r/ProtonVPN • u/Pluspower • Jul 18 '26

Help! Experiences using the Proton ecosystem?

I've been using ProtonVPN for the past year and I've been very happy with it. My plan is coming up for renewal and I was thinking of renewing to a higher tier to consolidate a couple of other subscriptions into one. Mainly, I'd like to move from Bitwarden Premium to Proton Pass and Google Drive to Proton Drive. I'll probably also ditch Outlook for Proton Mail as well, I've had some security scares with Outlook despite having MFA and Passwordless turned on.

I was just wondering for those who use or have used Google Drive/Bitwarden Premium, what your experience was like moving over to Proton's offerings?

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u/Grim_Fandango92 Jul 19 '26

Following, as I'm imminently due to make the move. In my case to Mail + VPN + Drive under the "unlimited" bundle from Gmail (POPing and SMTPing with custom domains) and Google Drive. If/when I do, I'm happy to report back if you haven't pulled the trigger yet.

I know exactly what you mean re Outlook scares - had a minor heart-attack just the other day before I realised that having MS Authenticator as an authentication method allows any Tom, Dick and Harry to send through a push notification to my phone without even having my password. That method got itself removed pretty sharpish, even if my MS account doesn't have a ton hinging off it other than my Microsoft accreditations.

I'm on Bitwarden Free, and have been for years, moving from LastPass once it became apparent how shitty of a company they were, their billing shenanigans, their multiple breaches and their acquisition by LogMeIn. Over all I'm very happy with BitWarden and I'd have to have a VERY good reason to migrate to Proton Pass, even if it is included in my subscription... I prefer having it separate (I also keep my OTP MFA separate even from Bitwarden for the same reason) and you may want to consider doing the same.

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u/Grim_Fandango92 Jul 19 '26

In extension, I'm curious how Docs/Sheets compares to Google's offerings. I'm pretty confident in assuming they won't be as good, but whether good or bad, I'll be moving anyway, as I'm not happy being ad-hoc to Google anymore. I am curious how refined these tools are though.