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As much as I like using Proton Mail and VPN, their current offerings have grown exponentially in size.
I would highly recommend anyone here to not put all their eggs in one basket. Proton can and has in the past disabled user accounts for no reason. This means that you will lose access to everything you use with them.
Only use Mail or VPN and use other services for other needs.
- Mail -> Tutanota
- Calendar -> Tutanota
- Drive -> Just make a NAS. I don't trust any provider with file storage.
- VPN -> Mullvad
- Pass -> Bitwarden or Keepass
- Wallet -> Don't buy crypto
- Docs -> ~~OpenOffice~~ LibreOffice
- Sheets -> ~~OpenOffice~~ LibreOffice
- Authenticator -> Aegis or Ente Auth
- Meet -> This is fine.
- AI -> Run something locally
Agreed, it's a good idea to use different service providers whenever possible. I've been using both Proton Mail and Tuta, and I really want to like Tuta, but it's a much worse experience for me compared to Proton. It's much slower, has no way to check an address as not spam, doesn't group similar emails together and just has a worse UI in general. I'll continue to use it of course, but I wish it was better.
For Drive, I don't really use it much, but if trust is an issue you can always use something like Cryptomator to encrypt the files before uploading. Also if you use a Drive service mainly for quickly sharing files with someone like I used to, an alternative is to use something like Sendworm, discovered this app a couple of weeks ago, it's pretty cool.