What is your experience with Proton Unlimited?

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1

Considering de-microsofting and buying proton unlimited. Got a mix of Windows, Linux and iOS.
What is your experience with Proton unlimited? Good/Bad?

2

I’m using Proton since many years and I’m really happy about!

3

I’m in the process of de-googling and I’m quite happy so far. Proton pass/Simple login is awesome.

I just wish they allow syncing SL Alias into PP (which I hear is coming).

Tip: you can create a lot of aliases quickly using the template they have in Simple login.

Tip2: set your custom domain at SL if you want to use your own @customdomain.com aliases, not in Protonmail. I just spent time doing the switchover.

4

Mail, VPN and Pass are ok. Other products are not production ready.

5

Visionary since 2017.

  • ProtonMail has never given me issues. Does exactly what I need from a mail service. I used the iOS app in the past and it worked fine. I use the Android app now and it works fine.

  • ProtonVPN has worked well for me on all devices on Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android. Only recently an I having trouble in Linux, having to wait a long time for internet to be accessible after connecting to the VPN.

  • ProtonDrive is good for me. I use it as my cloud backup for all my data, especially pictures. It’s not lightning fast, but it works. I was thrilled when they came out with photo backup on mobile because that was my biggest worry being on GrapheneOS, no easy backup solution of all my photos. I really hope they make a desktop Linux app like they say they will. If they don’t, in the next year, I’ll probably downgrade my membership.

  • Support has been good, but I’m also a visionary member so I think they prioritize us.

6

I’m going into my second year of Proton Unlimited. I think it’s worth it.

You get SimpleLogin, which is extremely valuable for privacy and email management. I use it all the time and have an alias for almost everything I sign up for.

ProtonVPN is definitely top 3 VPNs. Does everything I need it to. Supports port-forwarding too which is huge depending on what you’re doing with it…

ProtonMail is great too. It’s just an email service after all, so it’s nothing special, but it’s nice to know that my emails in my inbox are encrypted and not being scanned (cough cough Google).

While I don’t use ProtonPass (I self-host Vaultwarden on my home server), it is definitely useable and I probably would use it if it was self-hostable.

I use it on Windows, MacOS, iOS and have used it on Linux in the past. Works great on all (although Linux support is generally behind all the other platforms from what I remember)

7

I’m a Duo member (basically the same). Happy with everything. I degoogled a while back when they locked me out for no reason for “suspicious activity”.

No issues with any product. I love their VPN. Email is fantastic. I even ported over my custom domain name. Calendar is okay and coming along. I also switched from 1Pass to Proton Pass and love it. It seems to even work better.

8

Excellent for email. Also using pass to generate aliases. But drive is a struggle to be used as a daily driver. Unlimited subscriber to support the product team. Also waiting for a real integreation with standard notes, even if i’m Also a paid user

9

I use iOS, iPadOS, macOS and Linux. (Primarily iOS/Linux)

Mail & Pass are great across all. Calendar could use some work but works for basic calendar requirements. Drive is pretty much unusable on Linux so I’m sticking with pCloud until they fix that. I don’t have any need for VPN so don’t know about that one.

10

Good. Only downside is the limited 500GB storage.

11

I’ve also been a user for many years, and am quite satisfied. They often have a slow delivery for new features which is an issue for some people. However if you’re fine with the features they currently offer - you won’t go wrong.

12

Many things work quite well, but in my opinion there are still too many problems to recommend Proton unreservedly:

  • Drive is totally buggy
  • Calender has no widgets and on the computer it shares an app with Mail
  • You can’t search for mail content in the mail-app (iOS)
  • The proton.me, pm.me and also the simple login aliases are repeatedly rejected by websites and cannot be used
  • Many minor errors

The only product I would really miss is SimpleLogin. For everything else there are better alternatives (mailbox.org, Tuta, Mullvad, Tresorit,…) Pass also works well, but here too there are alternatives (Bitwarden,…). For a complete changeover, I would therefore certainly NOT recommend Proton at the moment. I really hope they fix some stuff, but after reading and reading here I have not the feeling that they’re pretty fast.

13

I really like it for the email, vpn and pass experience. Calendar for me is completly unusable and drive only works as a glorified redundant backup for certain things I have already backed up elsewhere, also have a backup for pass in case something fails.

For me is worth it since paying the vpn and email by itself is more expensive so anything extra I get in unlimited is a plus, and I wouldn’t use any other alternative for these two things.

14

It’s okay so far. Had it for a couple months. Mostly use mail and pass. Slowly moving things over from Gmail to test the waters. Only complaints so far are that emails load times are significantly slower, I’m assuming it’s encryption related, and about half the time when I click an email notification it doesn’t load the body in the app and I have to go back and click it from the list view (iOS). I’ll be looking at other services when my year is up. I might stay, I might not.

15

It’s functional and offers a privacy and security benefit. Each of the services work. The way I describe it though as at first you’ll think it’s perfect but then the more you use it, you’ll start to discover minor things that are missing or don’t work the way they should.

16

It’s a bad idea to have all your eggs in one basket.

17

Unless you’re ready to deal with missing features and half-useable app ecosystem, don’t do it.

If you’re only on Windows, perhaps it’s ok.
Kind of sht experience on Linux.

18

Thank you all. My main thing is really Mail, Pass and Drive.
How regular is Proton with product updates?

19

The biggest things I use are simplelogin with emails forwarding to proton, and ProtonVPN. I would pay for the premium of simplelogin and vpn so those are worth it.

For email, I use iCloud on a custom domain. I need something that I can search easily and encrypted mail just doesn’t play nice with that. And I want my emails accessible offline on my phone, which can’t be done with proton yet.

Security and convenience are a tradeoff and you need to find where on that spectrum you are.

20

My experience has been nothing than good with Proton. I use their services every day, can’t live without anymore.