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I've been a paying Protonmail customer for years and recently started worrying about having put my eggs into the Protonmail basket. /rant Recent outage issues surfaced some major flaws with the mobile clients, on top of shaking my faith in the infrastructure (though no one can easily stand up to nation state actors so I do not blame PM). And yesterday I was shown ads inside the web portal, along with a big call-to-ac…
Could the title be update to contain the word bridge as the issue is in the Protonmail bridge application and not on Protonmail itself. The entire title is clickbaity, but adding the birdge moves it away from being misleading.
> I wish that I had discovered these comments before because this issue with bridge cost me a job back in April.
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that's obviously a strawman. What's being critized is the heroin-dealer model of doing business, i.e. "the first dose is free" but you'll be locked in, which seems increasingly popular among a lot of services that try to compete with the big players.
Wouldn't comparing paying a few dollars to leave a service forever to a "heroin dealer" be the strawman here?
Yeah, Protonmail Bridge is my main source of buyer’s remorse wrt. Protonmail. I moved my family e-mail set-up to Protonmail, so I can’t just move away without having to migrate everyone else too. So now I’m just stuck with it. Weird sync issues, random CPU spikes, having to use the web-UI for anything important, etc. Not sure why they can’t make it work, but I guess trying to make their custom encrypted mail set-up s…
Yeah, Protonmail Bridge is my main source of buyer’s remorse wrt. Protonmail. I moved my family e-mail set-up to Protonmail, so I can’t just move away without having to migrate everyone else too. So now I’m just stuck with it. Weird sync issues, random CPU spikes, having to use the web-UI for anything important, etc. Not sure why they can’t make it work, but I guess trying to make their custom encrypted mail set-up s…
Okay, rather than just complaining, I suppose we should gather alternatives, right? mailbox.org hey fastmail tutanota mailfence disroot posteo barracuda (for businesses) vivaldi mail mailpile countermail hushmail I haven't used any of these, so if anyone has others or has experience with any of these, please share your experience.
But, it just works once its setup, and if all you want is IMAP support it's all good there. They usually do a Black Friday sale that's pretty decent. Last year they had a 25gb storage option for $25/year. I have like 5 domains on it, and about as many mailboxes. Smooth sailing since.
I didn't know what exactly is proton mail bridge. This is what I've found: > Proton Mail Bridge is a desktop application that runs in the background, encrypting and decrypting messages as they enter and leave your computer. It lets you add your Proton Mail account to your favorite email client via IMAP/SMTP by creating a local email server on your computer. Source: https://proton.me/mail/bridge
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Hmm. When I was using Protonmail in free tier, the Import-Export feature was only for the paid tier. Seems strange that they only opened it for free tier now. This should be a feature available to any tier in the first place.
I see it as a way of getting paid for the development of services. People willing to pay for an offering are more likely to provide quality feedback. Once it is stable there and dev time has been recouped, you can offer it to the free tier. I actually don't have an issue with that. Once it is available to free tier users, it frees up the devs to go to the next item on the list once again only available to the paid us…
The obvious reason is that a company has an incentive to make it easy to onboard and no incentive to help you migrate off or even an incentive to make it difficult or costly to leave. I don't see how making import/export something only a payed tier has is specifically or especially for funding development. It's not the deal breaker or the reason people choose Protonmail over others, even if it can be a consideration.