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Empowering you to choose a better internet where privacy is the default. Protect yourself online with Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive. Proton Pass and SimpleLogin.

Proton Mail is the world's largest secure email provider. Swiss, end-to-end encrypted, private, and free.

Proton VPN is the world’s only open-source, publicly audited, unlimited and free VPN. Swiss-based, no-ads, and no-logs.

Proton Calendar is the world's first end-to-end encrypted calendar that allows you to keep your life private.

Proton Drive is a free end-to-end encrypted cloud storage that allows you to securely backup and share your files. It's open source, publicly audited, and Swiss-based.

Proton Pass Proton Pass is a free and open-source password manager which brings a higher level of security with rigorous end-to-end encryption of all data (including usernames, URLs, notes, and more) and email alias support.

SimpleLogin lets you send and receive emails anonymously via easily-generated unique email aliases.

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Introducing Proton Drive app for Mac OS (lemdro.id)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/protonprivacy

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[From proton subreddit]

Today, we’re launching the Proton Drive app for Mac OS as a privacy-first alternative to iCloud Drive. It’s a significant milestone for us because Proton Drive is now available for all major platforms, including iPhone, Android, Windows, and the web app. We’re here thanks to all of your feedback on the Mac OS beta over the past few months. Thank you.

You can download the app here : https://proton.me/drive/download

Features

👉 Sync files from your Mac to the cloud with automatic, end-to-end encryption

👉 On-demand sync to save on device storage space

👉 Access Proton Drive on all Apple devices

👉 Recover any file with version history

👉 Files that are downloaded are available offline with edits synced once you’re back online

Learn more about the Proton Drive app for Mac here: https://proton.me/blog/proton-drive-mac-app

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They have a business to run. How many of their customers run Linux vs Windows or MacOS?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They did a poll on Twitter. Aboit 40% users use Linux.

[–] Nelizea 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is exactly the point. The Linux userbase is generally more privacy oriented and thus available on Proton‘s channels, be that Twitter, Reddit or here.

However that doesn‘t mean that in the global numbers of >100m accounts there are that many Linux users. There it is indeed < 1%. Without offense, Linux users are a vocal part but in the big picture a minority.

That doesn‘t mean there won‘t be a Drive Linux client. It just means different priorities in releasing for in advantage for the bigger platforms first.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Citation needed

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Here it is!

32.6% use Linux, even more than MacOS! PS not sure why the "it is" appears twice in the above link...

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@hydration9806 @akilou this is a little biased though. It’s assuming most Proton users are on X. Is it though?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Then the question is, how many Linux users are off X. If they use proton I guess they care about privacy, which means they are more likely not to be on a capitalist social - more so one ran by Musk: the percentage of Linux users using proton products may be even higher.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@helenslunch @akilou sure… and we don’t have to be their customers. Free markets are awesome that way.

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

I don't disagree