My grievances with Proton
I give OP his due, that was a fairly well researched and defended statement.
Normally where I am from and the corners of the internet I have lurked. I see a lot of “grievances” that are usually people who don’t want to pay, but feel entitled to still have access. If this was posted bit earlier, I think most would have agreed with you off the bat.
Proton I feel has tried desperately to expand itself to take on Google, which I think is great to get people out of the Google Suite Ecosystem. But at the expense of a disjointed service and policies, that you could very much argue (and I agree) should be fairly uniform across the board. Not different.
Although I do sympathize a little more with OP. I feel the lesson to learn for anyone here, is that if you are a subscription user to any services. Do not expect ownership.
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