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Price change for Proton Pass Plus (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by Nelizea@lemmy.world to c/protonprivacy@lemmy.world
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From the Proton Team:

Hi everyone,

We're making a price adjustment for Proton Pass Plus.

At Proton, we rarely change prices. For example, Proton Mail Plus has had the same price for ten years despite having more features now.

As a community-funded organization, Proton is not primarily profit-driven, and our prices are only influenced by operating costs, not pressure from venture capital investors. As we raise prices when costs increase, we believe it's only fair to reduce prices when costs decrease.

Due to the rapid adoption of Proton's password manager, we've achieved economies of scale sooner than anticipated.

As a result, we're happy to announce that new and existing Proton Pass Plus plan subscribers can now enjoy a reduced monthly price of $1.99 (previously $3.99) on annual subscriptions.

You can find more details in our blog post here: https://proton.me/blog/proton-pass-price-change

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 68 points 10 months ago

Did not expect a change in that direction.

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 57 points 10 months ago

Had me at the beginning there…

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 43 points 10 months ago

…we've achieved economies of scale sooner than anticipated.

As a result…subscribers can now enjoy a reduced monthly price…

First time I’ve ever read such a thing. 👏

(And if the opposite is in fact true, well played anyway cuz ya got me 😉)

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's way more fare and square than using promotional codes and limited time offers like services usually do for marketing. It's very rare and cool.

[–] onion@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

limited time offers

Which Proton has done as well, and if I remember correctly with somewhat intransparent pricing

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

TIL. Still, that doesn't beat that one.

[–] sag@lemm.ee 19 points 10 months ago

Hold up.

[–] sayitghoul@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

If only they'd do this for email....

[–] verity_kindle@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the heads up, I'm finally going to fire this off. I've been procrastinating on this privacy stuff too long. Begone, thot Outlook!

[–] owen@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago

Yo this is crazy. I literally just signed up

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Is this a Swiss sorcery thing? Capitalism doesn't allow price reductions that easily...

[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago

Proton my beloved. lmao

[–] THEDAEMON@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

We really do appreciate you guys and thanks for your service in privacy and security areas .

[–] EmperorHenry@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago

make proton family a little cheaper, or give us more storage space for the same price.