The way everyone gets so up-in-arms about the political views of a person three levels detached from the company is insane.
"Oh no, an individual with different views than me offhandedly mentioned Proton, the horror! I can't possibly differentiate between the views of a company and a separate individual!
Let's go grandstand about canceling our service and discouraging others from signing up because a random person thinks differently than me, and talked about the company."
It also can purely be choosing to not support an organization that doesn’t align with your world view. The money in our pockets is the power to change things.
Dark patterns? AI doesn't care about dark patterns. It will instantly navigate around them.
10% annual price increases for absolutely no reason? No problem! Just build a replacement. 98% of SaaS applications out there no longer have a moat. My friend just contracted out a CRM replacement for Salesforce for a small company for $65k. He built it in a few days for a few hundred dollars. Obviously it's much less feature rich, but this company never used 99% of the features in Salesforce anyway. If anything, a light weight and bespoke CRM was what they always needed and wanted anyway. SaaS just wasn't viable for bespoke.
Ads killing the experience? AI will hunt down every explicit and hidden ad and eradicate it. The entire ad model is about to die.
I also use it with my own domain registered outside Zoho, so Zoho cannot actually lock me out of my email ever, only the data they host, though this is true for external domains in Google Workspace also.
A cheap 2.5Gb how from racknerd, $20-22/year, + domain.
It's been as smooth sailing as any other email provider.
Very satisfied.
Try it
I use the Maildir format so each message is its own file making it atomic.
It's your sign to move on, there are hundreds of other cloud providers who will actually provide meaningful human support because they need your business unlike Google.
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I’m now in the process of switching to Fastmail. Google doesn’t give a shit about anything besides for their golden goose, I would encourage everyone to move away from their services before they just screw you with no warning or recourse just because they can.