He seemed like a decent guy and that was enough for me to finally make the switch from Gmail to proton and buy prem.
Enjoy pop-up ads trying to sell you a subscription when you just want to view your inbox! The one bad thing about their service.
They mentioned that they bought premium, so they won’t be seeing ads. Edit: Multiple people below are telling me that purchasing premium does not remove all ads, so that’s actually quite annoying.
As an aside, I really don’t get the logic of using a service like e-mail and just expecting it to be free - it’s very bizarre to me.
If it’s something important to you (as I assume e-mail is), pay for it - or stop whining about ads/nagging pop-ups.
And if you can’t pay for it, download Dovecot and try doing it yourself - it’s a fun experience, and will make you appreciate the work done by email providers. Spoiler alert: it’s a massive pain in the butt.
You get premium ads if you are on a plus subscription or a free account. Once you get premium though, then they start advertising the family pack to you!
Hmm, guess I was wrong, then - that would be very annoying; especially if you’re getting pop-ups for a family plan you won’t ever be able to make use of as you’re a solo user.
I’m very disappointed that there was no mention of adding Monero(XMR) for payment.
Do you need to pay for your email provider with Monero? If it’s the VPN that you primarily care about, then I believe Mullvad accepts Monero
If email is so important for privacy then why can’t I pay for it in a privacy protecting way?
I mean, I suppose that’s fair. I guess paying for email with Monero feels a bit like overkill to me, but it depends on your threat model
I reason it this way. If like they say in the video email is one of the most critical parts of privacy (I 100% agree with that) then why don’t they support the only privacy currency? Also why pay for email well simple I both want the features that paying gives you but anything free either you are the product or others are indirectly paying for me. I want my email provider to not spy on me and sell my data so why not give my money to a provider that proves that they protect it? I chose Tuta.com instead of proton because of this. And to make it clear Tuta.com doesn’t allow monero payments but their official reseller proxysto.re does allow monero! Also it’s not hard to add monero as a payment option :)
