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by 0xEF 483 days ago
Perhaps it's just an aversion to having all your eggs in one basket. I am experiencing that with Proton, atm, after having spent a year De-Googling my life and moving my mail, drive, calendar and VPN to their drop-in replacement for the same Google products. Lo and behold, the CEO has to go and share views I not only disagree with but also find dangerously aligned with people that are very much enemies of privacy and protection of PII.

The problem with buying into one entity for a bunch of these services is they eventually find a way to sour their mission or worse, bend the knee to those that seek to exploit us, leaving you with the increasingly arduous task of migrating to another competitive service.

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Luckily with Proton, it is incredibly easy to export everything and delete everything, unlike Google which makes it extremely difficult to delete things (notwithstanding the 2FA screen you get when deleting data from each service, which leads to "too many logins, wait 5 minutes" even if you login with the correct password/TOTP every time). I recommend downloading a "google takeout" to confirm all your data is actually gone.
One of the nice things about bitwarden in particular is that they make it easy to self host (and there's vaultwarden which is even easier). There are tradeoffs, but lockin risk is minimal