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
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I really hope Ladybird is able to eventually become a strong alternative browser engine to Chromium.
Got my tickets a few days ago, hoping for a win!
Just got one myself! 🤞
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.
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.
How is this patented? I had a professor show us how to do this in college.
The patented part is that you can have multiple email addresses for the same user, and a subset of them can provide challenge-response screening to filter automated messages. The patent is publicly available on the USPTO website.
I just signed up to the waiting list. So how long do you plan to operate? And how do I know you are not reading my emails? I used to live in Escondido lol.
Let’s say I had an established company …not X…let’s call it company “awesome”. So your plan seems interesting because I could route awesome.com to you and then you handle the labels. Is that the plan? That way I don’t have the send all my clients a new labeled email for every employee?
I don’t have any plans to cease operations, and I have enough capital to continue operation without profit for several years. Hopefully by then I’ll be profitable, though!
I don’t actively monitor any of my users emails. The only things that would justify reading any user’s email is if they are exhibiting suspicious activity or another user reports them. As far as whether you can know that, unfortunately there’s nothing I can do to assure you other than put it in my terms of service and privacy policy. Any email service that receives emails unencrypted from other senders technically has the ability to read your emails, even ones like ProtonMail that then encrypt the email for storage.
Yeah, basically the plan is to offer a full business email service. Each of your employees would have their own “bare” address, which could then be decorated with their own labels. So an employee named John Doe could have johndoe-somevendor@awesome.com for communicating with Some Vendor.
I’ll also have available the standard features like mailing lists (like sales@awesome.com), user management, security and data retention policies, etc.
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.
It’s a great idea for a way to encourage donations to these projects.
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.
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.
All the service! Who ever wins gets storage, key wallet, VPN and email. Thats pretty fucking good.
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’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
I got a lifetime 2600 subscription in 2009.
Every quarter they still send another issue.
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?)
I’m in for one ticket.
I wish these people would stop fucking spamming me about this. I fucking get it, stop emailing me about it
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
Pure bullshit And people loves to eat it
