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proton always glowed but just straight up bending to unnamed agencies puts em rank and file with every single other provider
I've been following this on X/Twitter and I think one of the most egregious things that's important to point out is that folks from Phrack reached out to Proton in private multiple times, and Proton ghosted them. Proton only engaged with them and then reinstated the accounts after Phrack went public and their X/Twitter post went viral. It also looks like one of the writers filed an appeal with Proton and Proton denie…
PSA: Proton deletes “unused” accounts after one year, and defines unused in some opaque sense where receiving but not sending emails is “unused” so I’m in a nasty position of my iCloud account being unrecoverable. Going to have to spend nontrivial time off boarding my account.
I've need a paying subscriber to Proton since 2018, but I recently canceled my subscription (which ends in November). I just got fed up with the constant bugginess and jankiness of their offerings. Any suggestions for mail hosting and VPN? I hear good things about Fastmail and mailbox.org (I see they very recently rebranded to just mailbox and revamped their offering). Also, I've been a heavy user of the SimpleLogin…
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PSA: Proton deletes “unused” accounts after one year, and defines unused in some opaque sense where receiving but not sending emails is “unused” so I’m in a nasty position of my iCloud account being unrecoverable. Going to have to spend nontrivial time off boarding my account.
> defines unused in some opaque sense where receiving but not sending emails is “unused” "You are considered active if you log in and use our services once a year. Simply logging in to any Proton service on our web, desktop, or mobile apps at least once a year is enough." https://proton.me/support/inactive-accounts >
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> constant bugginess and jankiness of their offerings This is something I had not heard (also have been a paying user for a very long time). I've never encountered a bug, to my knowledge. I did dislike that when they released photo storage they didn't have a proper search feature.
Proton seems to have a lot of cheerleaders that come out of the woodwork when anyone complains. I'm happy that somehow their code is magically bug free for you, since you've somehow never encountered any bugs whatsoever in their code (despite their release notes mentioning literal bugs they've fixed). I'm glad it works for you, but their offering is frequently buggy and broken for me.
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> constant bugginess and jankiness of their offerings This is something I had not heard (also have been a paying user for a very long time). I've never encountered a bug, to my knowledge. I did dislike that when they released photo storage they didn't have a proper search feature.
Proton seems to have a lot of cheerleaders that come out of the woodwork when anyone complains. I'm happy that somehow their code is magically bug free for you, since you've somehow never encountered any bugs whatsoever in their code (despite their release notes mentioning literal bugs they've fixed). I'm glad it works for you, but their offering is frequently buggy and broken for me.
People that feel very satisfied or dissatisfied with something are most likely to comment. I've just been very satisfied.
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> constant bugginess and jankiness of their offerings This is something I had not heard (also have been a paying user for a very long time). I've never encountered a bug, to my knowledge. I did dislike that when they released photo storage they didn't have a proper search feature.
For me the jank is in their billing and the plans I can purchase. I can either have a Business Mail Essentials plan or a Business Password plan, but if i want both at the same time I have to buy a plan that's three times as expensive or drop my custom domain name.
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> defines unused in some opaque sense where receiving but not sending emails is “unused” "You are considered active if you log in and use our services once a year. Simply logging in to any Proton service on our web, desktop, or mobile apps at least once a year is enough." https://proton.me/support/inactive-accounts >
I had the mobile app and login. That wasn’t enough. Reading emails was not enough.