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New user about to jump into Proton
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this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2026
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I migrated away from proton for mail and calendar about 4 months ago. The services are fine, they do what they say, but the trade offs for “e2ee” email are large with a dubious benefit when it works and no benefit in 99% of cases because the vast majority of people don’t use Proton so your Mail is not encrypted anyways. I still use Pass, VPN, and SimpleLogin. They, IMO, are the best services Proton offers (though I may move passwords back to bitwarden, still deciding).
Overall it’s worth considering what secure email means to you, what your individual threat landscape looks like, and then comparing what Proton offers to your needs. Personally I migrated to Fastmail and have been pleased so far. It won’t be right for everyone, and for some the security offered by Proton may be valuable, but know there are a ton of asterisks to that security.
In my currency, VPN, pass, and simple login is the $199.01 a year.
However the bundle for everything is $119.88/year.
Not sure why you’d not use it all or nothing at that pricing structure.
I use them because I still have access through the last renewal I had, but won’t be renewing anything other than SimpleLogin once it runs out (and even that I may try and self host, not sure yet).
Yeah honestly despite kinda wanting to give my money to Proton, I think I came to the decision today to stick with vaultwarden + PIA + Fastmail. It’s just better value.
PIA was purchased by an ad agency a few years ago. They are not to be trusted. Happy to provide a source
“Happy to provide a source”
Provides no source.
Also, they’ve been independently audited so whatevs. Plus I don’t really care
https://www.techradar.com/news/cyberghost-owner-buys-pia-for-dollar955m-to-create-vpn-giant
Hope you feel better, have a great weekend
“VPN company buys other VPN company” is far from your original claim. Also, it’s irrelevant anyway.
That’s why they had to make a public statement. You deserve what you get if you keep on with PIA
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivateInternetAccess/s/Opcm0fnGaB
I deserve what I get? And what will I get? How will it impact me specifically? Also the public statement is basically saying “nothing is changing” sooo.
Also who would you recommend? You got a recommendation for the same or less money? I’ll wait.
Hope you feel better
So you have no answer to my questions
Would you like a source? Happy to link just didn’t feel like digging before. What a strange adversarial response
If you had a source you’d have already provided it. Also, like I said, I don’t really care.