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this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2026
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Privacy
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The person here wasn't mad about Proton charging money. They were mad that when they signed up to the service and entrusted login information to Proton it was not a restricted feature, but now Proton has started to request money for it and they can't get access to it again.
Not to mention this person is already a paying customer, they just don't pay the 13 dollars Proton started requesting to store a couple bytes of data, or at the very least provide temporary access for backup.
The topic of this post is that a company is charging money for altering what was previously not a restricted feature. That violates the third rule in the sidebar.
I agree OP has a right to be upset, but this post has nothing to do with privacy.