• Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    What part of Proton’s feature set is limited and compared to what other service? You can do a whole lot more with proton than with Gmail for example.

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      11 months ago

      Couldn’t forward emails until about a month ago.

      Their drive app backs up only the computer it’s on and other computers cant access that backup. It’s like a sectioned off part. Or I can upload files that any of my devices can access.

      Their calendar has some problems with compatibility of run into and it’s things that the person on either side can’t change. Not world ending but it’s really annoying.

      They literally just added the ability to automatically add holidays to the calendar. And of course I had set it up about a month prior so I manually entered everything.

      The proton drive app for your phone doesn’t automatically back up anything.

      I’m not shitting on proton because I’m an active proton unlimited subscriber and I use a bunch of their services, but I also recognize the flaws and how it’s not as seamless as Google yet, which I don’t expect it to be.

      I also wish they had some better Linux support in preaching to the choir with that.

      Love their vpn and the netshield features. Email works great and I love knowing I can read an email and automatically have trackers blocked. Aliases are great but I use their simple login site free with my proton subscription too. So my point is I like them lots, but it’s not a complete Google replacement yet.

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        11 months ago

        Oh ok I was just referring to the email part. You are right that their non-email offerings do leave a lot to be desired. I’ve found that downloading files from Proton Drive as small as 3GB is almost impossible, because their download rate is atrocious and on iOS if you don’t keep the screen active during the download it’ll just stop with no way to resume later.

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        11 months ago

        Couldn’t forward emails until about a month ago.

        wow, that in particular seems like a minimum viable product feature