I am a current happy protonmail plus user. Having vpn service from another provider. Just thinking if I should consolidate vpn into proton and get the unlimited plan. Any thoughts?
It depends. If the features you get with that plan are features you like to make use of, then it is worth it. If you are uncertain if you will make use of those features but want to support Proton to be able to continue working on their service offerings, you might find it worth it.
For consumer VPN services, I would probably trust Proton most of all from the wild-west market of consumer VPN providers. Otherwise, I do recommend you to read about what a VPN provider really gives you; consumer VPNs is a hyped market segment with lots of false claims in what it can provide you. This one summaries lots of the issues with such services: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29
from my personal experience I’d say yes. I have had it for a couple of years now and I get all these services for free that I was never intended to get: Contacts, Calendar, drive, android TV app for VPN and now SimpleLogin…
But the way I see it, is that I want to pay to have better privacy and support companies that creates a future with such philosophy in mind. Services like protonmail getting bigger is good for the masses.
I am a current happy protonmail plus user.
Why don’t you stop there? Grass-is-greener syndrome? 
… Having vpn service from another provider. Just thinking if I should consolidate vpn into proton and get the unlimited plan. Any thoughts?
I use ProtonVPN and NordVPN almost daily, and occasionally I even crank up Tunnelbear just for fun. If there’s a significant advantage in performance or convenience between ProtonVPN and NordVPN, it’s not apparent to me. ProtonVPN doesn’t, like, make it any safer to read my Proton email or something like that. I also use NordPass as a password manager (and also 1Password and Bitwarden). Using NordVPN doesn’t enhance my use of the same company’s password manager.
Perhaps there’s a modest esthetic advantage. ProtonVPN “harmonizes” with ProtonMail slightly better than NordVPN does. Personally I think NordVPN is a bit more attractive.
But otherwise, in my opinion, no, your life wouldn’t in any way be “better” if you “consolidated” your software choices and became dependent entirely on a single company.
Is Proton Unlimited worth it?
Your subject line. Answer to the question “Is X worth it?” is always easier to answer than people think. Can you afford X? If no, stop worrying and move on to something else. Otherwise, do you NEED X? And do you WANT X? If you can afford it and you need it, it’s easy: get it. If you can afford it and you simply WANT (but don’t NEED) X, then if you’re like me and you enjoy agonizing about these things, keep on agonizing. If you’re like my more decisive friends, make a decision and move on to something else.
I’ve been a Proton Visionary account holder for many years. It’s absolutely NOT worth it to me personally. I didn’t NEED an account with all the benefits I have. But I chose that level because (a) I can afford it — that’s always the first and most important question — and (b) because years ago, when I first signed up with Proton, they were not nearly as well established as they are now and I really wanted to support their growth in my small way.
Final personal point. Me, I rather dislike having all my eggs in one basket. I use ProtonVPN because it comes with my account.
I just upgraded today, yes it is worth it. You can enjoy simplelogin for free as well.
I was measuring costs with all the services I already used (like Google Drive and Mullvad), and then calculated how expensive it would be to drop all those things and go for Proton Unlimited. It actually saved me an euro per month, so that’s why I went for it. But aside from that, I don’t regret it! It’s great!
Proton’s VPN works well, keep in mind however, some sites require a US based connection and if you are connected to a site sometimes it may throw up an error message because of that connection. But, ive found its maybe a handful of sites that do that (mostly cheaply made sites, porn, etc).
For me, it’s worth it. Because I really need the services that unlimited offers. If you don’t really require it, don’t create requirements.
Yes, ProtonVPN is solid. It has everything you would want from a VPN service: apps for easy setup, servers all over the world, fast…
I use ProtonVPN for trust reasons.
I recently watched a YouTube video about VPNs. It made me think about the my personal reasons to use a VPN. In my case is privacy.
I used the most popular VPN for a while to try it out, and I couldn’t feel comfortable not knowing where my data (logs and DNS leaks) were going.
Maybe ProtonVPN ends up not being that different, but at least I feel at ease and I trust Proton in general. They show their face and their foundation is privacy.
Hope it’s not too redundant and confusing. I trust proton a little more than any other VPN provider.
I had Plus which was totally worth it, included VPN and paid biannually for a great rate. But I did wish I had access to more P-2-P Swiss servers on the VPN. Then one day, Proton upgraded me for free to unlimited and voilà, my dreams came true! I love having so many choices and crazy fast downloads. Usually I just run a local VPN, but there are times I need that extra privacy. If you have all you need - plenty of email addresses, identities, storage space, etc., then Plus should serve you well.
Do you use proton vpn?
Contacts is debatable. Its useless for me with its isolation.
I need it to be fully integrated and sync to phone contacts to be able to fully ditch Outlook.
Not only is PM contacts in its own bubble if you do import your existing contacts it’s just a big mess of duplicates.
I gave up after 5 tries.
Comparing to anonyaddy, in what ways are simplelogin better?
Use your browser and logon to Protonvpn page and subscribe there.
Thanks. I will switch over when my current subscription ends
Consumer VPN providers, including Proton VPN, cannot give you more privacy. You just shift who can see your Internet traffic (which may be privacy sensitive) from your local Internet connection to the VPN service provider. The VPN provider can see everything you do online when you are connected to via their service.
For DNS, what may give you somewhat more privacy is to have your own hosted caching resolve DNS server in your local network and not use the DNS server provided by the ISP or VPN provider. This server will then contact directly to the domain owner’s DNS server to retrieve the requested information. When these servers starts to fully supporting DNS over TLS, the whole query will go fully encrypted.
For the mean time, to avoid the ISP to snoop up all DNS queries from your connection (as they can’t log queries on their DNS servers, since you have your own in this case), you can set up your own virtual machine running both a VPN server and a resolving DNS server. Then connect your devices with VPN to that VM and run all the traffic plus DNS through that connection. This will give you far more privacy than what any consumer VPN provider can offer. Especially if the VM is paid by using bitcoins or similar payment methods and signed up using a more anonymous e-mail address. This is more work, but won’t necessarily cost much more than a consumer VPN service. You can get affordable VMs from approx $5/month which is more than enough for running DNS + OpenVPN.
Seldom. I have my private VPN server which I use. That makes all my Internet traffic go via my home ISP when I’m travelling. I trust my ISP more.
If the VPN connection to my server is denied by the local ISP (typically on airports and hotels), then I would connect via Proton VPN to punch a whole so I could connect my private VPN through ProtonVPN.
Yeah… I agree, Contacts is not really there yet and not sure if will ever be… it can be used as a backup system but that’s it.
Since I primarily use Android devices and Thunderbird, the best alternative I could find was EteSync. That allows both calendar and contact sync between all devices as well as sharing with other users. Essentially the core functionality Proton Contacts and Calendar is lacking.