I’m happy with Proton products personally but I see so many feature requests from users sitting for years on their core products. If anything I feel like the effort that goes into this instead could hurt Proton by branding them as “a crypto company”.

I'm honestly glad I am not (no longer) seemingly the only one thinking this. When I read the reactions to Scribe, I was a bit surprised there wasn't much skepticism/concern about that.

While I applaud their transition to being a Non-Profit/Foundation, the "tech fad chasing" of the last weeks definitely concerns me about Proton, looking at the backlog of "common sense" additions and even the lack of proper Linux support.

While it will be fine for most users, I'm more leaning to skepticism regarding generative AI and (pushing) crypto by a corporation. The former being due to copyright abuse, with the latter being a weird thing to push for in the current age where usages of blockchain are met with skepticism instead of hope.

I'd recommend looking into Tuta (formerly known as Tutanota). They recently got interviewed by Techlore indicating they wanna release "Tuta Drive". Seems to become a proper replacement for Proton, if you don't care about VPNs, crypto wallets or Cloud password storage.

All in all, Proton's features can be replaced by other services. Mullvad's well known for their straight forward "gold standard" VPN. Crypto wallets can best be held locally. Password storage got Cloud (Bitwarden) or local (KeePass and its derivatives in clients) options. Only "hurting" missed feature is Proton Docs, which launched not too long ago and is also missing quite a few features. Self-hosting or getting a service to host NextCloud is an option, however, but that'll eat into costs.

Reminds me of Keybase before they were bought out. Shame too. Keybase was really good. I wish they had open sourced it when Zoom bought them out as a part of the buyout deal.

I had a big problem with them once I signed up and they shoved their ads down my inbox. Then they created a survey asking what their users would like to see in Proton, and while a majority voted for calendar and email features, they made the AI section biased: you either are interested in AI, never heard of it or won't use but are interested. They purposedly didn't include an option "heard of AI but won't use it" because they know most of their users don't like it.

And now they're launching an AI assistant. How ethical they are proving to be. The company that portrayed itself as privacy-first is showing its true face.

Fastmail is a good choice, they just do the one thing.

Seriously. Someone sent me a link to this announcement earlier and my first thought was, _what year is it_?

I'm a long-time Proton customer and (until now) advocate and I have no idea who this is for or why it's a priority. It gives me serious pause about their ability to read the room and take the results of user feedback into account.

It's the hardest asset mankind has ever seen. Nothing else is as optimised for storing large quantities of value for long periods of time.

If you have an idea for how it could be optimised further or beaten by something else, I'd be very interested to hear.

Did you miss the Bitcoin ETFs going live in the US earlier this year? With $7.6 billion on the first day of trading, they hit the record for the highest volume in the history of ETFs.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/28/bitcoin-etfs-see-record-high...

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In 2024, I don't use crYpTo, but I use bitcoin to store my wealth without it being stolen by the banking system via supply inflation.

Same here.

I’m not using their calendar app, but the email and drive features work wonderfully on all my Apple devices.

Likewise. Especially fond of their VPN, calendar and Simplelogin services. Total game changer for me.