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[–] BlameTheAntifa 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I didn’t realize that. What’re the best Proton alternatives?

[–] Cris_Color 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Personally I've been using Tutanota and bitwarden happily. I guess it kinda depends on what you're looking for alternatives to, I don't know if anyone else offers as comprehensive of a complete suite of stuff

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Convenience shouldn't be prioritized over distribution of services one uses. Single point of failure and all that jazz.

  • Tuta
  • KeePass XC
  • SyncThing
  • VeraCrypt
  • pCloud + Cryptomator
  • Mullvad VPN
  • Librewolf
  • IronFox
  • openSuse Tumbleweed
[–] Cris_Color 1 points 2 days ago

Those recommendations would probably be more useful to the person who was asking for recs, though it's worth pointing out your solutions to certain things aren't really 1 to 1 alternatives and may not be suitable for someone who's looking for services akin to proton

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I won't touch anything microsoft with a long pole, so no bitwarden

Just use KeePassXc/Dx as you were meant to

[–] Cris_Color 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Bitwarden is associated with Microsoft...?

Edit: I wasn't able to find anything suggesting they're connected, I'd love to know what you mean... I don't keep up with stuff super closely

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

At most I think it's hosted on azure. That's it.

[–] Cris_Color 1 points 1 day ago

Ah, gotcha. Yeah I can't say that really bothers me too much... 😅

I'm not sure there are really any big names in that space that don't suck anyway. Like the other two I'm familiar with are google and Amazon, and they're hardly saints.

A "roll your own" solution with keepass and something to sync might sidestep that problem but is hardly a drop in replacement that appeals to all the same users

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Locked with your master key so... no biggie? Or did i miss anything?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Not that I can see. I assume it's just an aversion to anything Microsoft profits off of?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Did you misread Bitlocker? Or was Bitwarden bought my Microsoft? If the latter, i can't find a source.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago