Post #4472547

2026-08-09 19:20 UTC

Damn, that’s fucked up. I think they do a good job overall but their entire fucking marketing team needs to be fired. Constant ads, and now this shit? I only use them because they combine a lot of different services under the same subscription but more and more that seems not worth it… I guess I should switch to Windscribe…

Replies (4)

@karashta@sopuli.xyz 2026-08-09 20:28

I left proton last year after realizing I was putting all my shit into one basket again

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@percent@infosec.pub 2026-08-10 02:04

I scored a lifetime Windscribe Pro plan for a really good price almost a decade ago, and never had any complaints about their service. It felt like a gamble at the time because I had never heard of them, but it has been great to watch them grow in such a positive direction like this over the years.

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@steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 2026-08-09 22:53

Proton is a non profit which is why I hope they change the hidden price change strategy. But then again Open AI was founded as a nonprofit which shows how much that label actually matters.

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@stopforgettingit@lemmy.world 2026-08-11 15:27

Yea, I got to agree, I am a paying Proton customer and I really like the product, I like the privacy first, all encryption, I like that they aren’t using ads to monetize and I don’t mind having a paid account if it supports them having free accounts. Honestly, there is a lot of good things they could be putting out there as great PR for Proton but between this and that French Youtuber this year, this marketing team is striking out left and right.

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