There’s an incredible story behind it. But, the short form is that Proton Mail is more expensive because they’re not harvesting all your private information. In a few months the law will prevent them from doing for as long as the core fiscal law and Proton Mail exist (at least decades).
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KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 1 week agoI just signed up for that just to check it out and compare it, and it looks like upgrading the storage on it is more expensive than Google Drive.
justaderp@lemmy.world 1 week ago
buttfarts@lemy.lol 6 days ago
I happily pay for my email service from Proton to compensate for all the data mining they AREN’T doing to me
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
If price is main concern, you still have options, but you’ll need to be a lot more specific about what you need. For example:
- proprietary, hosted products like OneDrive, Amazon Drive, DropBox, and MEGA
- backups - NordLocker, Backblaze
- hosted and self-hosted cloud platforms - OwnCloud and NextCloud, use Backblaze B2 for storage
I’m doing the last one. I have NextCloud installed on my custom NAS (just openSUSE Leap with some drives) and am working on configuring B2 as a backup service.
Each of these are similar in price to Google Drive, but with a different feature set. Some are cheaper.
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Sorry for not being more specific about what I need, I will explain it here.
With Google Drive, it gets assigned to a drive letter on my computer which is H: here and I’m not sure if any other Drive alternatives do that or not.
Right now, I currently pay $3 USD a month for 300 GBs of Google Drive space and they appear to go up with 5TBs for $25 USD a month and $10TBs for $50 USD a month.
I’m not interested in One Drive as that is Microsoft’s Shit.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Here are options for to mount Backblaze B2 as a drive. It’s $6/TB/month, and I think they allow <1TB, so for 300GB you’d pay ~$2/month. So I think they’re pretty competitive, but I’m not familiar with Google Drive’s terms. They’re certainly in the same ballpark.
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Well, for one thing, I would want to find out if there is a way to mount a remote drive service to a drive letter on a Windows machine like Google Drive so that I can have it as a backup option that would keep my stuff privacy, and not scraped by some AI LLM.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah but that’s expected. It’s difficult to compete as a smaller company compared to what Google can offer.
It’s the price of privacy and to be outside of the google ecosystem.
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Apparently, doing a sync with it just on my documents and photos, it ended up filling up the Proton Drive and giving hundreds of errors on one of my Windows 10 computers.
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Were those errors that the drive was full?
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Some of those errors were about the drive being full.
Thetimefarm@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I recently started using Tresorit, E2E encrypted cloud storage, owned by the swiss post, only downside I can find is price. I haven’t used it long enough to really be able to recommend, but there aren’t a ton of options out there.