I’ve decided to leave Proton after being a user since 2017. Today, I migrated all my services to my new domain, marking the end of my time with Proton. The recent political noise and price point were no longer justifiable for me. It was a good experience while it lasted. Thanks for the fishes 🐟 🐠
What did you switch to?
Personal domain and an imap provider so that I can easily switch in the future if needed.
How are you going to do that? I’m curious because I want to do the same and have email clients on multiple devices.
Many bigger hosting providers also offer email hosting with IMAP access. I currently have a personal domain at a host that offers it, but my email is still hosted with a free Google domains account (it’s grandfathered in for life, but I’m still finally planning to move it to my hosts service).
Here’s a provider you can do that with
https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/custom-domains/using-e-mails-with-a-custom-domain/
Which provider automatically handles pgp encryption for you, like proton?
How do y’all do your email and calendars? Those are the two things that aren’t easy to replace from proton.
Mind, my email needs to be reliable for work reasons.
I’m onboarding onto Proton now (but WITH my own domain, so I’ll never have to change e-mails again (well, unless I turn out to be trans later and change my name)). For mail I’ve heard of Tuta, I think that’s the only serious alternative.
Ah. I tried tuta, back when I decided to go for proton instead. Their security requirements were more restrictive than I was able to allow for regular email use, although I don’t remember the details of what they were, anymore.
I’ve been using nextcloud for contacts, calendar, and files for many years
Will be easy for me to ditch proton if the bullshit escalates further
Tuta for mail, self hosted calendar with Radicale
For e-mail, Tutanota, Posteo, Mailbox.org.
For calendar and contacts, self-hosted Radicale.
Switched to Posteo and Addy.io
Any good VPN other than Proton? Almost every one is going down the enshitification route and I’m looking for an alternative.
I’ve been happy with Mullvad. Good no-log policy, audited regularly, and their servers run on RAM. No port forwarding though, as others mentioned.
Mullvad, ivpn
I think the most common alternatives I see recommended are Mullvad and IVPN. Both have a great track record, but also both lack port forwarding if that is an essential feature for you.
I swear by AirVPN. Not the fastest or fanciest, but they’ve got port forwarding and are run by an activist org; I’ve got a lifetime membership IIRC
Be mindful that Italy passed a law forcing vpn’s to block pirated content, and AirVPN is based in Italy.
Does this affect anyone outside of Italy though? When I recently signed up for it it had a huge warning saying they don’t allow Italian residents to use them, nor do they host any Italian servers, I assume so they don’t have to deal with this law at all
I’m not sure how they would distinguish between the two in practice, surely they would block all piracy attempts, not just the ones going to an Italian IP address? It’s an unknown for now, but I would be hesitant to use them until it’s more clear how this could effect privacy.
Windscribe is a good one in my experience - https://windscribe.com/
PIA has been uneventful for a couple years…
PIA is notable for still having port forwarding; Something many other VPNs have ditched. So on that one point, they’re better than others.
However, 4 or 5 years ago they were bought by a company (Kape Technology, formerly known as Crossrider) that has a history of stuffing adware into their programs. Like their business model was basically:
- Buy popular program
- Stuff it with adware
- Get short term profit off of existing user base
- Abandon program after users have fled
- Repeat
Since a VPN provider’s only real source of legitimacy is public trust, the Kape buyout had a lot of customers fleeing to alternatives like Proton. So far, the PIA app has been fine. But Kape could decide at any point to just pump it full of adware and run away with arms full of cash, like they have done in the past. Also, Kape is (or at least was, at the time of the buyout) headed by a known Israeli intelligence agent. So that was another big thing that sent customers scrambling to alternatives.
Thanks. That is a useful brakedown of them. Using them for the last year with zero issues but always important to evaluate.
I hear you. Last August I prepaid for two years and now I regret it. I’m just going to ride it out since I can’t afford to switch.
Yeah same for me…
I’m out of the loop. What’s happening with Proton?
The CEO endorses the American Nazi Party
So depressing
Imagine thinking installing Felon as an unelected official would be the best approach to putting Tech Bros in place.
I would pay to watch this guy try to put his shoes on in the morning
Yeah I let my ProtonVPN subscription lapse, and rather than using them for email I moved to Soverin.
There were a bunch of companies that showed up in a search, but I’m guessing you mean this one?
Yup that’s the one
Same for me, just in the process of updating my mail adress everywhere again right now.
My renewal was just coming up and I also couldn’t justify it. I’ve switched to a personal domain with my E-Mail and use Infomaniak for mail, calendar and cloud storage and Keepass as my password manager. Positive side effect, I only pay half of what I’ve paid for Proton.
What did the migration entail for you? I reckon it’s a huge effort to move the mailing provider. I expect the calendar to be the most straightforward service to move.
If you have a custom domain I assume it’s pretty easy? Just swap the dns
If you have to do it manually - hit all of the important financial ones, then update them every time you get an email. Make sure your storage is under the free tier limit for anything you forgot. (GDPR for you email history as a single download)
