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Alternatives for each of Proton's tools?
(jlai.lu)
Mostly out of curiosity, but also somewhat related to Proton's recent political involvement, I'm curious about alternatives to using their services, open to suggestions for:
- Proton Mail: anything that can support custom domain, email aliases, and email scheduling?
- Proton Drive: not the most important, but interested in privacy first, encrypted hosting services
- Proton Pass: anything I should take a look at besides Bitwarden and Keepass?
- Proton VPN: that one's the hardest, it was really good, I think Mullvlad is the one most often recommended?
- Proton Calendar: didn't really care about that one, but it was nice that it connected to Mail
My Unlimited plan renewed in December so I'll probably keep it for a year, it was nice having only one subsctiption to keep in mind, but I'm thinking of exploring other options
I just moved to Proton before this while debacle and it definitely put me properly back on edge about who to trust in tech!
I'll probably stick with their email and calendar for now. (Though I'm curious what hosted calendars might be out there I could use alternatives for arranging events with friends.)
I had started on Keepass before, briefly tried Proton Pass, and now have completed moving to Keepass. I keep my database in my syncthing folder and have it on all my devices. With browser plug-ins and the KeepassDX app on Android, the experience is basically identical, except entirely private and self-hosted. A win all around, I'm real happy with this.
For VPN I'm using surfshark right now and haven't had any real issues. Not sure what the prevailing sentiment about them is though. I do sometimes find their endpoints blocked by various sites (catbox.moe is oddly very picky about this).
For drive, I'll probably end up getting a seedbox and a lot more hardrives in the near future anyway, so that'll be a problem/solution for me then.
For password management I moved to bitwarden as proton pass was not there yet. I like bitwardens's zero knowledge emergency access. I can have emergency contacts access my account in the event I am no longer able to.
how does this work?
See documentation here: https://bitwarden.com/help/emergency-access/#:~:text=Emergency%20access%20uses%20public%20key,emergency%20contact%20(the%20grantee).