I’ll start off by saying everyone’s economic situations are just as varied as their threat models and how people make decisions on which services can be specific to themself and not one that can apply to anyone else. The services one chooses to use for free or to pay for may be based more on what they can afford vs what’s the best broad reaching plan.

That being said i’d like to see what others think about the proton suit of services. I’ve been eyeing it as an option for a paid service for a while but am hesitant to put all my eggs in one basket. I’m interested in a vpn, mullvad seems to be the other popular choice. I’m also interested in email address anonymizing service like anonaddy. At $5 for mullvad, $3 for anonaddy, and $3 for base proton email it comes out to a dollar more than protons premium tier which gets cheaper if you pay for 1 or 2 years at a time.

As said above would the biggest reason not to use proton for all of these separate services be not putting all your eggs in one basket?

  • Scolding7300@lemmy.world
    21·
    1 year ago

    Proton unlimited, and I don’t understand why did they go with Proton Pass. There’s products like Bitwarden and LastPass (and more) that are feature rich. Bitwarden is open sourced.

    I think having separate services is good, especially if it’s cheaper that way. For photos I use ente even though I have 500gb just because they specialize in photos (same reason why Pass isn’t useful IMO)

    • workerONE@lemmy.ml
      10·
      1 year ago

      So what if LastPass exists? They got hacked twice and covered it up. Proton pass auto fill works better than LastPass. Use what you want but why suggest a product shouldn’t exist because there is competition?

      • Scolding7300@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’m arguing that they seem to waste resources instead of solidifying their existing product suite. Like features for Drive, basic ones like a desktop client for auto sync.

        I know you can’t make a baby in 1 month with 9 women, adding another product with only basic fetures seems wasteful to me given the state of the other ones.

        So when there’s products like Bitwarden I wouldn’t pay for Unlimited if you’re looking for the most bang for your buck.

      • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.one
        1·
        1 year ago

        Agreed. Having choices is a good thing. I’m quite happy with Bitwarden, but I was happy to see that Proton is offering a password manager as well.