Proton's mission, funding sources, independence, and community are some of the reasons we're more resilient than other privacy-first companies.

Proton’s mission, funding sources, independence, and community are some of the reasons we’re more resilient than other privacy-first companies.

  • sheogorath@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    I did the switch. Even if there’s no PPP pricing for my region it’s quite alright. I’m planning to migrate my whole family to Proton in the near future. We already have our chats with Signal and one other last thing is for media backup. We’re still using a combination of Google Photos and OneDrive to save our photos. Are there any good privacy oriented data storage solutions? I’m also saving up money to spin up my own self-hosted solution.

    • zarenki@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      If you’re planning to subscribe to Proton Unlimited or Proton Family regardless, you might as well try Proton Drive. They try to be fairly privacy focused similar to Proton’s other products.

      Mega has a similar privacy-oriented design. Such that the server side shouldn’t have direct access to your unencrypted file data or its decryption keys.

      Still, any web-based service necessitates trusting the JavaScript you receive not to leak out your password or keys. Both Proton and Mega have a good track record so far in that regard, but the best practice for privacy with raw data storage is to encrypt your own data with local tools and treat any remote server as untrusted.

    • Lazhward@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Proton includes cloud storage and recently started supporting automatic backup of pictures on your phone.

    • juststoppingby@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Proton has their own cloud storage called Proton Drive. If you buy the top VPN tier I think it includes all of the premium Proton services, Drive included. I think it’s like 500 gigs for a single user account and 2 terabytes if you get the family account.

    • NarrativeBear@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Mega was my option for family photo storage. Mainly used for instant upload to a shared folder between all of us.

      As an added step, with some automations, my NAS server (TrueNAS) would sync my mega photo album to my local Nas storage. Files older than two years would be purged from mega and archives on my home NAS would stay intact.

      Since then though I swapped mega out with my own personal self hosted nextcloud instance.