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from the team:

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Hi everyone,

We have a big month behind us, and in case you haven’t been on Reddit much this June, here are the highlights:

💜 To strengthen our commitment to you and our mission, Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure. Most companies are created to be sold, and they achieve that by placing profit above all other considerations. For most businesses providing “services” to the masses, the easiest way to profit has been to misuse user data and engage in surveillance capitalism to the detriment of society and democracy. At Proton, we have intentionally taken a different path to achieve a more difficult mission where people come before profits.

🔑 With the addition of macOS and Linux app, as well as the Safari browser extension, Proton Pass is now available across all major platforms.

☁️ We’ve added major new functionalities to ProtonDrive, most importantly the option to share files and folders directly with your recipients by entering their email and the long-awaited photo backup functionality on our iOS app.

Among online privacy news, you have been most interested in Google’s DMA compliance plan (spoiler: it’s a sham).

As usual, tips on what you need to pay attention to in order to protect your online privacy were some of the most widely read:

📶 what to do about WiFi pods that can represent a privacy risk

⌨️ how to prevent password spraying attacks

📑 a quick list of things you can do to protect your personal information online

We’ll keep rounding up top blog articles each month for you to make sure you’re all caught up on the latest news and tips. You can follow our blog here (we have an RSS feed, too), and we welcome all your suggestions about what we should write about next! Let us know in the comments.

from the team:

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Hi everyone,

We’re back with the most popular blogs from last month:

💜 We have joined forces with r/StandardNotes! In the coming months, we hope to find ways to make Standard Notes more easily accessible to the Proton community.

🎭 In case you missed it, Proton now alerts you if an online service you’re registered for with a Proton Mail address has had a data breach or has been hacked. In the meantime, in early May, we have also implemented a similar service for your Proton Pass aliases and passwords.

🔑 Speaking of passwords, passkeys have remained a big topic: we’ve discussed the Big Tech’s implementation of them, as well as whether they’ll completely replace passwords in the future.

As usual, you were interested in practical matters too, like: 📱 how to create an email account without the phone number verification, 💧 what to do if your data leaks, and 🧩 how to protect yourself from social engineering.

We’ve also analyzed several services’ privacy practices closely. You have been most interested in how Whatsapp treats your photos, and the security of Google Chrome’s password manager and iCloud Keychain.

We’ll keep rounding up top blog articles each month for you to make sure you’re all caught up on the latest news and tips. You can follow our blog here (we have an RSS feed, too), and we welcome all your suggestions about what we should write about next! Let us know in the comments below.

From the team:

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Hi, everyone,

We’ve had quite a few big updates during the month behind us - here they are in case you missed them:

🎭 Now you can create hide-my-email aliases directly in the Proton Mail web app (reddit link)

🖥️ The Proton Mail macOS & Windows apps have been released, with the Linux app becoming available in beta

🔑 r/ProtonPass now supports Passkeys on all platforms

In addition to announcements related to Proton’s services, you’ve found the following articles interesting, too:

🔐 What is a passkey? - This new way to secure your online accounts has been the talk of the town lately.

🗑️How to delete files from Google Drive - Our blog is known to be frequented by users in the process of de-Googling their lives and reducing their digital footprint.

👣 Speaking of the digital footprint, we’ve also published an article about this term, how you can avoid leaving traces, and even how you can make them beneficial.

🍏 Your iPhone is not as private as you might think - Apple’s marketing team has built a powerful association between the iPhone and privacy. But Apple’s lawyers are telling a different story.

We’ll keep rounding up top blog articles each month for you to make sure you’re all caught up on the latest news and tips. You can follow our blog here (we have an RSS feed, too), and we welcome all your suggestions about what we should write about next! Let us know in the comments below.

From the team:

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Hi, everyone!

We’ve got another exciting month behind us. We’ve already shared some of the most popular updates with you here on Reddit:

🍏The analysis of Apple’s approach to DMA compliance,

⏩ Our guide on how to migrate from soon-to-be-defunct Skiff Mail,

📣 Major r/ProtonPass announcements: the new Pass Business plans and the Windows app, and

🏰 What makes Proton more resilient than other providers in the online privacy space.

However, that’s not the entire story, and we’ve had a few others that have sparked a lot of interest:

⏩ Skiff alternatives \- Skiff didn’t only provide email but also a calendar, cloud storage, email aliases, and collaborative docs. This article contains some possible replacements.

🔑 How to export passwords from Google Chrome \- Unfortunately, the most commonly used password manager in the world is the one built into the Google Chrome browser. This article explains why this is not a good idea and what to do about it.

🌩️ Dropbox’s privacy practices \- We took a dive into the Dropbox privacy policy — it’s not good.

💲 What’s your data really worth? \- There’s a saying that data is the new oil because of how valuable it is to the digital economy. But what’s the value of your data, personally? Depending on where you live, information about you could be worth at least several hundred dollars a year to Facebook and Google alone.

We’ll keep rounding up top blog articles each month for you to make sure you’re all caught up on the latest news and tips. You can follow our blog here (we have an RSS feed, too), and we welcome all your suggestions about what we should write about next! Let us know in the comment below.

From the Team:

Hi, everyone!

As our yearly blog roundup promised, we're bringing you last month's top new blog articles. January turned out to be quite news-heavy, with posts analyzing the relationship between big tech and privacy concerns being the most prominent.

🥶 Outlook is now Microsoft's new data-collection service \- Microsoft informed its users that they share their data with 772 third parties.

💲 Big Tech has already made enough money in 2024 to pay all its 2023 fines \- Last year, Big Tech companies (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft) received about $3 billion in fines for breaking laws. We discuss whether these fines are big enough in the given context.

🧽 The worst privacy washing of 2023 and trends to expect in 2024 \- The false advertising Big Tech companies use to trick people into thinking their products are private is becoming the #1 threat to privacy.

Regarding the more practical articles we publish, most of you have been interested in how to set up a private email server, while the most popular piece of Proton-related news has been the price change of Proton Pass.

We'll keep rounding up top blog articles each month for you to make sure you're all caught up on the latest news and tips. You can follow our blog here (we have an RSS feed, too), and we welcome all your suggestions about what we should write about next! Let us know in the comment below.