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Who the (heck) put ads in my proton pass (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 day ago by LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de to c/protonprivacy@lemmy.world
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Maybe I should've hopped the train way earlier, or maybe I'm just a whiny bitch, but I do NOT want to see pop-up ads on my paid service, especially for an even more expensive plan. Like dude, come on.

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[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Forcing ads onto paying customers means it's now time to start migrating away from Proton. I also have an ad stuck on my email home page "End of summer sale" I've got a year left on my Unlimited account. No need for this crap.

First stop is upgrading Tuta and sign up with Addy. After that start changing accounts to Addy aliases.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 hours ago

Bitwarden is great, or KeePass if you want truly offline storage.

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You can disable it somewhere in settings.

[–] hetzlemmingsworld@lemmings.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My Pass desktop app (which shown an offer for Proton Duo) does not have such option. But the frequency of the popups does not bother me significantly and it is sometimes useful. I am Unlimited user.

[–] DahGangalang 2 points 1 day ago

Would have posted a guide to get to the switch, but couldn't find it on the Android app (though I've never seen an ad popup there).

[–] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

And here I was wondering when Duo the owl turned orange and grew a stem.

[–] Steve@communick.news 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They do it once, a couple times a year, when they have a sale on.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't that a promo for Proton itself?

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Also known as an advertisement

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Sure. An ad for a promo of a product by the firm whose product I'm using does not cross any lines for me and it doesn't even register as an ad in the colloquial sense in my mind. It's like when my local bike shop worker co-op asks me if I want some other product or service when I'm ordering. But I do ubderstand this isn't a universal view.

[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 4 points 11 hours ago

For me it really depends show Intrusive and frequent it is shown. Being an ad for you a product I'm already using, in said product buys a little grace but there's still a line.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

To me, it feels exactly like Windows advertising Edge, Bing, Cortana, copilot, and onedrive. Which is to say, scummy.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Isolating the market power context, yeah. But that's an important differrence. Is it the dominant player in the product line you're using that you more less have no choice but to use, or is it a small firm with next to no such power doing it. Is it a for-profit enterprise exercising their market power to maximize profits or is it a small non-profit trying to maintain sustaimability. I would react with curses to MS doing it, while being unbothered or even appreciative in the latter case. Assuming this isn't happening with such frequency as to cause annoyance.

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Tuuuuuu taaaaaaa

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It's calling you all...

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck that. They don't even support pgp, so it's not really a replacement

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

PGP is a layer on top of email, it depends on your client.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Not with proton it doesn't. And that's the point. They do it for you, so you can't fuck it up

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Proton did not reinvent the email protocol, they simply implemented PGP into the web client.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 14 hours ago

Yes. Do you know of an alternative that does this?

[–] cardfire@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I use Tuta and love it. I miss my calendar talking with others' and I have to accept an extra refresh every time I want to read an email I received, but it lets me feel very smug, self righteous and secure.

If they offered a task/notes app I would be soooo happy.

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can highly recommend KeePassXC. Works on Windows, Linux, Android and on Mac and iPhone (Strongbox if you are on Apple, by same file works).

I used to sync with pcloud but I use syncthing now instead.

[–] pfr@piefed.social 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or for those not interested in the fine grained control of keepassxc, bitwarden is free and has a great app and browser extensions

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Bitwarden is my goto choice if not keepass. My partner has it and is happy with it. I'm not constantly bothered with questions so I am also happy.

[–] cardfire@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago

Can't it be both? I am certainly a whiny bitch who fired platform vendors for serving me ads after I gave them money.

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I got this today too. I would have jumped on it if my wife were interested in switching

[–] Substance_P@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

My wife was so I guess it worked, but honesty we all needed a VPN.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

You must be new here.

[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Do you have the free version? I have a paid subscription and I get very little ads. I only get announcement for new services in my email.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Oh what a sick deal!