It says that “100% of the proceeds will be donated” and I recognize a few projects in their list that are worth supporting. While this still feels a bit like an ad, I thought it was newsworthy + something that the Fediverse would be supportive of?
Please share if you see any issues with this, and I can edit it into this post (or take down the post).
Full details on the link in the post, summary:
Join our charity fundraiser before it ends on January 5th
Since 2018, with support from the Proton community, we have financially supported non-profit organizations that share this vision, donating over $3 million to fuel a growing movement for a better internet. For this year’s fundraiser, we’re giving away 10 Proton Lifetime accounts, our most exclusive plan that gives you the most storage and all the features of all our current and future products, forever.
Starting today, you can enter the raffle to win a Lifetime plan. 100% of the proceeds will be donated, along with a $150,000 matching contribution from Proton. Raffle tickets are on sale from now until January 5 at 11:59 PM CET. We’ll announce the winners the following day.
Recipient details:
A portion of the funds will also go to a few organizations from past years, such as Tor, GrapheneOS, and others, as many nonprofits have seen drops in donations and are struggling to reach their budget goals.
this year’s recipients:
- Freedom House
- Free Software Foundation Europe
- Law for Change
- Ada Lovelace Institute
- Nothing2Hide
- Free Press Unlimited
- The Tech Oversight Project
- Open Data Institute
- OpenStreetMap
- Ladybird
Just a reminder for anyone concerned about potential FSF involvement that Free Software Foundation Europe has no ties to FSF or Stallman.
I’m out of the loop what is the issue with the non EU FSF and Stallman (I assume this is about Richard?)
Probably something about toenails
All the service! Who ever wins gets storage, key wallet, VPN and email. Thats pretty fucking good.
Pure bullshit And people loves to eat it
Care to elaborate?
As an owner of a competing email service, I’m primed to dislike Proton, but god damn, I just can’t. They’re an awesome company. I hope that in the coming capitalistic hellscape (wait, we’re already in a capitalistic hellscape), Proton is able to defeat the 70% market share behemoths of Gmail and Exchange.
I’m really glad to see they’re supporting Ladybird too. That’s such a cool project.
Which provider if you don’t mind sharing?
It’s https://port87.com/. I’m still working to make it ready for business use, but it’s ready to use as your personal email. It’s really good for keeping your email organized, which is something I’ve always struggled with personally.
It’s behind a waitlist right now, but I send out invites about once a week.
How is this patented? I had a professor show us how to do this in college.
Good job, I’m with tuta and am super hesitant to switch since ctempla dropping the ball 3 years ago else I’d ask for an invite. But honestly need more indie providers like tuta, ctempla and proton.
I completely understand. One thing I’m working on right now is custom domain support, so that you can either use
yourname-labelname@yourdomain.comor even justlabelname@yourdomain.com. That way if you ultimately decide to switch providers, you wouldn’t have to change all your email addresses. I’m hoping to have that available within the next few months.That’s pretty much how addy.io works, I think their technology is also open source? At least free for selfhosted use, I never looked into the license itself.
Just had a look at your service and it sounds quite compelling. I’m just wondering how the “not a bot” sender confirmation works - would they essentially get an autoreply where they have to solve a captcha, click on a specific link or whatnot?
I’m curios how that works with senders that aren’t individuals but e.g. services I’m signing up for.
I find it sus that they say 100% of the proceedings will be donated. I’m wondering if a fair part of this is an attempt to clear their image after they delivered environmental activists over to monarchical and corporate interests in the EU.
Hey look it’s the bandwagon that thinks privacy focused services are above the law and talk smack about those when they follow the law
I think you need to relax a little here. Proton is a literal privacy focused non profit that follows the laws of where they are based. You can’t get much better than that.
Even in an ideal post scarcity would a non profit privacy focused organization that follows the laws of where it’s based is pretty ideal.
They literally gave over user information. That is what literal means. What their marketing claims is not literal.
Are you referring to the case where what proton handed over was only identifiable information because the moron chose their appleID email as recovery email and law enforcement got their real identity from that and not actually from proton?
They were required by law to give out whatever I formation they had, which is barely anything. Proton (and other similar services) aren’t exempt from the law, despite what you may think.
Pretty sure they do this every year.
Expose activists?
Cool. I bailed on Proton for Tuta because the value wasn’t there for me.
I’ll be buying a ticket to support the various orgs, and I’d definitely use the lifetime sub if I somehow won. It’s cool of them to offer it.
I wish Tuta supported throwaway email addresses. If it did it would be nearly perfect.
I DIY it with my custom domain.
I need to figure out how to do that.
Tuta walks you through it, and I’m guessing Proton does as well. Basically:
- Buy domain
- Add to your email service (need a paid Proton or Tuta sub)
- Configure your DNS entries as per your email services instructions
- Create as many aliases as you want and have fun! I separate things into buckets, so shopping, games, etc, but feel free to go wild
You could also DIY the email service, but you’d have to look up the DNS settings to not get blacklisted by other email services. And even then, they could do an IP blacklist, so IMO it’s worth paying for a reputable service.
Cool, thanks for the guide.
I already have Tuta. I used to have Skiff and that allowed you to create unlimited aliases with their domain. Alas, it was never meant to last as they were always owned by venture capital.
How does your experience with Tuta compare to Proton? Was it a good move?
I think so. Initially it was pretty rough, but they’ve been actively improving things, so it’s better now. Once they finish implementing labels (soon?), I think it’ll have everything I need.
Some downsides:
- must use their client - not an issue for me, but could bother others; their app isn’t as nice as proton’s IMO
- no extra apps, just email and calendar
- no good way to export data - they’re improving this, but it’s still a pain
The reasons I switched are:
- cheaper family plan - I’m currently the only one on it, but I could add more accounts for €3/month
- 3 custom domains - I currently use two, one for family and friends, and the other for online spam; I could probably use aliases, but I want it to be easy to switch if Tuta does anything I don’t like; I’d have to get the top Proton tier for that
- I didn’t actually use the other services anyway - I tried the VPN, but I honestly prefer Mullvad anyway, and I don’t need VPN always right now
That said, Proton ultimate is a decent deal if you commit for 2 years. I just decided I’d give Tuta a shot and they’re pretty reasonable.
Thanks, bought a few too
I bought a ticket, thanks for the post. I don’t expect to win, but it’d be cool if I did and it’s a good excuse to send $10 to some cool projects
I really hope Ladybird is able to eventually become a strong alternative browser engine to Chromium.
only for it to be a safari wrapper on ios…
Hopefully not in the EU.
It’s a great idea for a way to encourage donations to these projects.
I’ve once bought lifetime service - couchsurfing. It didn’t stick foe less than 1 year. I have second life time account for 2600 magazine but still I’m skeptical to “life time” promotions
life time subscriptions always gets cripled as time goes by, to the point they become useless. Like forcing you to top up, or even worse to abandon and get a monthly plan for new features.
Plex lifetime has lasted me a long long time, maybe around 10-12 years, so even if it somehow stops now it’s more than made up for what I paid for it
I got a lifetime 2600 subscription in 2009.
Every quarter they still send another issue.
Thats okay. They aren’t selling life time though, but only raffle them away during promotions. So in this case they probably are sustainable, but the chance to get one is next to zero (unless you buy them off of someone else, as that is a thing proton supports).
I wish these people would stop fucking spamming me about this. I fucking get it, stop emailing me about it
Is this a bad time to mention the Proton 2024 Lifetime account fundraiser for online freedom ends on January 5th?
I didn’t mind Proton’s as much, but holiday season as a whole got annoying with all the emails. Mozilla in particular, I almost unsubscribed from their emails
I did, they really annoyed me this year. Mozilla that is. Proton never emailed me somehow, despite being a paying user for the VPN (which is alright, but not great).
Right now we need organisations fighting for software and media freedom more than ever. The unholy alliance of big corporations and far-right politics is just getting going, and if we don’t have alternatives to communications run by unethical corporations we’ll be driven into silence while they control all messaging. So this seems like a worthwhile donation.
Got my tickets a few days ago, hoping for a win!
Just got one myself! 🤞
Yeah I think it’s obvious they want some brand awareness out of this, but the projects they are funding, like ladybird, really are pretty great
And as a big proton user, I would love one of their lifetime accounts lol
