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.

  • snownyte@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I use both. Sometimes some people or services I e-mail through proton, don’t really get through and it’s annoying. It forces me to use GMail so that we can communicate better. I did a 2 year extensional trial of Proton to discover that I infact don’t really store a lot of e-mail so I don’t even find being restricted to 500MB as bothersome though I do upgrade to 1GB to be certain. I never ever see anything I store through e-mail exceed even 100MB.

    The one thing I’ll really accredit Proton for is that, I don’t need mobile numbers or anything to register. Outlook, AOL, GMail .etc want to through you in a frustrating web of an obstacle course where you’ve “got to have” a back up, you’ve “got to have” a mobile number, you’ve “got to have” all of these unnecessary things to register. Even with the understanding that those e-mail services once not have those requirements before changing over, presumably over service abuses, there can be better ways.