cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12202255
Announcement from the Proton team on Reddit (Libreddit link):
Today, we’re increasing file storage limits on the free plan.
Instead of sharing 1 GB between files and email, you’ll now have:
5 GB for Proton Drive
1 GB for Proton Mail
Additional context: For Proton Drive, you now start with 2 GB and for Proton Mail, you start with 500 MB. After signing up for the Free plan, you can unlock the maximum storage allowance on each service thus:
You can boost your Proton Mail storage from 500 MB to 1 GB by completing four account setup actions.
You can boost your Proton Drive storage from the default 2 GB to 5 GB by completing three tasks.
Good to see not everything is going through enshitification. Thanks Proton!
It’s because they’re still in the early stage of enshittification, “first, they are good to their users.”
I hope my pessimistic ass is wrong; only time will tell. I just feel like some part of Proton’s marketing strategy doesn’t do it for me.
They are ten years in at this point. I think they are doing it right.
Enshitifcation happens when users, advertisers, and investors are all competing for resources. With Proton, the users are the investors and there are no advertisers. Users are paying customers. It won’t get enshitified.
I am using their services for a couple years now, and their plan have increased, but not my bill. I still pay the same price as when I subscribed. That’s howt you keep customers. Also, they increase storage from time to time.
I think it’s because a lot of other companies did the same thing, Google Drive and Dropbox also had these ‘do tasks and get more space’ promos
My personal issue with the above is privacy issues (mainly dropbox with the automatic opt-in AI thing), so who knows. Maybe it’ll be ok
Proton drive is end to end encrypted so all your files are kept private
You’re right, they’re trying to get you into the service so when the price goes up there is inertia and friction to leave.
It’s great to see a service strategy that revolves around delivering value to your users, who then recommend it on your behalf, instead of revolving around delivering the least value while extracting the most revenue possible, so you can hand it to shareholders after executive compensation eats it up.
Way to go Proton! Easiest money I spend every year too.
My free Dropbox account has 23GB of storage. They did this kind of stuff when starting out.
My free Dropbox had 100gb for years, but then they decided that was too much and nerfed it to 10gb. At least I could still access my files.
I think I’ve seen this somewhere before. Hey it’s just like Google from years back. Oh and like OneDrive. Oh yea and YouTube before they started showing ads. It’s almost like a good business tactic to get people hooked on a service with free benefits early on only to raise the prices later and reap the rewards.
