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What are your alternatives to proton? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by wuphysics87@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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To replace everything. Mail, calendar, drive, vpn, password manager, documents etc. What are the pros and cons relative to proton? What are the mobile apps like? What assurances do you have they won't go full proton in the future? And other questions

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[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Regarding Password Managers, you can put a little extra effort into setup with KeePass + SyncThing to avoid using 3rd parties at all.

Highly recommend not relying on a cloud provider for this kind of thing. You're just asking for one of two things to happen:

Their servers get compromised
They decide to shut down

I know you can self-host with vaultwarden, but if you're not a self-hoster then it's a little bit simpler to setup SyncThing and use the kdbx format.

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Thats a good point, I might set that up myself!

At the moment I do a once-a-week encrypted export from BitWarden and Aegis (authenticator) and put those exports onto an encrypted USB pen drive to avoid the issues you mention but I think your way is probably better.

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago

You mentioned another excellent tool, Aegis!

I use it too, and I have it set to auto-export every time I add a new OTP provider to my SyncThing system. Since you can encrypt the exports, it fits nicely and have my OTPs available everywhere.