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

  • mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    How would a company (even a good one) let people know they exist without some sort of advertising?

    Just start a company and sit there hoping people accidentally find you, then tell their friends?

    Advertising has to happen on some level.

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      7 hours ago

      Fair enough, that’s on me for not thinking it all the way through.

      On the flipside why is mullavad as trusted as it is now?

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        5 hours ago

        good track record, anon accounts+payments, no logs, swedish privacy laws and 3rd party security audits. mullvad was also chosen as the backend of Mozilla’s vpn

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          Hmmm, I guess, besides the the proton ceo’s statements, how does that compare to proton VPN?