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  • A la carte pricing has gone out the window in favor of bundles. This enables the same subsidization model of business used by Apple, Google, etc. Even when you pay, they display ads and reminders to get you to upgrade to higher tiers. Drive launched in beta only for paid users. Drive now encourages the use of their proprietary document format. They hand out storage bonuses for each year of membership. That’s not a sustainable long-term practice and purposefully creates stickiness. Generally speaking, they don’t have easy export tools, so they’re not very interoperable. Forwarding emails sent to @proton.me or @protonmail.com addresses to a new inbox is not possible unless you’re a paying customer, which makes switching more difficult.


  • bl4kerstoPrivacyProtonVPN or Mullvad? Why would you choose one over another?
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    2 months ago

    Moved from Proton to Mullvad to Windscribe

    Proton kept getting worse and is moving towards a walled garden.

    Mullvad seemed great on the private payment front. Their apps are pretty solid. The device limit was too low for me. For 6-10 devices the price doubles.

    Windscribe won me over with their build a plan option. Their apps aren’t the most visually appealing but get the job done.



  • Yes, but not in a way you might think.

    When it comes to the death penalty, I’ve always been on the “against” side of the fence. But for very heinous crimes, I believed I understood why families of victims would want to pursue that.

    On an online forum, I encountered such a family member. They shared the crime in great detail, and how they felt about the assailant. The way they discussed it was very ugly, selfish, and overly punitive. It was clear they no longer viewed the person as a human being. They weren’t able to process the trauma. This changed my belief that there are rational arguments for the death penalty from family members.