Thank you for taking the time to understand what I’m saying. That’s all I wanted. It’s frustrating to keep being directed to change email preferences when that had nothing to do with my comments. I appreciate your time.

At the time I received the popup, I refreshed the page, and it was gone. I’m not sure if clicking outside the popup would have worked. If there’s no x to close, then that’s what’s called a “dark pattern.”

Here is the popup: https://i.ibb.co/7yqc8d1/proton-Copy.png

This isn’t the place to discuss my issue or share my ticket number. I don’t link my Proton account with my Lemmy account. I heard back from customer support, and I replied to the email with all details on February 2. I haven’t heard back. The email I received ignored my issue and instead told me how to unsubscribe from emails.

I got it from the official F-Droid link

I have, unfortunately. The web site gives me obtrusive indismissable popups sometimes (in Firefox with uBO), and I’ve seen promotions within the Proton VPN app itself, which is something other Unlimited subscribers have experienced as well, though not all of us, for some confusing reason.

I made a post about it not long ago.

Are you using the paid version? OP’s thinking about paying, but if Discord works on the free Netherlands server, perhaps one of us should let them know.

Fwiw I’m always using Proton VPN (paid version) on my phone (Android) and frequently on desktop as well (both Windows and Linux).

I use Discord on all these platforms, and I’ve never had trouble using it while connected to a server via Proton.

There was no x on the popup. There was no way to exit other than to agree to use Proton Pass. I told you this.

Thanks for responding! It does make me wonder why I and others did. It was presumably the same version of the app. I was using the official app from F-Droid.

Do you live in the EU, out of curiosity? A lot of Unlimited users have said they saw the promotion, not just me, and so I’m curious why not everyone did. It was very noticeable to me since I open the app frequently

You know how that goes

I’m using the F-Droid version too. However, the popup appeared on their web site using Firefox with uBlock Origin.

I guess I’m alright with using Mega. I’d prefer open source of course, but I mostly just don’t want to use something from Google, Apple, or Microsoft.

Oh so for example, I could say: “I tried this, but it didn’t work.”

Thanks, I appreciate this very much! I’ll try to stick to your advice

I feel seen! It’s weird that some people don’t seem to have gotten the ads. Maybe it was just people in certain countries? (I’m in the US)

I’ve already been using Bitwarden, and I love it so much. I honestly pay for it just to support it.

The main things are the VPN itself and Drive for cloud storage. I too have thought about IVPN or Mullvad, but neither seem quite as good as Proton. Mozilla also has a VPN service, but I never see it mentioned.

And I’m way too non-techy to think of self hosting or anything like that.

Bookmarking this. I wish I could learn. Maybe I can take it slow and learn one piece at a time. The main reason I used a VPN was after I was IP banned on reddit. I decided I don’t really need sites seeing my real IP address, and I’ve never been comfortable being served data that are curated for my location. I like that with a VPN I can at least see which sites are up to this fuckery.

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I searched and found this: https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/17sh434/how_do_i_stop_the_ads/

I didn’t see anything else about it, and as you can see there is no useful information or discussion in that thread. The rest of the threads mentioning the Black Friday deal all seem populated by totally-not-bots who are thrilled to see the deal.

I’m so glad I left that site.

Doesn’t setting up your own VPS take some level of technical skill? I have virtually no expertise in stuff like that, and even reading about it goes way above my head.