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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12202255

Announcement from the Proton team on Reddit (Libreddit link):

Today, we’re increasing file storage limits on the free plan.

Instead of sharing 1 GB between files and email, you’ll now have:

5 GB for Proton Drive

1 GB for Proton Mail

Additional context: For Proton Drive, you now start with 2 GB and for Proton Mail, you start with 500 MB. After signing up for the Free plan, you can unlock the maximum storage allowance on each service thus:

You can boost your Proton Mail storage from 500 MB to 1 GB by completing four account setup actions.

You can boost your Proton Drive storage from the default 2 GB to 5 GB by completing three tasks.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago (6 children)

It's because they're still in the early stage of enshittification, "first, they are good to their users."

I hope my pessimistic ass is wrong; only time will tell. I just feel like some part of Proton's marketing strategy doesn't do it for me.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

They are ten years in at this point. I think they are doing it right.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Enshitifcation happens when users, advertisers, and investors are all competing for resources. With Proton, the users are the investors and there are no advertisers. Users are paying customers. It won't get enshitified.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I am using their services for a couple years now, and their plan have increased, but not my bill. I still pay the same price as when I subscribed. That's howt you keep customers. Also, they increase storage from time to time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think it's because a lot of other companies did the same thing, Google Drive and Dropbox also had these 'do tasks and get more space' promos

My personal issue with the above is privacy issues (mainly dropbox with the automatic opt-in AI thing), so who knows. Maybe it'll be ok

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Proton drive is end to end encrypted so all your files are kept private

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You're right, they're trying to get you into the service so when the price goes up there is inertia and friction to leave.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think Proton is fine for using as an email for signing up for websites just for the sake of avoiding Gmail, but I wouldn't advise anyone to get fully integrated with their ecosystem for syncing contacts, calendars, files, etc. For people concerned with privacy there's better options.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Like what? They have servers in Switzerland, they seem competent.

Anything that is based in the US is not privacy friendly by law (at least for not-US citizens, see why US will never be an equivalent country for GDPR)

Anything that is implemented/maintained by incompetent is not privacy friendly by NSA/hackers/you name it