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Do you think Proton Unlimited worth the price? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've thinking about purchasing Proton Mail Plus only and just only to have IMAP support, but I've looked all the features that the Proton Unlimited Plan have, and honestly I believe it's worth, but I hate having all the eggs in the same basket.

The features I believe worth the most are the 500GB storage, IMAP support, all the VPN servers with P2P and unlimited SimpleLogin aliases, but when I ask if it is worth the price I mean, the majority of those features I can have them having individually with others services and even at lower price.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

My oldest email account is from late 2008 and I've used a grand total of 2.04GB. I say this just to demonstrate how much storage email really needs.

Proton Unlimited - $120/yr, comes with:

500 GB storage
15 email addresses
3 custom email domains
VPN
ProtonPass

Alternatives:

Email: Fastmail: $60/yr

50 GB of storage
600 aliases
100 domains
Included static site web hosting

Storage:

Wasabi: $7/TB/Mo and more flexible since it's S3 and there are tons of tools for S3.

Password manager:

Bitwarden: $10/yr

The only one I have trouble with is VPN. A while back I would have said Mullvad but unfortunately they don't do port forwarding anymore so not so great for P2P.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can you recommend wasabi storage personally?

I never heard of it and I've been shopping for a cloud backup.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I use it personally.

It’s where my restic backup goes and I’ve had 0 issues.

I’m considering switching to B2 since I think it would be a little cheaper but I haven’t used that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know if fastmail is an appropriate comparison as it isn't e2ee and if you're getting proton unlimited, you're probably gonna go for the 2-year plan, which is cheaper, at $7.99/month ($95.88/year).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I had protonmail for a few years. Guess how many e2e encrypted emails I sent.

You can also get encryption in Fastmail by using something like Mailvelope.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

At least proton doesn't have access to the emails. Also, I actually have used it. This one time this dr asked me to send medical stuff to their yahoo mail. I was like hell no let me send you the password to my encrypted email.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Oh, that isn't the encryption feature I was thinking of. You're talking about a password protected email, not E2EE, though that may technically be E2EE.

That's super shitty of your doc by the way, but you already know that.

I have used the password protected email feature before, once, in the few years I used Proton.

I've also sent password protected .zip files with 7-zip.

It just doesn't come up that often and there are other ways around it. And for E2EE, I have Mailvelope.