Privacy

Emphasis: listen the first time.

And this is red flag number 3. Don't forget about Proton sponsoring fascist Youtubers.

• Filen.io encrypted notes and camera roll backup and cloud drive
• Tuta email
• Bitwarden password
• Aegis 2FA
• Windscribe VPN
• Addy.io email alias
• privacy.com credit card aliases
• Cryptpad productivity suite

Valutwarden

I said this before, will say it again: do not migrate to another subscription service.

People went through all the trouble to migrate from Google to Proton, then now they must migrate from Proton to whatever else, and the cycle will repeat again.

Subscription services, cloud software, they all strip you of agency and control. You don't have direct access to the files, you don't control the GUI, they are filled with proprietary formats, you are at their hands if they decide to change something you like, or pricing, or if they simply go nuts.

Keep your things in your computer. Need they synced? SyncThing will do that for you on any device imaginable.

especially password manager

KeePassXC on desktop, KeePassDX on a phone. The KDBX files are encrypted, and unless you store other files inside of there, they are also pretty tiny (<1MB), so you can put it anywhere. Of course, in that case, don't store cloud login details in that password database.

I don't know yet, but I got 600+ days to figure it out 😬

It is majority owned by the non-profit Proton Foundation

I canceled my renewal at that time but had just reupped for two years. I was hoping the foundation board would do its job and reprimand him if not oust. Their inaction and silence has been the most disappointing part of this and the real reason I’m following through on ending my 10+ year account with them.

I also cited him back then. Interesting to pay attention to reddit comments but not to your own cancelling subscribers.

I had missed that and that's a failure on my part.

I had just swapped over to proton at the time so I didn't want to go through that again but if both ethics and security aren't priorities then I'm out I'll probably just self host half the replacement services on my VPS anyway.

I remember when I used to lament not purchasing the visionary plan a few years back.

After decades on Gmail I finally stopped procrastinating and moved almost everything to proton over the last week. I had made a Lemmy post asking for service recommendations. Almost everyone said proton except two jerks who railed against it but had no interest in explaining and they made no alternative recommendation, just railed against proton.

Reading this article right now sucks.

Please do share what alternative(s) you end up with and what you like about the providers. I had a look at mailbox, infomaniak and tuta for mail and airvpn as a replacement. I think I'l be switching to mailbox.

If you use an email alias software like addy.io, email basically becomes ephemeral. Change providers whenever you want and just change the forwarding address for the alias.

Also helps with internet hygeine to have a different random email for every account.