I would be interested in paying for $25 per YEAR (not month) for Unlimited domains & UNLIMITED addresses.
I would be interested in paying $25/YEAR for Unlimited domains and addresses.
I use catch-all and have probably 5 trillion trillion trillion possibilities and am not interested in paying MONEY to use an email ONCE.
I want to be able to RECEIVE AND SEND from ALL domains and all email aliases, unlimited possibilities for each domain, and I have a lot of domains.
PRESENTLY I GET ALL OF THIS 100% FOR FREE WITH GOOGLE APPS and I am unlimited grandfathered in forever. It allows 100 maximum SEND FROM emails, when I use them all I will just remove some I am not using to add more at any time. It allows 5 POP3 emails with 100 "send from" emails.
So I can receive to unlimited number of emails FREE FOREVER with my google apps account which is the #1 most functional email on the internet today.
My google apps account has 15GB of storage for free, but I never used this much. In fact over 10 years I only used 8GB. You should allow UNLIMITED everything except for storage. I can see having to pay more for high storage, but the rest is just SOFTWARE, there is zero expense to you so I should not have to pay for what costs you nothing.
Summary WHAT I HAVE NOW:
Google apps:
* Cost: FREE - grandfathered forever.
* UNLIMITED domains (INFINITE to receive mail to same inbox.)
* 100 "send mail as" accounts at one time (can delete and add whenever I want)
* 5 POP3 accounts (would like more, but at least this many)
* 15GB storage
REQUIRED FEATURES THAT IS HAS ALREADY IN MY FREE GOOGLE APPS ACCOUNT:
* dark theme
* delayed send feature (under "labs")
* every send mail as can have its own html-based signature
* robust filters
* best search filter
* best folders/archive capabilities
* canned responses
The only reason to leave gmail is because I want more privacy. But I do NOT want it for hundreds of dollars per year, it's just not worth it especially when I already have this for free. But I would pay TWENTY FIVE dollars per YEAR for the same or better benefits as google apps, just for the benefit of privacy.
I will never use Protonmail despite having a protonmail account from the very beginning, until I can use it as an affordable replacement to google apps. FOR YOUR CURRENT ABSURD MONTHLY RATE I COULD INVEST THAT INTO SOMETHING ELSE AND IT STILL ISN'T EVEN CLOSE TO UNLIMITED FOR MY USAGE EVEN THOUGH I HAVE VERY SMALL STORAGE USAGE, SO IT'S PRESENTLY A TOTAL WASTE AND USELESS.
You could probably have 1 million new users overnight if you offered a google apps replacement for $25 per year with the same features as I showed above.
I would have already paid for the last 2-3 years if you had this option.
I would never use it when i have to pay for individual addresses, especially since I already have it all for free in Google Apps.
Everyone is looking to leave google, and yours would be the best google replacement except for your PROHIBITIVE COST, AND PRICING STRUCTURE.ore restless and want to leave google. BUT NOT FOR HUNDREDS PER YEAR. $40 per YEAR would be the MAX per year for UNLIMITED everything, although even at $40 I would be reluctant to pay that and may still not sign up because of this high cost per year of $40. But for $25 per year I would jump immediately for this unlimited plan.
We will review our planes and try to make adjustments that will enable more users to afford ProtonMail.
However, this request is impossible to honour due to the way our business model is developed.
Contrary to Google, ProtonMail is not reading its users’ emails for advertising purposes, it does not serve ads, and it does not abuse personal data.
As a result, our only income to maintain and develop the service comes from our users, and not from the advertising market.
Google can offer all of this for free because you are not paying for the product with money, but with your privacy.
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Paul commented
I justified paying for ProtonMail when I considered how much time they save me in providing privacy and security, and compared it to the cost of other things: like domain registry, web hosting, etc.
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Anonymous commented
expensive is a term used for something you want, but don't want to pay for.
When things are free, you are usually the product. I don't think protonmail should spend time looking into absurd things like this. You have what you want for free with Google, if you want the same from some other company: pay for it. Don't force your ideas of "fair price". -
Christian commented
Comparing a company like Google that makes millions by collecting/sharing your data with ProtonMail? you crazy.
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Simon Mills commented
I believe that this user is requiring a "commercial operation" PLUS the benefits of PM privacy et al
However, they don't want to pay for it but are happy for themselves and possibly their clients to become part of the google product, which, in turn appears to appeal to them.
So, where is the compelling request of or need for PM to provide commercial havens for free?
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jim commented
A bit disappointing that we have a user that says "I want more privacy. But I do NOT want it for hundreds of dollars per year, it's just not worth it".
There's the answer, isn't it? It tells you what your privacy is worth to you.
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Web Dude commented
Have to say that multiple domain support at reasonable cost on top of existing bands would be something I would pay for. Maybe it should be considered at Visionary level, and would make that an option I would be happy to pay for. I don't 'expect it all for free' but have seen other services and few are good enough when it comes to domain support without a bottomless pit for a wallet.
I have dozens of domains myself, and hundreds are managed for clients so know that such options would definitely appeal. I can understand views of happy PM users telling this guy with GMail he is a sheep, but when there are so few services around that are truly affordable for users with lots of e-mail addresses then I can see why he'd propose a low fee (which is unreasonable) but at a higher cost, do see that it could be possible to offer support for more domains. Even in 1998 I had over 4000 mail addresses, but of course many of them have not been used regularly!
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B.D commented
If it's free, you're the product, you sheep.
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Ryan commented
Clearly someone who doesn't know what they are talking about! If you can't afford the product then move along!
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Anonymous commented
I totally agree with you. I have 30+ domains that I'm not all using. I probably use like 3-4 emails, but I need catchall on all domains just in case I receive a random important email from the registrar or something.
The thing is, it costs 2 EUR/month/domain with Protonmail. So thats 64 EUR with the Prof. plan. 579 EUR if billed anually. I don't mind paying extra, but if I don't need to send email and only need a catch all to receive a few emails a year, 60 EUR/month is prohibitive.In comparison, I'm also grandfathered into Google Apps. Which means that I have a few free accounts, and I can add unlimited domains as aliases for free.
Again, it has nothing to do with wanting something free, but thereis nothing for our use case: the one which a person holds a bunch of domains & doesn't actively use them, but wants to be able to place them into Protonmail.
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Andy commented
With you ranting on and on like that tells me that you a are person that expects everything free in life. You would be the absolute dredge and nightmare of a customer, I wouldn’t want your business at any cost.
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Anonymous commented
You realize the base price for G Suite is $5 a month right?
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Anonymous commented
Enjoy having google scan all those emails :)
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Don commented
You pay for what you get,you buy cheep you buy tenfold.as for privacy your not going to get that by using proton mail with that many E-mail recipients ,that don’t use proton mail. If you cannot paythe price asked then don’t ask for a cutdown service for and expect privacy into the bargain.
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Are Lomsdalen commented
I would gladly pay extra for new features.
I paid for a VPN service ($7/month), before you gave us ProtonVPN
Paying $30 per month, is ,in my opinion, a steal for all the services ProtonMail provide. -
MJ commented
No way. It seems like you are asking for them to subsidize spam!
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Ris commented
Please be nicer to Protonmail team; privacy comes at a cost, though. It is expensive to get servers from Swiss, to have LoA for their IP ranges to protect against DDoS using BGP anycasts while not compromising the privacy, etc. and remember that they are using a lot of money for crypto research. They don't sell your emails or processed data from your emails to make money.
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xeqtr commented
google, microsoft, yahoo off course can offer you cheaper pricing because they are already making millions from ads, but proton does not!
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HHH commented
Google makes that price profitable because they sell your data. You are the product. No one ever said privacy is cheap. If you want tons of email address check out blur