Hi everyone, I have one question. If I have to choose between proton mail or proton VPN… Which one is more useful for privacy? I don’t do anything illegal, I am just concerned about my privacy. I also do not send much emails, however I received all my monthly bills and stuff like that by email.
Thank you!
Hi! We’ll leave it to our community to address your dilemma, however, we’d like to note that if you create a Proton Mail account, you automatically get the Proton VPN one too, and vice versa.
This applies to both Free accounts, and paid ones (click on “See all plan features” here to learn more: https://proton.me/mail/pricing ).
I think you’re asking whether you should get the Mail Plus or the VPN Plus plan, but feel free to tell me if I’m wrong
If 3 folders, 3 tags and 1GB of mail storage is enough for you (if you only receive automated emails with small attachments, this should be fine), then the free Proton Mail plan might be enough for you. In this case I would recommend buying the VPN Plus plan.
I love Proton Mail simply because a paid account gives you access to Simple login. I find so much comfort in not giving out my personal email address, especially with how often everybody requests it these days.
Proton Mail Plus gives you more security thanks to Simple Login.
VPN are not extrictly a necessity if you use HTTPS and don’t connect to untrusted WiFi spots, unless you care about your ISP registering your history.
Go for Mail, I am still using other vpn.
A VPN protects you regardless of the actions of others; mail privacy depends upon where you send mail to. If you have a bundle of friends who are all also on Proton then you are golden, and you get benefit from your emails sat on server where they wont be read. It is a hard choice. I would say I would be more affected by losing my VPN than my encrypted mail.
You get both for free, with some premium features limited. Now it all depends on which premium features are more critical for you. For example, do you want to manually choose the country of VPN server you’re on, or do you need more than one email address? etc, etc.