I read the sidebar and didn’t see anything about asking questions so apologies in advance if this post breaks a rule.
I’m in the U.S. and wanting to knowif Proton Family is a good choice for my use case.
Two decades ago I got tired of changing email addresses whenever my ISP changed so I registered my surname as a .net vanity domain and started running my own email server at home. When Google started offering Google for Organizations for free if you had less than 10 users I folded up my personal email server and shifted everything over. We use it for e-mail and basic family calendaring.
Last month when going through bills my wife and I were once again frustrated by coordination required to sign into various accounts. “Hey what’s the password for $CreditCard?” or “What’s the MFA you just got for $BankAccount?” or “What’s the password for Disney”?"
That got me started looking for a family password manager so we could easily share and keep this stuff up to date.
At the same time we realized that were paying for YouTube TV, YouTube Premium, two YouTube Music, and an Amazon Music subscription. Whoops.
Well, no problem. We’ll just “family share” the YTTV and YTP subscriptions so everyone has everything and we save some money.
Nope. G-Suite doesn’t allow family sharing. So we’re all going to have to create seperate @gmail.com addresses to make this work. Oh, and I’ll have to shift the YTTV subscription from my vanity domain to a regular @gmail as well. Which breaks the entire idea behind the vanity domain in the first place.
While I researching a Family Password Manager of course I found Proton Pass. While I was looking at the pricing for it I realized that they also have a “Family” setup for email which looks interesting.
So now I’m considering porting my vanity domain and all it’s email out of G-Suite and over to Proton Family. At nearly $300 a year it’s not exactly inexpensive, since I’d basically be paying it until I die, and it will be a fair bit of work to switch everything over so I don’t want to do it unless it’s going to work.
So would Proton Family be a good choice? Are there any significant technical challenges to migrating a custom domain and email out of G-Suite and into Proton?
Edit: This post was rambly and unclear. The TL;DR is that I’m increasingly annoyed with G-Suite and since I’m looking at Proton Pass anyway I’m wondering about Proton Suite (which includes Email, Calendar, and Pass).
Yeah I guess that was kind of rambly and unclear. In short I’m increasingly annoyed with G-Suite and since I’m looking at Proton Pass anyway I could buy Proton Family, which comes with Proton Pass, and do it all at once.
Proton Family is the suite, so you are using exactly what I’m asking about. 🙂
What don’t you like about it?
Not directly, the problem is with G-Suite but if I were to shift my email from G-Suite to Proton that problem would go away.
As noted above you can’t do “Family Group” with G-Suite but you can’t do a custom (vanity) domain without G-Suite! It’s a catch-22.
So yeah, the whole suite of products works pretty well. Don’t expect a similar level of functionality or speed as Google.
The biggest annoyance for me is that you can’t use an alias and a username. Not sure what kind of moron at Proton doesn’t realize that not every website uses your email as your username. But this doesn’t really matter because autofill is almost completely non-functional anyway. Maybe 5% of the time it works. so you end up having to go back and forth copying and pasting username/email/TOTP
It also forces my personal domain (which is <my name>.com) as the default domain, which I literally never want, so it’s an extra 3 clicks every time I want to create a new alias.
When you say “G Suite”, are you referring to a Google Workspace account?
Ouch.
Yes, not sure why I have G Suite stuck in my head.
This is certainly incorrect and I wouldn’t be too much worried about that. There has been huge improvements since the realease. If there are certain sites that aren’t working, they can be reported to the team and it will be fixed. Same as with other password managers.
I would not 100% take their word for the autofill part, it’s worked great for most sites that ive been on, the problematic ones being the ones that have separate pages for username/email and password. Some Android apps are also kind of clunky, but I don’t think this is Proton’s fault, since it also happened on Bitwarden, so I think it is the other app’s fault for not using the autofill APIs. Can’t say for iOS
Doesn’t matter whose fault it is. All that matters is that it doesn’t work.
YMMV
Ah I thought you meant the literal suite of Google products. Yeah, professional accounts for some reason don’t get access to free services like reminders 🤷 Google gonna Google.