Currently wondering if the black Friday deal for proton is worth it. Gmail has suited me fine, but I hear it’s bad for privacy. I’m on an android phone anyway, so switching email services might not even matter.

  • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    The deal is absolutely worth it, in my opinion.

    I pay $8 per month. This gives me up to 10 email addresses on my account. I use my own domain name, and have no issues. The TLD for the domain I use is .is, which works on 99% of websites. For the websites/apps/etc that don’t like the TLD I use, I still have my @protonmail.com and @pm.me addresses to fall back on.

    There is an option to have a mailbox password in addition to the account login password and 2FA.

    I might get one spam email that makes it to my inbox in a month or even longer.

    I can’t really speak to anything but their email service.

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      1 year ago

      I want that family plan but 6 users isn’t enough and I don’t see any other suitable plans on their site.

      I run my own domain (currently with Google Workspace) for 10 family members. Want to leave Google but no provider has options in that size except business pricing.

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      1 year ago

      It can’t be the TLD that makes your address not work on the last 1% of sites. ‘.is’ is just Iceland, nothing particular about that would make sites reject an address.