You're paying the same price that you started paying years ago, which you must believe is worthwhile because you've been paying it foe this long, and you have more features available to use, which you can choose not to use. This is a ridiculous complaint.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
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You are the crazy one.
You're literally complaining about getting more products and services for the same price.
Do you have any evidence that your imagined Mail+Calendar service would be cheaper or better, if not for all these other things? Or is it all just assumptions on your part?
I genuinely don't understand why you and so many others apparently Want to dislike Proton. Want to dislike it so much, you make up these silly nonsensical excuses.
Did the price go up? Or did you just get more features that you don't need to use?
You're not the only one to say so
That said, you don't have to use what you don't want and the lower price tiers only have the mail.
I like that youtuber. I'll be sure to watch that vid when I get home later. At this point if they won't give us a "no bloat" package I'm likely to go to Tuta this year. Already using my own domain so it's hardly going to be difficult.
Can warn you that Tuta seems to be getting bloated with useless features and completely neglecting their mail and calendar this year too as they’re gonna release their drive.
Oh jeez. Thanks for the heads up. That's it, if I'm going anywhere I'm taking the leap and self hosting email now too.
It definitely gives me a weird feeling to see them becoming bigger and more all-encompassing. And the way they bought SimpleLogin and did nothing with it but keep the dev too busy solving problems to implement any of the features that were planned up until that point didn't really give me a great impression of them as a business, either. I stopped using them a long time ago.
I do worry that that their service sprawl is going to detract from overall quality of said services. Email, Calendar, Drive, and VPN would have been a perfectly fine ecosystem. Now they're doing AI shit too, I guess?
The default in Proton's webmail is for their AI to be ON. "Writing assistant".
Well that's unfortunate.
Yes. You’re the crazy one.
Okeyday
Either provide a "Mail+Calendar ONLY" package for a discount or prepare to lose a customer.
...they already offer exactly that.
Please link? I don't see sh*t in my account to "downgrade" my package beyond what it currently is- "Mail plus", which has access to everything I listed, including Lumo AI slop.
Mail Plus, as the name suggests, is Mail+calendar.
My Mail plus has all of the pictured, with no "restricted, upgrade your plan" messages for any of them.
Did you actually check the feature list? The Mail Plus has very limited access for the other apps.
There's the free account, has mail and calendar, plus other stuff, but at least you aren't paying for it