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[–] Geek_King@lemmy.world 117 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I recently switched my email from gmail to proton mail, because fuck google's.. well... everything. Glad to hear that Proton Mail keeps fighting for privacy!

[–] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I changed back when google got rid of the free "mail for your domain" and frankly its been a great thing for me. They keep announcing new things that replacing my existing apps.

They have a password manager now that I use. They are finally adding actual fuction to their online drive storage so I can sync files and backup photos.

Its been well worth the price for me. If only they had an office suite lol

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I really wish their password manager used a serif font, though. That's pretty unacceptable if you're generating secure passwords.

[–] randint@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Please don't use serif fonts for UI elements. Imagine the buttons on your file manager being Times New Roman. (eww.) I think what you're looking for is a monospaced font that's designed to distinguish O/0, I/1/l, etc.

Plug for one of my favorite fonts: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

[–] Sproux@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you explain why them not using a serif font is bad?

[–] porksoda@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Generally speaking, serif fonts make it easier to distinguish between visually similar characters like o, O, and 0 or 1, I, and l.

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah that’s true, but I can’t see why distinguishing is required of a human. I use my password manager to generate and input passwords for me. I don’t even know any of them.

[–] rolaulten@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not uncommon for the password manager to not be on the same system as where the password is being entered - hence a human needs to type. For example: consumer electronics with their own dinky little screens. Smart TVs/game systems and servers where remote access is not possible (or copy/paste does not work by design).

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah that makes perfect sense; I just hadn’t thought of it because those scenarios haven’t applied to me for a bit. One solution would be to generate readable passwords like discernible sentences. Longer in most cases so more entropy, and less chance to confuse characters.

Some password managers provide this as an option, though some authN systems require special characters because they think it improves security.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Or if you have to do business with a dinosaur company that won't let you paste in the PW field.

[–] Geek_King@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only thing I haven't found a good replacement for was how G Drive also handles Office style documents. I make use of that a lot, especially from my phone. But I agree, Proton Mail hasn't been painful one bit.

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Seriously? My workplace uses google drive, and many documents are made with word. ... A very common problem is that sometimes someone opens a word doc from the web interface of google drive - which automatically can conveniently opens it with google docs, which totally screws up the formatting and then autosaves it.

(I hate google, and I resent that even after I've removed all aspects of it from my home & personal usage, I still have to use it at work.)

[–] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I wish I could integrate it with like onlyoffice or something like that. Would be perfect.

For now I have to be happy with saving to my documents folder and knowing its backed up.

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude, that email alias feature is the best thing about their password app! I've started using it all the time for services, new and old. Will make it easy as hell to find those selling my info.

[–] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah the email alias rock. Especially when I was car shopping recently.

Want my email? Sure, here you go. SPAM? BEGONE, FOREVER BEGONE!

[–] lambchop@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To everyone saying they've changed to protonmail, check out https://simplelogin.io/ , owned by proton and free for all paying proton members. Unlimited email aliases so you can have a unique email per service. The apps also on fdroid.

[–] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why would I switch from Firefox relay that gives unlimited aliases at 1/4 of the price?

[–] clive@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You dont have to switch but if someone is paying for Proton than they can utilize it for no extra charge

[–] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ooh so if you are already a Proton Other Things subscriber you get the unlimited alias version for free? Because that's an excellent reason.

They should make that more clear in the pricing page.

Thanks!

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I wish they advertised that because it's an excellent deal. I don't know if the free Simplelogin Premium applies to all levels of subscription plans but Unlimited for sure has it. Been using it and it's amazing, it allows you to add PGP encryption through protonmail and simplelogin.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't try Proton's solution, but free Relay was blocked at some services I tried to use it. It was so weirdly specific since no one really knows about them, so I guess some web admins has enough time on their hands to create a whitelist of all mail services they support, and moz.com wasn't there.

[–] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I just had a company refuse to send to mozmail.com, thought they managed to charge the credit card just fine and the email address didn't throw an error on sign up. Figured it out on phone with support so they have a record of exactly why they lost that sale worth a few thousand dollars. I'd like to think they'll learn but more likely the only lesson learned was me re: shopping there.

[–] lambchop@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

There are github repositories where people curate a list of domains providing temporary emails or email aliases and admins can just point to the maintained list to block.

In the ~20 I've created so far I've had 2 services that wouldn't accept simple login. For those I've used proton mail's built in email alias service where you get 15 aliases with their proper domain.

[–] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just finishing up that transition myself and glad to hear I made a good choice!

[–] iamanoldguy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Same, using Proton mail and I am now blissfully Google free. Something else I found the holidays good for is finding out all the old accounts I have floating out there from sites that I interacted with over the years so I can cancel them or change the email if i decide to keep them. But, no more Google! Next on my list is Amazon.

[–] shadowSprite@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm in the (gradual) process of switching all my stuff from Gmail and Google to Proton mail. I really like the mail client and Proton Drive works better on my computers than Google Drive did, but Proton Drive doesn't back up my phone yet and I wish they had an office suite like Google does. I don't put anything important or private on Google docs, but it's useful to be able to access my textbook notes from any of my computers. I haven't used the password manager because I'm using Bitwarden, which I really like.

[–] Newby@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They just released photo backups on android

[–] shadowSprite@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I missed that update! This is great news!

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I want Proton Drive support on Linux.

It's currently completely useless to me, unfortunately.

[–] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] Newby@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Same and windows arm too

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

In the same boat. I currently just forward everything from gmail to ProtonMail and am gradually changing my contact email one at a time. It dawned on me that I receive mails from services I don't give a damn about, so maybe I should not change those.

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