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.

  • Shirasho
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    124 months ago

    One of these is linking/forwarding from a Gmail account. I have yet to figure out how to not have to do this.

    • @LWD@lemm.ee
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      124 months ago

      Didn’t even notice that one… I’m not sure if that’s a feature I want. I don’t want them knowing my Google identity, and I definitely don’t want Google knowing my Proton email identity either.

      • JelloBrains
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        44 months ago

        I have a junk gmail box that I use with no real info on it, I linked it then immediately unlinked it, and that seems to have worked. So I guess if you wanted to do this portion but not give them access you could make a Gmail you will never use just to link then unlink.

      • river
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        34 months ago

        Anyone have guesses to why they want this

      • @seang96@spgrn.com
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        14 months ago

        According to their docs, it links as an “app” so you give proton access to your Gmail. It doesn’t share your proton email with gmail and all Google would be tracking is proton requested to read emails as they come in.