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A couple of days ago ProtonMail totally changed their graphics, their logos and all their styles. Who follows us on Feddit or on Telegram had already been warned of this news, but others might ask: help, what happened to ProtonMail?!
ProtonMail, or rather, from today it would be better to just say Proton, has decided to completely change its look. But the changes are not just aesthetic, there is something deeper in what they have done and we wanted to tell it so as to help even those who were perhaps a little confused and didn't understand too much.
What happened to ProtonMail? What changes now?
First of all, as mentioned, all the graphics change. From logos to colors, there is now violet almost everywhere. But be careful because the change is not just purely aesthetic. They decided they no longer wanted to be identified as ProtonMail but created an entire ecosystem behind the brand Proton. The company will therefore be Proton and the various products will be ProtonMail, ProtonDrive, ProtonCalendar and ProtonVPN. Everything will be accessible from the brand new site proton.me.
•They then radically changed all the payment plans mainly eliminating the possibility of registering to use ProtonVPN only. It is a very important change because it also affects the prices and the various packages available. If before there were many small prices for every extra thing you wanted to have, especially regarding emails, now you only need to choose between three packages (plus two more for Business users).
Indeed, in reality the real choice is between two packages because the first is the free one, the only one that has not changed. In fact, in the free version you will continue to have up to 1GB of space for emails and a basic version of ProtonVPN, ProtonCalendar and 5GB of ProtonDrive.
The new packages created
So the interesting part comes with i new packages for a fee:
- Mail Plus, from €3.49 per month (if you choose the two-year commitment) which will allow you to use 10 emails, 1 customized domain, 15GB of space to share with ProtonDrive, ProtonCalendar and ProtonVPN in a limited version.
- Proton Unlimited, from €7.99 per month (with a two-year commitment) which will allow you to have everything that Proton offers: 500GB of space also valid for ProtonDrive, 15 email addresses, 3 personalized domains, ProtonCalendar and also ProtonVPN in the premium version with all the extra features activated (P2P, Streaming, 1700 servers to use, Secure Core servers (for greater privacy), Tor over VPN (to use Tor) e NetShield malware and ad-blocker (to block viruses and advertising).
The new ones business packages instead they are composed as follows:
- Mail Essentials, from €6.49 per month per user (with a two-year commitment), 3 personalized domains, 10 emails and 15GB of space per user. ProtonDrive, ProtonCalendar and ProtonVPN in limited versions.
- Business, from €9.99 per month per user (with a two-year commitment) which allows you to have 15 emails per user and up to 10 personalized domains. Furthermore, it is also possible to fully use all the other Proton products such as ProtonDrive, ProtonCalendar and ProtonVPN.
Previous plans
One of the most surprising moves is the fact that all the previous season ticket holders' plans were remodeled upwards. To explain better: those who subscribed to any Proton service did not lose anything and, in fact, were switched to a subsequent plan maintaining the cost previously agreed forever. A choice that is rarely seen: remodulations almost always have a negative impact on old subscribers in favor of new arrivals.
In this case, however, anyone who had a paid plan found themselves with something more at the same price as the previous one. Those who had subscribed to a ProtonVPN plan now find themselves with 500GB of ProtonDrive and also with emails that they can use, for example.
But it's not all rosy
As tradition dictates, these changes also bring with them a series of complaints, more or less justified. On the r/protonmail subreddit in fact, there are many people who complain about the new graphics: too tacky, too modern, too purple, etc. There are also those who miss the Mount Matterhorn 1, hallmark of ProtonMail until a few days ago.
Other criticisms instead, a little more practices, are about having put in too few plans or having totally forgotten about families and just created Business accounts and none Family Plan.
Still others complain that despite all these changes some things remain old: there is still no app for ProtonCalendar on iOS, it is still not possible to use ProtonMail on Android without Google services.
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