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AnimalsDream

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  • Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

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  • According to other comments in this thread, Bitwarden does similar crap. I went back to Keepass.

    As for the data, luckily it was for an account I don't need or use anymore, so I just deleted everything and moved on.

  • Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

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  • Yeah, I tried to be charitable and assume they were just ignorant of how bad Trump is. I should have known better.

  • Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

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  • Yeah and all of that hate is deserved, because their products suck, and so do the people who run the company.

  • Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

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  • Uh no. First off, I'm not on the free tier. I'm not on the most expensive tier, but I do pay for my account $4.99 monthly. Second, I used the built in features exactly as intended. Every login entree in Proton Pass has the option to add additional fields that you can name. That's what I did, every security question being the name, and every answer being the data filled in. There was nothing to circumvent, because at least according to their pricing plans, even the free tier claims to allow unlimited logins.

    It is literally ransomware. They allowed me to enter data in their program as intended, and then held that data ransom in order to pressure me into upgrading into a higher tier.

  • Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

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  • Yes, that's exactly how it worked, and it is ransomware.

  • Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

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  • I'm sorry, but what? Number one, we're talking about text. Bytes of data, which costs next to nothing to store. If you think that it is in any way fair for a company to allow a person to enter information into an account, and then unexpectedly charge them to access that same data, you are insane. If you paid for a storage rental, moved your belongings into it, and then found that the company changed the lock and decided you had to pay more to get your stuff - would you continue renting that storage?

    Go back to reddit, corposhill.

  • Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

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  • It's in Proton Pass. When you create an account entree, there is an option to create additional fields that you can name and fill out, kind of like multiple notes in one file. Somehow I was able to create those fields on my account just fine, but then to be given access to that data it turned out that I had to upgrade my account. In other words they duped me into entering data at no extra cost, but then charged me to access that same data later on.

  • Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

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  • Nothing is free, but there are proper ways to sell open-source and still respect user freedom. Proton's model is no different than Ubuntu's or Google's model. It's a grift.

  • Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

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  • I am on Proton Plus, $4.99 per month, which I now see does not appear to extend to Pass benefits. I've switched password managers already, and am going to be moving everything else over to other apps and services and cancelling my Proton accounts entirely.

  • Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

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  • I had to look into it again because their pricing models are weird and confusing. My current plan is something called Proton Plus, $4.99 per month, and evidently the benefits do not extend to Pass.

  • Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

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  • I had to look into it, because their pricing plans seem to have changed now. Evidently I have something called Proton Plus, $4.99 per month. It looks like that plans benefits do not extend to additional Proton Pass features.

    I'm going to be transferring accounts away from Proton and then closing my accounts entirely. Already moved all my passwords back to Keepass. My main email address has been on posteo(.de), which has been great. Super reliable service from a company who appears to actually get the ethos of FOSS. I only pay, I think $12 per year for their service.

  • Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

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  • You sound like the kind of person who, in the 90s, would have defended Microsoft against GNU and Linux and the FOSS movement as a whole, "This is the way the world works." No. I was using Keepass prior to Proton Pass. Proton proved to be a downgrade in every way. As a company they are in the same bracket as Ubuntu - trojan horse style grifters who wave juuust enough open-source around to lull users into dependency on a service that overall does not support user freedoms. They are grifters. It's the same playbook as Google.

    Software needs to be free on every level. It's fine to sell free software, but if any part of it is proprietary, it's as the FSF says - it's a tool of unjust power over you.

    And I don't need that. Better alternatives already exist. Proton was straight up a downgrade.

  • Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

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  • Yeah, I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt (because sunk cost fallacy), but this is only one of a number of issues I've had with them and I need to be more quick to acknowledge grift when I know I see it.

  • Toyota Owner Didn’t Know His Car Was Talking To Insurers Until He Saw His Rates

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  • In a sense that already exists, as I'm pretty sure there are extra plan benefits if you opt-in to more surveillance.

  • Toyota Owner Didn’t Know His Car Was Talking To Insurers Until He Saw His Rates

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  • Yeah, I'm fucking done with cars. Can't afford em anyway.

  • Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

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  • Keepass is tried and true, I'm going back to Keepass.

  • Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

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  • Should we not be allowed to host discussions, or make criticisms of companies who claim to support privacy, in a community about privacy?

    Hey mods just saying… I think a lot of us would appreciate having rules against comments like these.

  • Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

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  • I'm going to go with Keepass and Syncthing.

  • Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

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  • This is the route I'm taking. Keepass has always been tried and true. I switched from Keepass to Proton Pass for a while, and in more ways than this one complaint it has been very much a downgrade.

    Proton does not know how to make quality software.