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Hi all, interested in your thoughts here. Recently signed up for Proton Unlimited via Black Friday sale mainly for email/VPN/drive. For passwords I've been happy with Bitwarden and DDG for email forwarding (plus you get a duck.com address which is just fun).

If you were me would you move over to ProtonPass to streamline, or keep these things broken up? On one hand I don't want all my eggs in one basket, on the other hand I feel like it means I am trusting my info to one Swiss-based org vs Proton + DDG/Bitwarden which are US based. Plus if I am paying for a service I feel a little less like the product in the long term.

Feel pretty ok with both options as my main objective is de-Googling, but interested to hear what has worked well for others. Appreciate any input!

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[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 3 points 49 minutes ago

I was in your exact same boat a year ago, and decided to try both solutions. I ended going with the streamlined one. As you said, you are already paying for the service and Proton Pass is imo a pleasantly nice password manager to use. It is a lot easier to create and delete aliases there than through Bitwarden/DDG, at least that was my experience. Proton pass is now my most used day to day app list and I'm very happy with it.

While all eggs in one basket isn't great from a security stand point, I am pretty happy with this solution. I do however keep 2fa in separate app, Ente Auth.

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 46 minutes ago

A custom domain is $12/yr, and SimpleLogin lets you do automatic regex emails, so I can just make a quick website.spam@customdomain.com email for each website. Would recommend.

[–] radau@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 hours ago

Proton with a domain you control and use their Simplelogin which you can self host down the line should there be a rug-pull event. I think you need to manually export this so make it a habit as you add them!

You can put your eggs in one basket, just make sure you have a plan B if the basket catches on fire, using their domain in my eyes you're going down with the ship, if you control it you're just repointing records to a new host and getting simplelogin going.

This is part of the reason I like to keep ALL of my emails on disk still as well, if you can't decrypt your mailbox for some reason they're about as good as gone.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 hours ago

I'm a fan of separating services when possible.

And emails are a huge pain to change, so it might be worth considering an email service with your own domain name.

[–] DaseinPickle@leminal.space 1 points 4 hours ago

I think both solutions are probably reasonable secure. Personally I use the proton solution, because I like that my data is in Europe and I prefer to pay for services. I like the more transparent and honest business where I pay and get something in return.