Profile Pictures
Please make pfp's for us...
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George F Zerucha M.T.S commented
Agree with this. I usually have a packet with a small pic I send to clients. It is always much better if they can place a “face to the voice or email” per se. Thanks !
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DerekTDR commented
I know there are several requests for profile pictures. But I wanted to justify why they should be and the idea of how this feature can be implemented.
Justification: For many users, Proton Mail and other services (Drive, Calendar) are the main services they use on a daily basis. For many people, a profile picture is just something important, it can be a selfie, or it can be a company or individual logo. Proton provides the "Proton for Business" service, and as you know, businesses want their account to be as professional as possible. Users with their own domain in the email address probably want the same.
Idea for implementation: Adding a profile picture involves sending that picture somewhere to Proton's servers. So this forces Proton Team to have extra space on the server (one for profile pictures, the other for Proton Drive). I came up with 3 points that might be a good solution to implement this feature.
1. Setting each photo in 1:1 format, where the maximum size would be 256x256 or 128x128,
2. The ability to add a photo only in Mail Plus, Drive Plus or Proton Unlimited plans, it may also be only for Proton Unlimited, it's up to the Team's decision,
3. Adding a profile picture would take free space, adequate to the size of the profile picture file, from Proton Drive. This photo could appear in Proton Drive as a file, e.g. profile_pic.[format of uploaded file], or not appear in Proton Drive, but take up space from it (so Proton Team would not need additional space to store profile pictures). -
Joshua Tipton commented
There's a visual component to relations with customers and it's psychologically powerful. I agree that this is fairly important.
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Ramsey Rodriguez commented
I'm seriously trying to use Proton Mail for professional use, with content that needs security and encryption, but adding a Profile Picture is also needed to assure trust to many stakeholders. Without this makes, it a much more challenging proposition to upgrade to the fully paid version. Do you know if this coming anytime soon? Don't make it obligatory, but at least optional.
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No One commented
Profile pictures are common and should have been a feature choice, years ago.
There are many of us, who wish to add profile pictures. Please give us this option!
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No One commented
This is a must for business owners and their logos... if someone chooses not to use one, then don't... I signed up to use Proton for business and am sorely disappointed this wasn't an included feature.
Please add this, Protonmail!
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Veysel Karani commented
Finally add profile pictures since B2B on proton is worse due to that?
Like what am i paying for, people ask for this feature years and years already. If i don't see any changes i'm quitting Proton. Brand identity & a logo/face builds already trust with emails - especially in the B2B side.
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Veysel Karani commented
Are we getting it anytime?
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Robert H Stone commented
Protonmail started adding a picture to my outgoing mail. It seems to be what is called a profile picture. The picture they using is from my Zoom account.
How did they gain access to it?
How can I stop the addition of a picture or change picture, if I can't delete it?
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Luca commented
Some people think it's unnecessary and against privacy (just don't put your image, I guess?), some others like me use this service to run a company's communications, and think it makes a difference to recipients if your company's logo is clearly visible. Proton's mission is not to make a service only for those who think it's an unnecessary feature, but ideally to step into the game and offer a real alternative to large internet players, and that includes features that are not essential to private communication, but also to marketing and company identity.
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Bryan Kim commented
+1. Privacy and anonymity are two distinct concepts. Profile pictures may disturb anonymity, but do not compromise privacy. The ability to add profile pictures is critical for a modern email provider and does not go against Proton's mission.
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Malango Malango commented
Ok
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Ed Hartley commented
Please add this =)
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Dodik Ridwan commented
idk why my protonmail account automatically adds a profile photo. how to replace it?
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RT commented
Proton promises privacy. Pictures do not. I'll bet you have a Facebook account, too!
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Jaque commented
This is so unneaded.
The goal is to have secure and feature rich emailprovider.
this is just a gimic for kids.
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Eric Yang commented
Honestly a deal breaker to change to other platforms.. why isn't this available?
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StikJump commented
Yes please!! ProtonMail, please consider adding pfp's!
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Jon Snaw commented
Many influencers are using nude selfies as their profile picture. I think it gave them more followers by doing that. I often ask, why people enjoy sending nudes over mobile devices?
http://www.archway-to-monica.com/why-people-enjoy-sending-nudes-over-mobile-devices/ -
Blue commented
This would be cool, but my vote is for the engineering cycles to focus on feature parity and cohesion parity with Google Suite tools. I think a profile feature is inevitable, but maybe we should stay focused on making the tools usable for professionals first? For example, not a single person in my company of 1000's could use Proton Calendar for this single reason alone: