Proton and Standard Notes are joining forces | Proton
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Proton and the end-to-end encrypted note-taking app Standard Notes are joining forces. We’ve long been admirers and are excited to welcome Mo and his team.
  • Matt@lemdro.idEnglish
    39·
    1 year ago

    This is disappointing as someone who does not want everything centralized under one company. I have tried to diversify the services I use, but this is the second one that Proton has acquired.

    SimpleLogin development has essentially been stalled since they were acquired by Proton as resources were used to develop Pass instead. I have a feeling that Standard Notes will be treated similarly.

    • Swarfega@lemm.ee
      English
      8·
      1 year ago

      I started using SimpleLogin just before the acquisition so wasn’t aware of how active development was prior to Proton. That said I don’t believe they have added anything new in that time (a year now)?

    • akilou@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      In the coming months, we hope to find ways to make Standard Notes more easily accessible to the Proton community. This way, in addition to protecting your email, calendar, files, passwords, and online activity, you can also protect your notes.

      This is all the info we get

    • Yprum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I’ve been slowly moving towards using proton, testing it with the free account and I’m on the verge of getting the subscription. The addition of the notes app would make it so much better, I’d pay it right away.

    • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      First, it was a little weird that the biggest draw of their premium subscription was not their cloud but extensions, which were mostly made by third parties and needed only a static site to host. But I could host my own extensions so this was no big deal.

      Yes.

      Then they made it harder to host and install your own extensions, making you have to select them one at a time instead of pointing to a single place.

      They really want you to pay for the product, ultimately they are a business. You self hosting without a subscription doesn’t help them.

      https://standardnotes.com/help/self-hosting/subscriptions https://standardnotes.com/help/48/can-i-use-extensions-with-a-self-hosted-server

      Then they started moving functionality like folders into extensions.

      As a long time user… I’m fairly confident that folders always were an extension? Of course folders used to be a layer upon tags and now they’re just kinda the same thing.

      … in any case it doesn’t really sound like you were ever a customer and I don’t think they’re going to miss you much. Maybe this is still good information for other folks that don’t want to pay them though.

      And I haven’t been particularly thrilled with the idea of putting all my privacy needs under a single banner either.

      I do share that concern. Proton is increasingly the “big privacy tech” company. That’s also not an inherently bad thing to have though as big companies do carry more weight in political discussions. They can help represent privacy in legislation (for better or worse companies are people for this purpose in the US).

      Email isn’t secure. You need to put a ton of trust in your VPN provider. I don’t think either of those services should be provided by the same company…

      Email can be (close to) secure with PGP, which Proton is just a fancy PGP client.

      The VPN was created because they needed a VPN they could trust for their email customers in sketchy areas.

      I think Proton grew out of necessity then because they realized both that they could and it’s useful for them to grow.

        • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I don’t entirely disagree… But, if they build the entire platform and you can just self host and use someone else’s editors inside their platform, they’re not making any money and the fact that they made their code open source and overly generous is ultimately probably a major factor in that.

          Ultimately you may be about to use someone else’s markdown editor, but they made that possible.

          As it stands they claim to give you a pretty steep discount if you use your own servers. I don’t know how steep of a discount it really is…

          But standard notes was never free as in beer, it was free as in speech… And AFAIK there’s nothing to stop you from learning to code, forking the app, removing the licensing mechanism, and making your own build.

  • PersonalDevKit@aussie.zone
    English
    9·
    1 year ago

    I feel like I am slowly moving all my data being with Google to Proton. Makes me a bit uncomfortable to be all under one umbrella again.

    At least so far it seems they are a decent company

    • Codilingus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      In the same boat, but what puts me at ease is the fact that when Proton Pass launched, they had way more people sign up, including paid plans, than they expected, so they lowered the price.

      • Enragedzeus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        When they lowered their price I signed up. Not because it was cheaper but because they didn’t seem like a money driven company. I understand you need to make money and pay people but these tech companies that make hand over fist billions and keep it annoy me.

    • inlandempire@jlai.luEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      The plan you mentioned is sadly no longer available

      Proton Visionary is a special plan for the strongest early supporters of our mission, and for this reason, we’re no longer offering it to new users. You can change your billing period any time (for example, change from monthly to annual or two-year billing), but please bear in mind that if you switch to another Proton plan, you won’t be able to switch back to Visionary.

      https://protonvpn.com/support/upgrading-to-new-protonvpn-plan/

  • ClearCutCoconut@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    This could potentially speed up the possibility of a Google Doc alternative in Proton Drive’s future too 👀 I see exciting possibilities here

      • akilou@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It looks like it won’t work unless I have premium. Markdown in particular is only on the premium version. Ah well. We’ll see if it gets included in Proton Unlimited. If so, I’ll switch but if not, Obsidian already syncs on my home server so it works great.