Proton Mail: Difference between revisions
Created page with "Protonmail is a privacy focused email client based in Switzerland which has partnered with non Swiss content delivery networks like Radware. ProtonMail offers cloud email, calendar, VPN, and cloud storage services. Protonmail has a marketing focus on privacy over competitors like Google or Microsoft. Protonmail does currently have malicious user practices. For example when your subscription is up for renewal an invoice will be put on your account for the full renewal am..." |
Marked as potentially not relevant to the wiki. A subscription renewing based on the same terms as it was originally purchased does not constitute a substantial enough issue for the Wiki to cover (and such a practice should be in an incident page anyway). There would need to be some kind of aggrevating factor, or widespread coverage of the issue, for it to be noteable. |
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Protonmail is a privacy focused email client based in Switzerland which has partnered with non Swiss content delivery networks like Radware. ProtonMail offers cloud email, calendar, VPN, and cloud storage services. Protonmail has a marketing focus on privacy over competitors like Google or Microsoft. | Protonmail is a privacy focused email client based in Switzerland which has partnered with non Swiss content delivery networks like Radware. ProtonMail offers cloud email, calendar, VPN, and cloud storage services. Protonmail has a marketing focus on privacy over competitors like Google or Microsoft. | ||
Protonmail does currently have malicious user practices. For example when your subscription is up for renewal an invoice will be put on your account for the full renewal amount. If you picked a 12 month plan an invoice will automatically be placed for another 12 months. User support has told me there is no way to remove this invoice without paying, and my account will be disabled if not paid. Their conflict between their marketing of user rights vs predatory sales is very concerning. | Protonmail does currently have malicious user practices. For example when your subscription is up for renewal an invoice will be put on your account for the full renewal amount. If you picked a 12 month plan an invoice will automatically be placed for another 12 months. User support has told me there is no way to remove this invoice without paying, and my account will be disabled if not paid. Their conflict between their marketing of user rights vs predatory sales is very concerning. | ||
Revision as of 07:54, 15 January 2025
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Protonmail is a privacy focused email client based in Switzerland which has partnered with non Swiss content delivery networks like Radware. ProtonMail offers cloud email, calendar, VPN, and cloud storage services. Protonmail has a marketing focus on privacy over competitors like Google or Microsoft.
Protonmail does currently have malicious user practices. For example when your subscription is up for renewal an invoice will be put on your account for the full renewal amount. If you picked a 12 month plan an invoice will automatically be placed for another 12 months. User support has told me there is no way to remove this invoice without paying, and my account will be disabled if not paid. Their conflict between their marketing of user rights vs predatory sales is very concerning.