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Proton's Free plan now offers up to 5 GB (up from 1 GB) on Proton Drive and 1 GB (up from 500 MB) on Proton Mail after completing certain tasks. (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12202255

Announcement from the Proton team on Reddit (Libreddit link):

Today, we’re increasing file storage limits on the free plan.

Instead of sharing 1 GB between files and email, you’ll now have:

5 GB for Proton Drive

1 GB for Proton Mail

Additional context: For Proton Drive, you now start with 2 GB and for Proton Mail, you start with 500 MB. After signing up for the Free plan, you can unlock the maximum storage allowance on each service thus:

You can boost your Proton Mail storage from 500 MB to 1 GB by completing four account setup actions.

You can boost your Proton Drive storage from the default 2 GB to 5 GB by completing three tasks.

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[–] tiny_electron@sh.itjust.works 51 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Good to see not everything is going through enshitification. Thanks Proton!

[–] gonta@mander.xyz 48 points 8 months ago (6 children)

It's because they're still in the early stage of enshittification, "first, they are good to their users."

I hope my pessimistic ass is wrong; only time will tell. I just feel like some part of Proton's marketing strategy doesn't do it for me.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

They are ten years in at this point. I think they are doing it right.

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 14 points 8 months ago

Enshitifcation happens when users, advertisers, and investors are all competing for resources. With Proton, the users are the investors and there are no advertisers. Users are paying customers. It won't get enshitified.

[–] simonced@lemmy.one 10 points 8 months ago

I am using their services for a couple years now, and their plan have increased, but not my bill. I still pay the same price as when I subscribed. That's howt you keep customers. Also, they increase storage from time to time.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think it's because a lot of other companies did the same thing, Google Drive and Dropbox also had these 'do tasks and get more space' promos

My personal issue with the above is privacy issues (mainly dropbox with the automatic opt-in AI thing), so who knows. Maybe it'll be ok

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 2 points 8 months ago

Proton drive is end to end encrypted so all your files are kept private

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

You're right, they're trying to get you into the service so when the price goes up there is inertia and friction to leave.

[–] planetluxury@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think Proton is fine for using as an email for signing up for websites just for the sake of avoiding Gmail, but I wouldn't advise anyone to get fully integrated with their ecosystem for syncing contacts, calendars, files, etc. For people concerned with privacy there's better options.

[–] diffusive@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Like what? They have servers in Switzerland, they seem competent.

Anything that is based in the US is not privacy friendly by law (at least for not-US citizens, see why US will never be an equivalent country for GDPR)

Anything that is implemented/maintained by incompetent is not privacy friendly by NSA/hackers/you name it

[–] Shadywack@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

It's great to see a service strategy that revolves around delivering value to your users, who then recommend it on your behalf, instead of revolving around delivering the least value while extracting the most revenue possible, so you can hand it to shareholders after executive compensation eats it up.

Way to go Proton! Easiest money I spend every year too.

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My free Dropbox account has 23GB of storage. They did this kind of stuff when starting out.

[–] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

My free Dropbox had 100gb for years, but then they decided that was too much and nerfed it to 10gb. At least I could still access my files.

[–] Trollception@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I think I've seen this somewhere before. Hey it's just like Google from years back. Oh and like OneDrive. Oh yea and YouTube before they started showing ads. It's almost like a good business tactic to get people hooked on a service with free benefits early on only to raise the prices later and reap the rewards.

[+] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml -27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

fwiw i deleted the crossposts of this post from /c/privacy@lemmy.ml and /c/opensource@lemmy.ml (because protonmail is a faux-opensource snakeoil privacy product) and flagged the posts in other communities as spam.

i encourage anyone who thinks protonmail's non-interoperable end-to-end encryption is useful to read my comment about it here.

edit: wow, such downvotes. i elaborated here.

[–] SniffDoctor@lemmy.ml 12 points 8 months ago

I'm not a secret agent or criminal, I just want an alternative to Google/Microsoft's suite that doesn't blatantly harvest all my information and try to sell me things based on it.

[–] ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

i deleted the crossposts of this post from /c/privacy@lemmy.ml and /c/opensource@lemmy.ml (because protonmail is a faux-opensource snakeoil privacy product) and flagged the posts in other communities as spam.

I find your response discouraging, and your actions appear excessive. While Proton may not be flawless, it does offer superior privacy protection when compared to commonly used options like Google and Microsoft.

I volunteered my time and effort to craft the post, including citations, offering more background information, and incorporating reliable links to official resources. However, you made claims without substantiation, deleted the crossposts of my post from /c/privacy@lemmy.ml and /c/opensource@lemmy.ml, and flagged the posts in other communities as spam. Your decision seems to be unsupported by members of the four communities I had shared my post to.

It's disheartening to see such actions taken without proper consideration, thereby causing harm to the privacy community at large. Avoiding hasty decisions that may stifle valuable contributions within the privacy community should be paramount. Consequently, I respectfully ask you to reconsider your initial reaction, abstaining from premature removals rooted in personal opinions devoid of solid backing.

By embracing a balanced stance that values both freedom of expression and responsible fact-checking, we contribute positively towards nurturing healthy debates and maintaining transparent communication channels. In light of this, I hope you will take the necessary steps to reinstate the removed posts, allowing for continued conversation on their merits.

Edit: You have now banned me from both of those communities.

Edit: You have deleted another post of mine from c/privacy@lemmy.ml that was titled "Chat Control May Finally Be Dead: European Court Rules That Weakening Encryption Is Illegal", with your reason being that it is "snakeoil spam" even though the community members do not think so (the post has more than 750 upvotes)

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml -3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You have now banned me from both of those communities

I actually banned you from both of them at the same time I deleted those two protonmail posts, but then unbanned you a minute later after reviewing your account further.

You can view your modlog here.

You have deleted another post of mine

I commented about that deletion here.

[–] WallEx@feddit.de 9 points 8 months ago

Wtf are you doing, moderators like you make enjoying this federation very difficult. Maybe try to accept that your view isn't the only valid one.

[–] sugartits@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You must be a lot of fun at parties.

Just because you personally don't like a service or it fails some silly purity test you made up doesn't give you some right to censor news about it.

Stand down as a moderator: what little power you have has already gone to your head and now you're activity harming the communities you're supposed to be protecting.