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Born Private: Reserve your child's first email address with Proton
- pixel_popping 6mo agoIt's an excellent commercial angle, as most people will become parents over time, which gives a strong incentive to continue with Proton. Kuddos!
- ZunarJ5 6mo agoI really wish they would improve existing features rather than this stuff. They've been promising a Drive client for Linux for years.
- pixel_popping 6mo agoIt's a bit strange, Proton has always been behind in the Linux community despite actually being overall respected for Privacy (not anonymity), but those are a major userbase.
- ZunarJ5 6mo agoI wish it was just Drive. They seem to acquire or put these new modules in half baked and they see little to no user end changes for years. I've been with them a long time and I like them but I increasingly dread their announcements when basic features aren't implemented.
- bluehatbrit 6mo agoSeems like a nice way to raise a bit of money for the foundation, and the problem of children needing email addresses is a real one. I just don't understand how reserving an email address years before they need it actually improves their privacy. Is this really just a case of reserving an address if your child has a common first name and last name, without having to keep the address active?
- andOlga 6mo agoIt "improves privacy" because Proton is a "private email service". That's all there is to that line of marketing here.
- imcritic 6mo agoProton mail and privacy? Is this some joke?
- pixel_popping 6mo agoMuch better than Gmail, where Google leak information of half a million users every year [1] to governments [1] and no, those aren't necessarily "criminals". [1] https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview
- JoeBOFH 6mo agoPrivacy is not anonymity.
- ok_dad 6mo agoEven better, buy your child a domain name when they’re born. Then they can use any email service in the future, not just an obvious CIA plant.
- steph3n_cc 6mo agoWouldn't it just be easier to ask for some money upfront? This seems like a ridiculous concept.