I just got access to Proton Wallet earlier today. Is there anything you’d like to know?

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  • I’m on a family plan and have been a paying customer for about 2/3 years.
  • I haven’t bought any Bitcoin yet but will report back on that once I have.
  • @Reygle
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    185 months ago

    Signed up for decent encrypted email and now I feel like Proton’s only goal is to shove so much extra shit down my throat that they’ll choke me to death- and apparently I’m the only subscriber completely uninterested in any of it.

    • @finestnothing
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      325 months ago

      I genuinely don’t get why they made a Bitcoin wallet, but all of their other services are direct competitors to (and imo much better than) the Google suite apps and made it much easier to de-google my life

      • @Reygle
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        145 months ago

        De-Googling is great, keep at that.

        That said, Totally investing in a single other provider may not be the answer.

        • ᴅᴜᴋᴇᴛʜᴏʀɪᴏɴ
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          25 months ago

          Not going to work without full KYC/AML compliance. Which negates the whole point of using Proton to begin with.

      • @Reygle
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        5 months ago

        Proton VPN, Proton Drive, Proton Pass, etc- none of these existed when I signed up but here they are. If anything I’d rather opt out of all the extra stuff for a discounted rate, but that’ll never happen.

        • @[email protected]
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          5 months ago

          If you just want Mail, there’s the Mail Plus plan, which is just the Mail (with a little bit of Drive for mail storage) and cheaper than the Unlimited plan. I see what you’re saying though. I’d like more customisable plans too. I use Drive and Mail, but don’t want the others and the Mail Plus plan doesn’t have enough for Drive (for my usecase), so I have to shell out for Unlimited.

    • TMKI
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      15 months ago

      Do you ever use the VPN?

      • @Reygle
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        35 months ago

        Already have a different provider, so no.

        • TMKI
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          45 months ago

          That’s fair. It has worked very well for me. Pass has been good too. I would probably use Calendar if they put more work into it, but it’s still missing quite a few features. Like others have mentioned, Wallet is a bit of a head-scratcher, but if it could compete with Apple/Google Wallet, I would try it out for sure.

        • Amju Wolf
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          35 months ago

          To be fair, why not just drop the other provider and use Proton? Should be cheaper that way. I also didn’t ask for any of this, and use email almost exclusively, but the VPN has come in handy a few times.