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Mostly out of curiosity, but also somewhat related to Proton's recent political involvement, I'm curious about alternatives to using their services, open to suggestions for:

  • Proton Mail: anything that can support custom domain, email aliases, and email scheduling?
  • Proton Drive: not the most important, but interested in privacy first, encrypted hosting services
  • Proton Pass: anything I should take a look at besides Bitwarden and Keepass?
  • Proton VPN: that one's the hardest, it was really good, I think Mullvlad is the one most often recommended?
  • Proton Calendar: didn't really care about that one, but it was nice that it connected to Mail

My Unlimited plan renewed in December so I'll probably keep it for a year, it was nice having only one subsctiption to keep in mind, but I'm thinking of exploring other options

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[–] hellfire103 29 points 1 day ago (9 children)

If you must:

  • Proton Mail/Calendar ➡️ Posteo, Tutanota, Mailbox.org
  • Proton Drive ➡️ Tresorit, Nextcloud, Filen, Syncthing, MEGA
  • Proton Pass ➡️ KeePass
  • Proton VPN ➡️ Mullvad VPN, IVPN, Windscribe
  • Proton Wallet ➡️ Cake Wallet, Electrum

Some of these don't have first-party mobile or desktop clients, so here are some apps to use them with:

  • Posteo & Mailbox.org - Thunderbird (desktop, Android), FairEmail (Android), Evolution (Unix-like), Geary (Unix-like), Claws Mail (desktop), Fossify Calendar + DAVx^5^ (Android)
  • KeePass: KeePassXC (desktop), KeePassDX (Android), KeePassium (iOS)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'll just add:

  • Proton drive => Seafile (selfhosted)
  • protonpass => bitwarden
[–] hellfire103 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I stopped using Bitwarden. Unless I'm mistaken, they were about to start doing some closed-source stuff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That's not exactly what happened, they pushed more of their code into their own library that was not permissively licensed but then they open sourced it so the issue was resolved. https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/11611#issuecomment-2436287977

[–] hellfire103 1 points 17 hours ago
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