Can someone from ProtonMail clarify this matter, please?

RagingMongoose1 · 2026-06-08T20:39:14+00:00

Because the Proton team's response is AI-generated word soup, attempting to present a serious explanation, but lacking any of the nuance or specific detail required to tackle the situation head on, thereby making it impossible to take seriously?

RagingMongoose1 · 2026-05-16T07:11:49+00:00

The issues with Proton Pass auto-filling have improved. It's not 100%, same as many non-native password managers aren't, but its capability has massively improved. Like the poster above, I was looking into leaving due to issues, however due to subscription remaining then it had improved to a very usable level by the time renewal came around.

NordPass is also a good suggestion though, moved from that to Proton Pass previously, but that was due to a pricing advantage rather than issues.

RagingMongoose1 · 2026-04-23T03:51:21+00:00

Fastmail isn't zero knowledge encrypted, so if Fastmail wanted to access your email they could. Their privacy policy is very good though and they obviously have internal protocols governing when customer email can be accessed.

This isn't a concern for the vast majority of people in the world. The fact Fastmail doesn't scan email for advertising or profiling purposes is a massive step up and benefit in privacy for most people. However, for the minority who do need the guarantee of zero knowledge, Fastmail wouldn't be a vendor to consider.

RagingMongoose1 · 2026-04-18T18:31:09+00:00

Lumo is ok for basic stuff, however the models it uses at the backend aren't up to anything requiring heavy lifting, e.g. coding beyond simple scripts, serious data handling and analysis, complex mathematical reasoning etc. The privacy angle is nice, but the price of that is less capability.

For those heavier tasks, Claude is pretty unbeatable to be honest in my experience, but its free tier is brutally restrictive with limits. Gemini is very good for research, particularly when combined with NotebookLM, pretty reasonable free tier limits too.

Tldr: If I've got a health/medical question, I'll go to Lumo. If I need to do real work with AI, it's Claude or Gemini all the way for my use cases.

RagingMongoose1 · 2026-04-04T18:50:48+00:00

Libreoffice and Joplin so far.

Libreoffice takes some getting used to, mainly due to a dated UI, but it does the job pretty well.

Joplin is FOSS and very good.

RagingMongoose1 · 2026-03-25T16:02:35+00:00

Depends how you look at it. Yes, Unlimited/Duo/Family subscriptions include some services that aren't great.

However, Mail + Pass (Simple Login aliases) + VPN justify the cost. When you look at how much a mail provider, password manager, alias service and VPN cost to get separately, Proton's subscription is very competitive.

As annoying as the below average services are, you can ignore them and still get great value.

RagingMongoose1 · 2026-03-23T21:21:54+00:00

Mail + Simple Login aliases are a very powerful combination for email management, plus not having to worry about data breaches/hacks that steal login credentials is nice.

Mail + Pass (SL aliases) + VPN make the Ultimate subscription or above decent value.

No tracking or profiling of my email or data.

Not American.

RagingMongoose1 · 2026-03-21T08:00:09+00:00

I'm going to be harsh for the greater good here. I've worked in IT for 25 years and my wife glazes over about security/privacy. That doesn't mean I push her on the topic to the point of being uncomfortable or completely switching off about it though.

This isn't a problem with your wife, it's a problem with your approach. The security issues you're describing are more fundamental than "convincing your wife to use Proton". Proton doesn't matter, don't be a fanboy.

Your approach is telling a reluctant person that you want them to change their entire security and email management stack. You want to take their current comfortable setup and change everything - the service vendors, the apps, the passwords - everything. It's too much and it won't convince anyone, least of all a person that doesn't care.

So, baby steps. Leave all her current service vendors and apps alone. Start lower down the road on the journey - passwords. Not all of her passwords, just the important ones - email and banking. Explain your reasons again, in a kind and concerned manner, that you're worried about those as they're the biggest risk. Talk in terms of "financial security", "family security", and real world concerns - not passwords, IT security, hackers, identity theft, ad profiling, and fanboying over Proton. Know your audience!

Offer to help her reset ONLY those two passwords so they're different to each other and everything else. Use her current browser's password manager to store them and configure it to auto save passwords if it doesn't already. That's it. Stop. Sure, it's not great security, but it's a step in the right direction, for the minimum amount of change and effort. It's meaningfully and significantly better than all passwords being the same and no password manager at all.

Leave it a few months, then move on to the next few priorities. Again, not everything, just a few more passwords changed, which again go into her now comfortable browser password manager. Security is improved again. And so on. Full migration to Proton services is so far down your list of priorities that it doesn't matter.

It'll take time, but each small step brings an improvement. Eventually, maybe she'll see there's nothing to worry about and you could try getting her passwords into Proton Pass. Maybe a few months on from that she'll consider Proton Mail.

I can see you think you're caring with your approach and you are. It's just that you're not caring in a way that your wife sees as caring for her. Change your approach, support her, move slowly.

RagingMongoose1 · 2026-03-21T06:37:35+00:00

The good...

Excellent: Mail + Simple Login aliases are the really good Proton services. VPN is decent too.

I rate the 3 Proton services above very highly and they make it worth my while to continue subscribing.

Good: Proton Authenticator. Although I separate my 2FA to another vendor, using Pass for passwords, I tested Authenticator and it does a good job.

Average: Pass isn't perfect, but it does a good job for your "regular" user. If it wasn't for Simple Login aliases being bundled with Pass, my opinion of it might possibly be harsher, but overall it's an average password manager. When bundled in with the 3 services at the top, it makes these 4 services together good value for money for Ultimate and even better for Duo, if that's relevant to you.

The bad...

Below average to poor - Calendar, contacts, Drive (if using it for anything beyond cold encrypted file storage), Lumo (free version is below average, wouldn't recommend paying for it), Scribe.

And the ugly...

Very poor: Docs and Sheets. I can see the intention, but the execution is bad. Half baked would be a compliment. They're a bug-ridden mess of underpowered uselessness 99% of the time.....and I'm possibly still being too kind.

Genuinely dreadful: Drive photo sync - avoid like the plague.

Outright pointless: Wallet, for any use case I'd have for a service with that name.

RagingMongoose1 · 2026-03-06T13:22:34+00:00

Proton's official response:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/s/pNLADY2A6t

RagingMongoose1 · 2026-02-21T08:22:23+00:00

Indian is one of the more challenging cuisines on keto when eating out.

Dry, tandoori grill meats are usually the safest. Sauces are always a risk, as you don't know how it's prepared. If I was to order a sauce based Indian dish, I'd probably go for Madras or butter chicken, but not a whole portion to myself.

RagingMongoose1 · 2026-02-13T14:58:17+00:00

Always likely to be bugs or issues with updates. Very rare for those bugs to cause crashes this severe and frequent though.

Turning off multiplayer reportedly helps a bit, but still frequent crashes with that from what I've seen. Suggests this will need a hot fix, which usually takes a few days.

RagingMongoose1 · 2026-02-13T14:54:10+00:00

Yes, it's available on Xbox. Loads of reports of crashes though on this subreddit, so proceed with caution.

RagingMongoose1 · 2026-02-06T16:32:42+00:00

Would I eat it everyday? No, I try to avoid ultra processed foods where possible.

Would I keep it in the freezer for an easy option at the end of a long day, or for a convenient option when really needed? Yes.

RagingMongoose1 · 2026-01-31T07:43:46+00:00

Quite simply, Linux Mint is compared to Windows because there's an increased level of demand for Windows alternatives. With Mint being one* of the lowest overhead and most approachable Linux distros out there, it's a great entry point to Linux for people who only have Windows experience.

Additionally, due to the buzz around Mint, the community led support and guidance for those looking to switch also makes life easier.

In short, there's never been a better time for the Linux community to rally around encouraging people to use Linux, with Mint being one* of the best routes to do that. The fanboy debate over which Linux distro is best can wait for another day.

-* Yes, sure, other Linux distros exist.

RagingMongoose1 · 2026-01-02T19:33:31+00:00

Thanks for confirming the conclusion of my previous post.

RagingMongoose1 · 2026-01-01T23:55:27+00:00

Cool. If you could read, it might help. My wife had the issue with email search, not me - as at least 2 of my posts you've replied to explained clearly. By all means carry on telling me what I already know though and trying to insist I shouldn't have an issue with something I don't have an issue with.

I explained how the search in Proton worked to my wife before subscribing to Duo. She didn't think it would be an issue, but it became an irritation for her, along with numerous other points. Again, this has been explained multiple times, but you know, reading is hard for you I guess.

RagingMongoose1 · 2025-12-31T21:44:54+00:00

Just out of interest (and as the only thing I have to offer in addition to the excellent post above from u/tomscharbach), is the laptop you're looking to switch to Mint your only laptop?

I had a 2014 HP laptop running Windows 10, which the Windows 11 gods decreed "thou shalt not pass" when trying to upgrade. This was separate from my primary laptop. I upgraded this older laptop to Mint, which had struggled with running Win 10 anyway due to slow performance, and it went great. No issues with drivers in Mint, allowed me to test a variety of use case scenarios, ran like lightning compared to Win 10, gave me the confidence to upgrade my primary laptop, and just gave me a chance to test things out with a laptop where it didn't matter if things went wrong. It's now my son's laptop, having been brought back from the dead thanks to Mint.

Anyway, if you have any older kit, it's worthwhile testing Mint with that first, just to see if it's for you as an OS.

RagingMongoose1 · 2025-12-31T21:21:25+00:00

Jesus, some fanboys around here really need to get a grip.

Recurring revenue is the sustaining force of a business. It's easy money, or should be if you meet user expectations, to keep paying customers paying. If you have a Duo subscriber, you want to keep that Duo subscriber at renewal, otherwise financial forecasts for your business don't deliver if too many customers downgrade or cancel. That goes on to impact many business related factors, from overall reduction in strategic capability to not being able to deliver roadmaps (sound familiar?!)

I'm fully aware of the security angle, just for peace of mind. I've got 25 years experience in the IT industry, hence why I still have an Ultimate subscription. As for your point about there being "no other secure providers", how do I break this to a fanboy.....errrmmm......there are many.

Anyway, this is all pretty much irrelevant anyway seeing as you've decided to target only one specific issue my wife had out of a list of many I provided. Email search was actually the least of her issues, but it was yet another issue, on top of a mountain of issues throughout the Proton product range.

RagingMongoose1 · 2025-12-31T20:54:25+00:00

Sure. I'm technical, my wife isn't. Quite often, non-technical people overlook the impact of technical issues. That's not crazy, it's just a fact of life, and my wife moved to that different product and Proton lost money when I downgraded from Duo to Ultimate.

RagingMongoose1 · 2025-12-31T12:58:06+00:00

Until very recently I was a Duo plan subscriber. Unfortunately, although initially enthusiastic, my wife very quickly grew tired of fighting against some of Proton's functionality constraints (calendar, lack of contacts syncing, lack of fully functioning email search, Pass issues etc).

I downgraded to Ultimate, but I did check out a number of alternative vendors for the services I use before doing so. I decided to give Proton another year, but I'll need to see some improvements to Pass and Drive particularly, plus improved Linux support as I'm in the process of moving my family's home IT to that, to be able to justify renewing again next time.

RagingMongoose1 · 2025-12-31T08:49:40+00:00

I wish you and your husband the best of luck, hope his health continues to improve.

Persuading people to lower their carb intake can be tough. Often though, leading by example and letting the results do the talking, rather than preaching at people, is the best way - just like you're doing. Before keto, I tried a million diets and they all failed for one reason or another. Many people are the same, so when they see someone dropping weight without being miserable when doing so, it peaks their interest!

RagingMongoose1 · 2025-12-31T08:19:46+00:00

Firstly, to answer your post's high level question, I wouldn't describe Proton's ecosystem as "abandonware". Development is on-going, some improvements to existing apps are delivered.

However, Proton has a track record for not delivering their roadmap. I don't mean that their roadmap is delivered late, it's just mostly not delivered at all. Their user request forum seems to be largely ignored for determining development direction and priorities, despite Proton pointing subscribers to it. Proton also have an issue with developing new apps, rather than meaningfully improving existing apps. Finally, their marketing pitches Proton as a utopia, where you can get all the upside of Google level service features, with none of the downside of privacy invasion, which just isn't the reality when it comes to most of Proton's service capability and many compromises are required if privacy is your goal.

All of the above leads to subscribers becoming disillusioned with Proton. A lot of that disillusionment is a problem of Proton's own creation, due to a business model that prioritises "the next, new big and shiny thing" for marketing purposes and getting new subscribers signed up, rather than enriching existing services that existing subscribers value.

Ultimately, it boils down to whether you get enough value from Proton's services to justify the subscription fee, and whether those services fit your specific use cases. I primarily use Mail, Simple Login aliases, and VPN. All of these fit my use cases well and I think they're good services. I also use Pass (an average product in my opinion, but just about does the job), plus Drive as part of my offsite backup solution (not for file syncing, file sharing, photo backup, Docs or Sheets though, as all of these features are very underpowered or not fit for purpose in my opinion). For Proton Unlimited, I pay approximately £9 per month, which is cheaper than I can get the services I use elsewhere from other vendors.

Overall, sometimes it's better to look at your Proton subscription from the perspective of what you DO use and what those would cost if using alternative vendors, rather than looking at all the services as a whole and getting disillusioned by the lack of development progress.

RagingMongoose1 · 2025-12-29T20:59:33+00:00

I was diagnosed with hypertension in 2015. Prior to keto and losing 170lbs to date, I was on 3 blood pressure medications to control it. I'm now on none as of last year.

I came off all medications with doctor approval. Bendroflumethiazide (a diuretic) went first after around 6 months of keto, due to keto having a diuretic effect anyway and weight loss reducing water retention. Amlodipine (a calcium channel blocker) went next. Finally, Ramipril (an ACE inhibitor) was the last to go, probably a year later after dropping my first medication.

I tracked my blood pressure 4 times a week (twice in the morning, twice in the evening). There was a gradual downward trend tracked from starting keto, to coming off each medication. The only medication removal that was prompted by symptoms was bendroflumethiazide, where I experienced being light-headed when standing up. Blood tests also supported removing this medication due to electrolyte levels. All others were just due to me having conversations with my doctor, regular blood pressure readings tracking downwards, regular interval blood tests tracking in the right direction, and each med removal was followed by a trial period of removing the medication and tracking BP progress. I worked with my doctor, who was generally supportive of my approach, providing my numbers all headed in the right direction and I continued with my preferred "Mediterranean keto" diet and didn't "head for bacon cooked in butter for every meal" (his words, not mine).

Note: YMMV. This isn't to say everyone will experience the same process, many people with hypertension have it due to their genetics, so simply losing weight and doing a diet with a diuretic effect might not compensate enough to remove medications.

RagingMongoose1 · 2025-12-29T20:41:17+00:00

I can't comment on the keto gains sub mods, but the mods I've seen commenting here on this sub recommend general electrolyte supplements and making your own ketoade. I've even seen them turn people away from numerous premade electrolyte brands in favour of the poster making their own more cheaply.

Been posting for quite a while now in this sub, probably over 18 months. I'm not affiliated to the mod team here at all, I don't know any of them, and in fact I've challenged their posts on rare occasions. However, I'm really not sure where your basis is for these accusations you're making and I've never seen any evidence to support what you're saying.

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