I'm getting Proton Unlimited at around 70$ per year because of my region. The cost is still significant but it feels worth it since a lot of their products seem perfectly suitable for me.
Mail - I use Proton Mail and am thinking of switching to it full time. The apps are better than Tutanota imo and since my government has started scanning emails of all citizens, I'd rather get an encrypted mailbox.
Simplelogin - Custom aliases for everything integrated with Proton Pass is super convenient. I can create aliases on the fly and this is included with the Unlimited plan.
Proton Pass - I have been using Bitwarden for years and I'm very happy with that. But with the new Private Equity CEO, I'm not confident about it's future. Proton Pass is also integrated with Simplelogin.
Drive - I want to switch from Google drive but this sucks afaik. I tried Photo backup and it just doesn't work. Proton Drive should only be used as an off-site backup for your NAS. I can't switch from Google Drive/Photos under my current budget. Ente is way superior but costs 4X the cost of Google due to their storage plan pricing.
Auth - I'll stick with Ente Auth for now. It works perfectly fine for me.
VPN - This is a nice add on. I personally don't use a VPN but I think I probably should.
Now coming to the downsides,
I know that Proton is dodgy but I don't think it's anywhere on the level of Google or Microslop.
There have been cases where Proton Unlimited Accounts were deleted by Proton without proper justification. I don't remember the context but it's a major drawback.
I shouldn't put all my eggs in one basket but basket is pretty close to what I want so Idk.
Please help me decide on what to do. Thanks.
It works, and where it doesn't, you can believe they are working on it. VPN gets you captcha'd a lot, sometimes you need to switch server because speed can fall down catastrophically. Mail and drive are OK if basic, we're waiting on a better integration where an attached doc can be opened and/or edited in drive directly. That would help them become a true ecosystem tremendously.
And of course we're still waiting for a Linux drive client, argh.
Pass doesn't always "notice" you are on a login page, too often you have to open the app manually and copy-n-paste like it was the year 1995. But Auth works in Pass, that's cool.
I just switched on photos backup to drive on my phone, and tho it's been only 48h, it looks like it works but you may have to open the app for the upload to happen.
Dunno what else to say. I'm not happy with everything, but it's definitely a less worse proposition than having your entire life, mails, pictures, scraped for planet-destroying AI.