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Slippery_John | 1 year ago

I got hit by some privacy gamma radiation I wanna say 5 or 6 years ago. Did some research and they seemed like a good fit. I really liked the idea of being able write my own filters in script form rather than via some horrid form like what Google had at the time.

I've mostly been happy. There was a bug at one point where the iOS app couldn't delete more than 10 emails at a time, which may still be there. I haven't had to do a purge for a long time so I've not checked.

Otherwise, pretty great. I don't care about having a desktop client - never did with gmail and never have with proton. Aside from the aforementioned bug the iOS app has been good enough. The filtering features worked just like I hoped, and with catchall addressing I've been able to detect a few data breaches, on a few occasions before the company in question did.

VPN works well. I wish I could just pin my favorite connnection on the desktop app since I only ever use the one. I've got it set up on my router as a toggle, but I don't usually want my whole network switching.

I don't use the calendar, I've got a paper calendar instead because I like the art and having it in my face makes me actually look at it.

I also don't use drive. I really don't have much data honestly outside of my media collection which is too big for such storage services, and backed up with the physical media anyway. I pay for iCloud for easy backup and photo storage, and so I just put the handful of docs I need to sync there. And none of that is stuff I'd care much if it leaked. No nudes, no tax documents.

Pass is pretty great. I'd been using LastPass for ages and eventually migrated to BitWarden after being unhappy with the offering for a while. Then recently I switched to Pass since I was already paying for it essentially. I really like the email aliasing feature, since that's something I was already doing manually via catch-alls. My only complaint is that it's not obvious that I can just respond to emails sent to that alias without compromising my actual address. I'd really like for it to be part of the mail UI. With my hand-crafted aliases I always just created a new user whenever I needed to respond, and it'd be great if I didn't have to do that and could just use the same system as protonpass. Because it's so much nicer.

For reference, I'm on a (legacy) Visionary plan that gives me access to everything, which is very similar to the current family plan.

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protonmail|1 year ago

Thank you for your feedback! We've passed on your Proton Pass-related suggestion to the development team.

Regarding the Proton Mail iOS bug - that's been fixed.

blackhaj7|1 year ago

Useful - thanks for sharing!