part of why Apple is so successful. It offers real convenience that users are genuinely willing to pair a premium for. If you want to be more cautious, sure. But the likelyhood that they're going to collapse so hard and quickly that you lose anything significant is pretty slim.
- mark_l_watson 2y agoNot quite right: never be in a position where there is no easy migration off any platform you use. Use a custom domain with ProtonMail or any other provider. Frequently download email, calendar, etc. from Proton, Google, etc. There are a lot of good comments in this whole conversation about nice to have Proton improvements, but I suggest we not lose sight of the benefits of not having personal and company data in the hands of Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc. Companies and individuals who aren’t worried about the costs and risks of the lack of privacy should not use Proton.