Guys let's be real, running a service requires money (free plans also use servers resources) and as there are no ads it must come from the subscriptions...

Let's discuss about the idea of a bridge-only subscription, I wrote [a recap of the bridge proposals here](https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/935538-accounts-payments/suggestions/45970867-bridge-only-subscription-proposals-recap)

I'd prefer to pay for the bridge usage rather than seeing PM in economical troubles and having to switch to other email providers that do not offer anything in privacy terms...

I greatly agree. I find it quite unpractical to constantly have to open my browser and call up the web page. However, I also don't really want to upgrade simply for the Proton Bridge. Please make a desktop bridge or an app of some sort available to Free users!

I also support this idea; the only benefit disabling it provides is an incentive to upgrade.
I have no problem with low storage for the free account because running a server costs money, but I would love if Proton could put the user first instead of profit on this feature. Plus, there probably aren't *that* many people who upgrade just for IMAP/SMTP.

i cant log in or get app on pc

I would absolutely pay any price for the Bridge software! HOWEVER, I am BROKE and near eviction (thanks covid). I no longer have my own internet, so I am using public wifi and have to conserve battery on my phone and laptop. I cannot afford to pay even $1 per month to anyone but my landlord. Soon as I have a job again (health and economy willing) I will most likely immediately pay for 10 years of Visionary subscription! (When I work, I make low to mid 6 figures).

See my suggestion about implementing "sub keys" for additional devices and offering a detailed, advanced walkthrough for how to **Manually** setup the key pair and sigs on a desktop and how to manually decrypt/encrypt the mail stream. This would be a long walkthrough, but more people would end up wanting to pay after seeing the walkthrough. The only requirement for actual changes to the protonmail apps / server / website is to implement the "sub keys" feature, which is already available in open source tools such as Matrix and/or KeyBase.

Make the walkthrough an __**UNSUPPORTED**__ and "use at your own risk" only article. Many of us would follow it and figure it out with or without tech knowledge (I'm in tech).

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And, in reply to those who commented saying to just pay up: not an option for many, many people! help us build a new design for civilization that does not require any monetary system or currency and instead of commenting to complain about someone not able to pay, help create the future world similar to Star Trek! (or, insert your favorite sci fi future civilization)

The freemail is a privacy bargain
If you want more, it's gonna cost you

That's realitty

Ruge

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The Swiss think that their Swiss (very high) prices fits the rest of the world: everything is extremely expensive in Switzerland and ProtonMail Bridge makes no exception. Please, make this bridge free: it's ridiculous to pay such a huge amount of money each year! Just the Mafia or governments can afford to spend such a high amount of money.

At least make the bridge available for free users who actually need to have device notifications etc. I can't justify paying protomail for email service when you can't fully replace gmail. I might be willing to consider using the bridge instead of POP for Device notifications from things like my firewall, synology nas and I'm sure there are many others.

yep free

and more free

free1

the bridge should be FREE!

Please enable ProtonMail Bridge for free or for an one time payment.

I would like to add it to my OS Mail application. It would simplify my Email usage and overview on my accounts a lot.

I want to use Proton free version by adding a pop account to Thunderbird. I already do that with AOL/Verizon and Gmail.

This idea is great! 3 votes for this!

ProtonMail bridge should be available for free users. I don't think there's anything in IMAP/SMTP such that it should be priced upon. There are many, many free users, more than paid users in protonmail. So, the bridge should be available for free users. Anyways, people donate to ProtonMail. Isn't it enough? And also it should be made available for every OS (Windows, Mac and Linux). There are people who would like to use ProtonMail bridge in Parrot OS (or something similar like Kali Linux [for privacy]). But, it's not possible just because it's available only for paid users. Everybody can't afford a paid plan! If the ProtonMail team still wants the ProtonMail bridge to be available only for paid users, please explain me why.

I'd pay for proton mail if it were cheaper, like $24/year for the base paid account, but $48/year is a bit much for me as a working class person

Everybody give 3 votes to this idea!!!!