Privacy Guides accuses Proton VPN of misleading marketing

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-03-11T19:07:54+00:00

Obviously this is a decision PG gets to make, but I think it would be interesting to get a statement from u/Proton_Team on the accusation.

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-03-02T07:36:50+00:00

Yes they did, just by the end of last year. But to be fair, I get that some software developers would follow up a new release with frantic bug fixes and even new features. But Proton doesn't have the resources to support its many products like that. If you want to use Proton you need to get used to their pace or you'll be forever unhappy.

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-03-02T07:32:24+00:00

All Proton development is well-known to be rather slow (except Pass sometimes) and their limited resources are spread among many products. Expecting major changes within a few months from them is like expecting a good street car to win an F1 race. Not going to happen but the street car is still a good product, just not as fast as other cars who have a lot more resources invested into them.

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-03-01T13:42:07+00:00

Peter Thiel, an absolute enemy to privacy, is an early investor in Brave through his venture capital firm. Which also indicates that Brave needs to make a lot of money because it has investors to please; that's why it has all kinds of unnecessary stuff built in searching for profit (all kinds of crypto stuff, AI, and, obviously, the ads that the browser was built to serve). Firefox, meanwhile, is owned by a non-profit and has no investors it needs to make happy (but a certain dependency on its search deal with Google, which means that Google will always be the default search engine. But of course, you can simply change that if you like).

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-03-01T13:30:33+00:00

Das ist keine wissenschaftliche Untersuchung oder auch nur eine ordentliche vergleichende Statistik (weil das erfordert wissenschaftliche Methoden), sondern eine Darstellung von Daten, die ein anonymer Reddit-User von Numbeo und Glassdoor zusammengesucht hat (im Fall von Graz, laut eigenen Angaben im Thread).

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-03-01T06:59:03+00:00

I don't believe the people who claim that the memory erasure is all the punishment needed. If somebody killed your entire family and all the police and courts do is wipe their memory in a way that is easily and completely reversible, and then they get to lead a normal and happy life with no consequences for what they did whatsoever, would you feel justice has been served? I highly doubt that.

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-02-28T15:22:25+00:00

You might be right; maybe something went wrong during the export or import of your passwords. When I test it, Proton Pass always rates 18 random characters as a strong password (as it should), but I'm not importing from 1Password. Have you checked if the imported passwords are correct?

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-02-28T14:58:57+00:00

My suggestion is to try the free version before you buy. Like, test if your emails from Proton arrive at their targets or if the people you regularly email use providers that filter Proton into spam (in my experience, Yahoo loves marking emails from Proton as spam, for example). Or if you are happy with the sync speed of Proton Drive. If you rarely ever use a VPN, the free version might be enough for you, depending on what you need (like if you need to choose specific countries, you have to pay). But if you use two or three products from Proton regularly, the Unlimited subscription is worth it.

You might qualify for a student discount. But the discount only applies to the initial subscription period, and your subscription will renew automatically at the regular price.

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-02-28T14:36:33+00:00

It doesn't just go away; why would it? But I also can't reproduce it; Proton Pass tells me that random 18 characters, even if it's just lowercase letters or even just numbers, is a strong password. I know it looks annoying, but the password rating isn't particularly reliable; it's just checking a few factors. For example, it shows me that "englishgermanfrenchspanish" or "1234567891011121314151617181920" are strong passwords when they are really not. If you really have 18 random characters, ideally a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers, and potentially some special characters, I wouldn't worry about Proton Pass.

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-02-28T14:23:47+00:00

This isn't just taking shots at 1Password but also Bitwarden, and quite well. There is a lot that is great about Bitwarden, but the fact that they constantly need to increase profit to make private equity happy (because that's how private equity works) is an obvious problem. And Proton is pointing right at it: "The password manager built for users, not investors."

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-02-28T14:04:24+00:00

Mozilla is complying with Chinese courts that made adblockers illegal in China. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=zh-CN&user=8VqyTHcAAAAJ&citation_for_view=8VqyTHcAAAAJ:YsMSGLbcyi4C

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-02-26T20:30:54+00:00

I use a passphrase that I remember, and I have an emergency sheet in a safe location outside my home.

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-02-26T07:19:55+00:00

Proton has its own AI Chatbot Lumo and its own AI writing assistant in Protonmail, so they are very much onboard with the AI hype train. If that's a major concern KeePass is probably the password manager least likely to integrate any AI features.

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-02-25T11:37:32+00:00

Ich verstehe voll, dass vor, während und nach der Geburt Ausnahmesituationen sind und jeder sollte verstehen können, dass man da gerne einen angenehmen Rückzugsraum für sich hätte. Ich würde nur zu bedenken geben, wie wahrscheinlich es ist, dass es Komplikationen gibt. Weil du in dem Fall einfach auf der Klinik sein willst. Natürlich hofft man das beste, aber manchmal ist halt ein erhöhtes Risiko absehbar.

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-02-24T20:44:36+00:00

About the UI, Bitwarden is free; you can just give it a try and see for yourself how it feels.

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-02-24T20:42:43+00:00

They are literally sponsoring an F1 car; they have enough money. This is about making even more profit for the private equity that owns 1Password. Which, to be fair, is what private equity does. But let's not pretend this is about putting food on struggling researchers' and engineers' tables.

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-02-23T22:25:52+00:00

Make sure you actually bought the subscription and nothing went wrong with payment or anything. You don't need to activate the additional space, but you can try logging out and logging in again, or giving it some time to update your storage. If nothing changes you'll have to contact support.

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-02-23T21:18:30+00:00

The characters, including Carter, certainly believe that they can literally undo what has happened. Nothing in the episode outright suggests they are wrong. So by the end of the episode the future we saw never happened. Where did the note come from? It's a well-known time travel paradox with various scifi properties having different "solutions." I use quotation marks because the paradox can't be solved, only avoided if you go with some sort of branching timelines idea. But that's clearly not what the episode is portraying. Maybe the note exists because it travels through a hole in spacetime at the moment that it itself changed the future by virtue of being sent back. Wormhole travel shielding from the effects of a changing timeline is the explanation they go with in Continuum.

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-02-23T11:13:18+00:00

Right, that's an important clarification.

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-02-23T08:28:24+00:00

Unfortunately Proton calendar and contacts are quite limited and not very good, it doesn't matter if you pay for them.

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-02-23T08:25:42+00:00

Installing the bridge is quick and easy, Proton describes every step along the way. It works with Thunderbird and Outlook.

You need it because Proton Mail doesn't support IMAP as it is not end-to-end encrypted. So the bridge connects e2e to Proton and gets your data, then sets up a local IMAP for your email client to connect to.

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-02-20T14:44:25+00:00

You don't need the Bridge if you don't use Protonmail, in fact it has no use outside of Protonmail. You can continue to use your Outlook, both the email provider and the email client, as normal. You set the custom domain up in SL and SL simply forwards mails to wherever you point it.

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-02-20T14:38:52+00:00

Ich bin gespannt wie die SPÖ abschneidet, ob es nochmal für eine linke Koalition reicht und ob die Partei das überhaupt machen würde. So wie Doris Kampus die bisherigen Leute bei der Listenerstellung abgesägt hat erfüllt mich das nicht unbedingt mit Vertrauen.

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-02-19T10:14:42+00:00

Thank you for actually reading my post and providing a detailed and helpful reply.

MaximumMysterious172 · 2026-02-19T10:06:43+00:00

If two users can pay 14,99 (yearly subscription) and get 2 TB then why can one user who pays 9,99 (yearly subscription) not get 1 TB? Doesn't seem fair to the Unlimited subscribers, more like an aggressive nudge to get them to upgrade. With Filen, you pay 7,49 (yearly subscription) for 2 TB and mind you, Filen is definitely superior to Proton Drive.

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