cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12202255
Announcement from the Proton team on Reddit (Libreddit link):
Today, we’re increasing file storage limits on the free plan.
Instead of sharing 1 GB between files and email, you’ll now have:
5 GB for Proton Drive
1 GB for Proton Mail
Additional context: For Proton Drive, you now start with 2 GB and for Proton Mail, you start with 500 MB. After signing up for the Free plan, you can unlock the maximum storage allowance on each service thus:
You can boost your Proton Mail storage from 500 MB to 1 GB by completing four account setup actions.
You can boost your Proton Drive storage from the default 2 GB to 5 GB by completing three tasks.
It’s because they’re still in the early stage of enshittification, “first, they are good to their users.”
I hope my pessimistic ass is wrong; only time will tell. I just feel like some part of Proton’s marketing strategy doesn’t do it for me.