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  "path": "/t/suggestion-to-add-clearer-caveats-to-privacy-tool-recommendations/37591#post_1",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-03T11:20:19.000Z",
  "site": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net",
  "tags": [
    "downgrading your Proton subscription"
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  "textContent": "A few years ago, a recommendation I gave to someone new to privacy tools and paying for Email backfired. He switched from Tuta back to Outlook and probably will think twice about following my advice again.\n\nThe discussion this week on PG about losing your aliases when downgrading your Proton subscription has made me think we could put stronger caveats when we advise privacy tools.\n\nPG’s Email aliasing page does already have this:\n\n> In turn, however, you are placing trust in the aliasing service to continue functioning.\n\nbut doesn’t point out that if you can no longer afford to pay for the service, you’re in a serious bind with all your account logins, which you’ll probably have to reset one at a time.\n\nI feel the onus should first of all be on companies like Proton to be up front about not just the privacy benefits, but also some of the hurdles that might be ahead when adopting their privacy tools. For example, I had a fairly steep learning curve with Mullvad VPN, as I’d never used a privacy VPN before, and discovered I couldn’t print on my local network anymore without adjusting the settings, would have to switch it off for government sites and Reddit (?), etc.\n\nWhen we, privacy advocates, recommend tools, it might also be worth considering adding stronger caveats to our recommendations, so that they don’t end up backfiring, leading to users becoming wary of privacy tools as a whole (as my friend did).\n\nPerhaps there could be a ‘Caveats and warnings’ subheading with every PG tool recommendation.",
  "title": "Suggestion to add clearer caveats to privacy tool recommendations"
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