timepencil

@Xanis You’re welcome!

Both Proton Pass and Bitwarden are ad-free, secure, and very nearly have the full features of the paid versions.

For most users, the free versions are more than enough.

One limitation is that the free versions don’t allow 2FA TOTPs to be generated. Personally, I’d never use that feature as it removes a barrier to being hacked *IF* the password manager was ever compromised. Instead, the use of a separate Authenticator app for those codes is probably safer!

@Xanis @DesolateMood
Sure!

Tuta.com
Privacyguides.org
EFF.org

Additionally, Proton Pass and Bitwarden are both well respected, open source, password managers that are Freemium products.

@gmtom

Maybe everyone at Proton might have to accept a paycut.
Maybe Proton would have to raise prices in the long term, but offer discounts in the short term to bolster the paid subscriber base.

But the ONE thing they can never do, is sell their member’s meta data, let alone their data. It would destroy their business model and the Proton Foundation, now the majority shareholder of Proton AG, is legally bound to never permit such a change.

https://proton.me/blog/proton-non-profit-foundation

@gmtom @HKayn
Proton’s “paying subscribers” don’t really subsidise the CEO’s pay.
They PAY it! Andy’s and every employee’s salary would be paid for by the subscribers.
Proton AG might receive grants, but probably not enough to keep the servers running nor the lights on in the office.

True, as a general rule, “If a product is free, then YOU are the product” but not in Proton’s case.

They’ve had a “Freemium” business model from the start, and there’s no sign of the music slowing.

@fart_pickle @protonprivacy
If Proton develops a “feature that detects and labels faces and features in the pictures stored in a Proton Drive,” I will IMMEDIATELY extract every photo and file of mine from Proton Drive, and then CLOSE my Proton account.

Having that feature would probably require users to provide their password to the system performing the ‘facial recognition’ scan. That would be a HUGE vulnerability.

If I ever want my privacy destroyed, I’ll use Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.

@harsh3466 @Neilia_1
Proton has released Von App?

Well, it was bound to happen.

If a bunch of scientists and coders get together where the world’s largest and expensive man-made ring (the LHC) was forged deep underground, it was only a matter of time before Tolkein’s writing started to influence the decisions made by Proton.

Von App to rule them all,
Von App to find them,
Von App to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.