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Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor (proton.me)

submitted 4 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

A lot of people confuse open source with community driven/governed.
If things go awry, you'll be locked-in, married to Proton.

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[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

They're just too expensive. Like, sure, it costs money to run, but 3.49€/month (the discounted 24 month rate) for the mail only plan, 15 GB storage. (41.88€, $45.17 USD, $67.28 AUD per year)

That's really expensive if you just want mail.

The other stuff, is also really expensive. To the point that makes you think, "there is no way google is making THIS much to make up the difference in advertising to me for a comparable plan".

[–] menemen@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you just need an email account I'd suggest to have a look at posteo.de. I am with them for many years now. Price is good and terms also.

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[–] macgyver@federation.red 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You get mailserver capabilities with that tier as well though. You shouldn't be using the plus plan unless you need the email storage or host custom domains and don't want to deal with the admin.

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[–] bquintb@midwest.social 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Awesome...I can move my budget over to my proton.me account now.

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I don't think there's a spreadsheet app yet. Hopefully soon

[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are they trying to become Google alternative?

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[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Great, hopefully it is as useful. Surveys and such are a must for any migration.

[–] Bali@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. I will try to find out if it's 1:1 in handling .docx like OnlyOffice which i hope it is. It sucks that OnlyOffice won't run natively on Wayland.

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It is fork of onlyoffice, https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2023/07/self-hosted-onlyoffice-docspace

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[–] spiderman@ani.social 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

It's all good but I wish they increase the storage for free tier a bit more

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