Proton's mission, funding sources, independence, and community are some of the reasons we're more resilient than other privacy-first companies.

Proton’s mission, funding sources, independence, and community are some of the reasons we’re more resilient than other privacy-first companies.

    • CucumberFetish@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 months ago

      What I love about them is that recently they had more people buying their password manager, than they planned for. This reduced the cost per user for them.

      Instead of pocketing all of the profit gained from it, they sent out an email to all of their paid users, to let them know that they can now update their subscription for a discount.

      • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        That’s so surreal in this day & age. I can’t think of any other example where that happened. I use Bitwarden because I don’t want all my eggs in one basket, even for Proton who I trust. But good on them for doing a solid for their customers instead of bowing to the forces of pure capitalism.

      • daed@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        9 months ago

        It’s fuckin weird to see a company make a decision based on the long term retention of their customers rather than short term profits… I like these guys.

  • nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I fucking don’t want to spend more money on services. It’s a nightmare. That’s why I started digging into self-hosting in combination with some core services that I would like to keep to stay into the practical part and don’t spend time configuring shit.

    • Swarfega@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Which is fine. But self hosting has multiple complexities. It’s not just a case of installing and configuring a mail server. Maintenance, security, electric costs etc just add up.

      I’d sooner have working emails and leave all the management to the provider.