I’ve been a paid Proton Unlimited customer for several years now and aside from a few small complaints, I’m generally very happy with the services I’m paying for. I agree that there is too much focus on “sidequests” like Wallet and Meet before core products are fully rebuilt and meeting expectations. I agree that Linux versions and some feature implementations are taking a long time. However, I have a fully functioning suite of Mail, Drive, VPN, Calendar and more that meet 95% of my needs. To be fair, I’m sure the zero-access/zero-knowledge encryption aspect makes development much more difficult.
If you’re worried about political affiliations/interests, I’ll give you that Andy Yen has made a few worrisome comments. I’m not sure what to do there. Assuming there aren’t repeat occurrences, I’m satisfied with their statement about the French political figure sponsorship.
If it’s the FBI cases and subpoenas, it comes down to understanding the difference between privacy and anonymity, and knowing what strategy is required to achieve actual anonymity.
So why (especially on Lemmy) is there so much Proton hate/relunctancy? Eager to hear some non-biased, fact-driven thoughts here!
I’d recommend Tuta. (I use Proton myself, but still have a Tuta account as well)
They’ve got mail, calendar, and Drive coming soon. A good little selection of apps without too much, and their prices are quite reasonable. I will say though, you get less email aliases than Proton, no VPN bundled in, and their user interface is… simplistic, shall we say.
But, if all you really care about is just having an email and calendar, and soon having some basic cloud storage too, their prices are very reasonable and they haven’t had any major controversy I’ve heard of. (other than some people complaining about them allowing LLM-generated code in their repos, which I personally believe is fine as long as it’s reviewed by a human, who actually understands the commit, before approving it)