DeGoogle Yourself

I have no qualms. I primarily use mail and VPN. I also use drive as a secondary backup of a handful of important things.

I think it's worth it.

1. The simplelogin integration with protonmail is pretty cool, they even allow you to share PGP key with your proton email and simplelogin account so every forwarded mail is encrypted.

2. The proton drive is pretty sweet, though, I haven't used much of it. I suspect I will be using more of it once there's a native Linux app, but, the web interface is still pretty fast and clean.

3. Proton calendar works well and I use it a lot

4. Protonvpn I use on all my devices with no problem, even at school which they try to block

5. Protonmail, works as you would expect so not much to say about that.

6. They genuinely care about the community and want to know your thoughts. The ceo himself stated something along the lines of the subscribers dictate which direction to take the company because there are no shareholders and there are no VCs.

https://protonmail.uservoice.com/

If you use all the services, sure.

I also think there is an argument to be made to just make separate accounts for each service instead of buying the bundle as its the best bang for your back.

I have it, I use proton Drive for mainly photo backup from my phone. Mail for my email, and the VPN service.

Totally worth it for me, all their apps run well on my phone and their web interface for email is great.

I agree, why put all your eggs in one basket? especially if the better alternative is cheaper.

If anything happens to your proton account, and you rely completely on their services, you could lose everything you have in your digital life, like 2fa codes, passwords, emails, photos and files, whatever else. Just like if someone in the google ecosystem lost their account, they'd lose their entire life almost. So it doesn't really make sense to me to pay more money, for a risk as big as that. I mean, convenience? they're all separate apps anyway. It's no different than using tuta mail, proton drive, bitwarden, and mullvad VPN. The icons are just different on your home screen.

I mean, you could also just self-host 🤷

I was using Protonmail, and their other services, and was a paying customer for over a year. But I stopped because of their poor Linux support, and not being able to receive email notifications on my de-googled phone. I made a shift to mailbox.org and am liking it. Yes, I have to manage my own PGP keys, but the experience is much better, in my opinion. Their storage even supports WebDAV. I can encrypt the whole inbox and the files stored in their drive with my own key.

But I miss their VPN service, which was good, but still, poor Linux support is what I hated the most.

I think it’s worth it. I use many of their services and they integrate nicely between each other and between different platforms. Plus, their customer service and tech support are excellent. I’m in the beta program and they’re always super responsive to bug reports and the like.

Worth is subjective. It sounds to me like it's not a fit to your criteria so I wouldn't recommend it.

Personally, I like it. I actively use email, drive, calendar, and VPN. Yes, they're all separate apps so it's not like its a true ecosystem, but its really the closest to a suite of products you'll get in the privacy world. Mostly though, I like what the company stands for and how they treat their customers.

Biggest issue I have is their password manager. It's been improved since I've tried it but it wasn't great. The main issue I had was it sharing the same password as the rest of it's apps. No. I want a single password manager password I can remember and then a unique, complex password for apps. So I use a separate password manager.

I also don't use their aliases. I tried to switch over and just didn't like how it handled the headers and how it worked with my sieve filters. One day I'll probably make the switch, but it just doesn't seem worth the time when Addy is $1/mo.