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[โ€“] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 68 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

It's not local? It's not private. Period. "End-to-End Encrypted" LOL except they're the other "end". That's just HTTPS.

[โ€“] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Does Andy the bootlicker think that proton paying customers are idiots?

Asking for a friend

Jfc... Their drive can't compete with Filen. Their VPN can't compete with mullvad at least privacy wise.

Email and calc prolly better than competition.

Bitwarden makes better password manager.

There are a ton of crypto wallets.

Now they add llm with a trust me bro... Their marketing department thinks the users are idiots. All around classic corpo behaviour. Fuck em

[โ€“] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

On the other hand, Unlimited is 10โ‚ฌ a month, which is OK-ish for the suite if you need most of them.

Mail+password manager+unlimited aliases (simile login) is already 10 when picking other reputable private services (without the limitations of the free tiers). So VPN and drive are "free".

I'm moving away to another service though. I don't care they are in continental Europe, those Trump praises were concerning.

[โ€“] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 4 days ago

They do have all around value proposition not going to dispute that but putting all of your eggs in one basket is literally repeating Google/apple mistake.

Never gain, decentralized is the only for me forward.

[โ€“] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wild that you have downvotes when you're absolutely 100% correct

[โ€“] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 4 days ago

I think people reading just didnโ€™t understand the critique and were like โ€œTOO MANY WORDS Y U SAY IT BADโ€