Mostly out of curiosity, but also somewhat related to Proton’s recent political involvement, I’m curious about alternatives to using their services, open to suggestions for:

  • Proton Mail: anything that can support custom domain, email aliases, and email scheduling?
  • Proton Drive: not the most important, but interested in privacy first, encrypted hosting services
  • Proton Pass: anything I should take a look at besides Bitwarden and Keepass?
  • Proton VPN: that one’s the hardest, it was really good, I think Mullvlad is the one most often recommended?
  • Proton Calendar: didn’t really care about that one, but it was nice that it connected to Mail

My Unlimited plan renewed in December so I’ll probably keep it for a year, it was nice having only one subsctiption to keep in mind, but I’m thinking of exploring other options

  • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works
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    27 days ago

    I was thinking about subbing to Proton and researched a few other alternatives but ended up coming to the conclusion that it is kinda useless for me and most people. Unless the other person(s) you email are also using Proton or a similar service then you’re still compromised. I guess it makes sense for some people like journalists or politicians, but only if you know your peers are also using it. I ended up moving everything to iCloud which does most of what you’re looking for.

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      27 days ago

      Personally I switched to a private email just so it would be one less avenue to harvest my data and habits for advertisers.

    • Alf No Problem@mastodon.social
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      27 days ago

      @Plebcouncilman @inlandempire
      I use Proton and can automatically send my public keys attached to every email I send out. Yes, emails with other Proton users are fully encrypted, but I can see the padlock icon on emails to and from some l of my friends and relatives using Gmail and Yahoo mail for example.
      Proton made PGP encryption use quite easy.
      Good luck!