from the team:
Proton protects your digital life: your emails, files, and passwords. In an emergency, it may be critical that the people you trust can access this information securely.
Proton's Emergency Access Feature
With Emergency Access, you can designate up to five trusted contacts who can access your Proton Mail, Proton Drive, Proton Pass, and Proton VPN if the unexpected occurs.
How it works:
- Choose up to 5 Proton users as emergency contacts.
- Trusted contacts who make an access request can access your account after a set wait time. During the wait time, you can approve the request immediately or deny it. If you do nothing, the request will automatically be approved after the wait time.
- You can revoke or modify access at any time.
Emergency access preserves end-to-end encryption.
This feature is now available with paid Proton plans.
If you want peace of mind and flexibility in critical situations, set up Emergency Access today and make sure your loved ones are never locked out of essential information.
Read more: https://proton.me/blog/emergency-access
Sorry for the absence, it has been a bit hectic! News from the Proton Team:
Hey everyone,
It’s finally here! Split Tunneling is officially rolling out in beta for Linux, starting with Fedora and Ubuntu (latest versions only).
This is an early release, and we’ll keep on making improvements together with your help. We wanted to get it out there for anyone who wants to test-drive it and help shape how it evolves.
✅ What’s in this release:
- Exclude mode only — you can pick apps to bypass the VPN
- Fedora + Ubuntu support
- Works only with the official Proton VPN Linux app
🔜 Coming soon:
- Include mode — route only selected apps through the VPN
- IP-based rules
- Debian 12 support
⚠️ A few caveats:
- You’ll need the latest version of our Linux app
- Feature is available only for those on a paid plan
- The feature won’t be available for (unofficial) Flatpak versions of our app, so please use our official installer from our website.
- Bugs and limited functionality are expected (beta life)
Let us know how it works for you, and what you’d like to see next! We are going to keep making improvements and changes to this feature over time, so give us as much feedback as you can.
Stay safe,
Proton Team
Maybe I should've hopped the train way earlier, or maybe I'm just a whiny bitch, but I do NOT want to see pop-up ads on my paid service, especially for an even more expensive plan. Like dude, come on.
I asked Lumo AI for VoIP provider options (e2ee). Is it blu3 ball1ng me or is there something i dont know?
Any idea what this is about? I doubt Proton has that many trackers, so I was thinking maybe the individual emails? But those would just be triggering when I click on links, which I thought Proton stripped anyways, and I wouldn't think /e/os would attribute those to Proton either.
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Empowering you to choose a better internet where privacy is the default. Protect yourself online with Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive. Proton Pass and SimpleLogin.
Proton Mail is the world's largest secure email provider. Swiss, end-to-end encrypted, private, and free.
Proton VPN is the world’s only open-source, publicly audited, unlimited and free VPN. Swiss-based, no-ads, and no-logs.
Proton Calendar is the world's first end-to-end encrypted calendar that allows you to keep your life private.
Proton Drive is a free end-to-end encrypted cloud storage that allows you to securely backup and share your files. It's open source, publicly audited, and Swiss-based.
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SimpleLogin lets you send and receive emails anonymously via easily-generated unique email aliases.