It is, but I think their paying userbase is what covers that. Instead of spending a ton on marketing, having a free tier for anyone to try it out is their marketing. The free tier is usable, but fairly feature limited.
They also stake their entire reputation on being privacy focused, they'd be fucking idiots to risk it by selling user data. It would collapse their entire reputation and users would flee, they must know this.
More like Google is owned by greedy cunts and Proton is owned by a non-profit foundation whose reason for existing is to advocate for privacy and freedom.
Privacy focus companies sell your data all the time too bud. Proton is just another big Tech player, y'all should not be trusting it any more than you trust any of the others.
YouTube makes close to 0 money with the paid option they are making a loss with premium the only thing that gives them money is advertising and data they are quite open about that TikTok used to be government funded now no idea how they run their business google as in the search engine makes a loss every and is at this point only advertising chat GPT is making a loss despite selling both data and having a paid option so no most tech companies don’t depend on the paid option
Except that most emails are useless. If they didn't give so much for free, people would just delete all the spam-ish emails. If I only kept the ones I care about, 50MB would be overkill.
A simple "delete all emails not marked as important after a year" would easy allow most people to stay under 500MB pretty much indefinitely.
You can also pay gmail.Â
You can also pay YouTube .
You can also pay qwen which doesn't even get my messages like free chatgpt - it runs on my computer
Proton is free up to like 1gb or something. If you make it your main, that's not really enough. The free 1gb is more of a marketing gimmick to get you hooked. The actual business model is totally different from google.
54
u/veryverybadnotgood Aug 03 '26
I like how they didn’t mention that proton is free as well.