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Empowering you to choose a better internet where privacy is the default. Protect yourself online with Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive. Proton Pass and SimpleLogin.

Proton Mail is the world's largest secure email provider. Swiss, end-to-end encrypted, private, and free.

Proton VPN is the world’s only open-source, publicly audited, unlimited and free VPN. Swiss-based, no-ads, and no-logs.

Proton Calendar is the world's first end-to-end encrypted calendar that allows you to keep your life private.

Proton Drive is a free end-to-end encrypted cloud storage that allows you to securely backup and share your files. It's open source, publicly audited, and Swiss-based.

Proton Pass Proton Pass is a free and open-source password manager which brings a higher level of security with rigorous end-to-end encryption of all data (including usernames, URLs, notes, and more) and email alias support.

SimpleLogin lets you send and receive emails anonymously via easily-generated unique email aliases.

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That the labels for the apps get truncated so you can only read "Proton" plus the first letter of the app. I'm only able to distinguish based on the icons which isn't great because Pass and Drive are similar colors, and Pass and VPN, and Drive and Calendar are similar shapes.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The icons can be hard to distinguish, on the fly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

What would you like to use today? The proton square? The proton rhombus? Or the proton triangle?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yet another reminder of why I love the Niagra launcher so much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

This app may share these data types with third parties

Location, App info and performance, and Device or other IDs

This app may collect these data types

App activity, App info and performance, and Device or other IDs

Why?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Im trying to figure out why the icons all need a white circle behind them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

All of my icons are circles. Are yours not?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I was just commenting about how it’s half-assed design to just slap an existing icon against a white background and call it a day. Compare to the lawnchair icon, locus, or even the Lyft icon in your screenshot. You find the names annoying, I find the design laziness annoying. Companies do it on iOS as well (including Apple).