For Proton Drive, you must perform the initial actions within 30 days of signing up for your free Proton account to receive your additional 3 GB of free storage.
Does this not apply to old (read: older than 30 days) accounts?
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For Proton Drive, you must perform the initial actions within 30 days of signing up for your free Proton account to receive your additional 3 GB of free storage.
Does this not apply to old (read: older than 30 days) accounts?
Update: I have two "old" Protonmail accounts I use on my phone, and both of them upgraded to 5GB of Drive storage.
I didn't have to complete any actions to get the storage. It just showed up. On one of the accounts, the app doesn't show the change on the main UI.
Same. I’ve had a free account for quite some time and now it shows 5gb of drive and 1gb of mail, with no tasks to complete.
One of these is linking/forwarding from a Gmail account. I have yet to figure out how to not have to do this.
Didn't even notice that one... I'm not sure if that's a feature I want. I don't want them knowing my Google identity, and I definitely don't want Google knowing my Proton ~~email~~ identity either.
I have a junk gmail box that I use with no real info on it, I linked it then immediately unlinked it, and that seems to have worked. So I guess if you wanted to do this portion but not give them access you could make a Gmail you will never use just to link then unlink.
Anyone have guesses to why they want this
To Google users more incentive to switch. Typical marketing/sales stuff
Not a guess, only a statement: Real fucking sketchy from a privacy point of view.
According to their docs, it links as an "app" so you give proton access to your Gmail. It doesn't share your proton email with gmail and all Google would be tracking is proton requested to read emails as they come in.
I didn't do anything and recieved 5GB
I reckon the extra steps are just for new accounts
possibly