Family light plan with low capacity kids accounts
- To use their phones, kids have a gmail or apple email anyways.
- Kids are not actually using email in any relevant volume today. They only need it for a very few important things but these are privacy relevant. The included volumes in family are completely excessive for an average kid's use case.
- Proton Family is a big chunk of money for a typical family in absolute terms.
Suggesting a lighter family plan with 2 full accounts and 3-4 very light accounts (very limited storage, maybe not even allowing administration or settings etc - actual kids accounts) . At least until the kids are actually adults and need email much more. Proper VPN does not have to be included and drive can be excluded, teaser sized only or e.g. readonly on shared files. Pass and calendar should be included though - inter-family collaboration and calendar coordination!
If you want a big chunk of actual kids usage workload you need a popular messenger app. Sort of like when whatsapp was 1$ a year.
Nikolaus Kühn
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PS: Current Family is not a bad plan! E.g. needing a lot of VPN or for me (adult with income) giving my elderly parents secure accounts with much better protection from being scammed and bombarded with ads they cannot differentiate from actual content.
But not for a parent with 3 6-12 year olds that now need an address and a partner that is not willing to transition to a new address.
Being cheap and attractive to "families with actual kids" is also a really nice way to grow the future user base. There is a privacy concepts barrier obviously (kids privacy from parents) but there is also a legal aspect that until a certain age you can have them as users through the parent with parental controls or not at al (or, the parent knowing their passwords which is even worse than a parent having certain administrative control)