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๐Ÿ“ Latest from @jonah on the blog: Proton Wallet Review

"Proton, the Swiss creators of privacy-focused products like Proton Mail and ProtonVPN, recently released the latest product in their ever-growing lineup: Proton Wallet..."

Continue reading: privacyguides.org/articles/202

8 September at 16:45 | Open on mastodon.neat.computer
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tizmic

@privacyguides @jonah I share most of the scepticism and must say I don't expect much additional value by Proton Wallet.

As described, it is useful for existing Bitcoins, so me tinkering with getting a cold wallet for purchasing at @njalla may now find instead a place on Proton Wallet.

Besides that, I agree Proton Wallet might become extremely useful for temporary credit cards and as Google Pay alternative; though I cannot evaluate the barrier for entry in that matter. :BlobhajBlanketBlue:

8 September at 17:00 | Open on mastodon.social
Kแ‘แ‘Œแ‘แ•ฎ

@privacyguides @jonah I donโ€™t understand why Proton keeps releasing *new* things, while their existing products still have many issues.
For example, Iโ€™ve been using Proton Mail for years, the app on iOS is just terrible. Itโ€™s buggy and lacks basic features all other e-mail apps have.
You canโ€™t even zoom text properly, or set a notification for specific users / threads, etc. etc. etc.
Hoping the quality will improve, iโ€™d love to come back when that happens.

8 September at 17:44 | Open on mastodon.social
Jonah Aragon

@Kdude @privacyguides I agree their existing apps could use work, but to be fair to Proton, you often can't improve a product faster by just throwing more developers at it.

If Proton Wallet's launch took devs away from Mail/Drive/etc. that would be one thing, but I choose to believe that Proton Wallet's devs are an entirely new team, and the teams working on the other projects aren't impacted by new launches and are still chipping away at their own product improvements.

Guess it's hard to say for sure though.

@Kdude @privacyguides I agree their existing apps could use work, but to be fair to Proton, you often can't improve a product faster by just throwing more developers at it.

If Proton Wallet's launch took devs away from Mail/Drive/etc. that would be one thing, but I choose to believe that Proton Wallet's devs are an entirely new team, and the teams working on the other projects aren't impacted by new launches and are still chipping away at their own product improvements.

8 September at 17:48 | Open on mastodon.neat.computer
Artemis ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธโ˜ฎ๏ธ

@privacyguides @jonah I do agree with your sentiments and was stunned when they announced this out of the blue. But again, I kinda felt similarly about Proton Pass when they launched it and wondered why they bothered when we had Bitwarden. Proton Pass offered nothing substantial over the competition, but it eventually grew to become a very solid password manager. So Iโ€™m currently on the โ€œwait and seeโ€ bench.

8 September at 19:16 | Open on mas.to
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