What ads? Am paid user.
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I am too. Still get ads to upgrade to higher plans in the mail app.
Even paid users get them. Advertisements for their own products.
Can't say I've ever seen an ad. But I also use ublock so maybe that's why.
Yeah. I'm not sure if that's a free tier thing, or I'm just blockig ads so hard I never noticed...
I'm gonna be honest, as much as I hate ads, I give a free pass for someone advertising their own product that's relevant to the product of theirs I'm using. If I'm already using one of their products then it's not a farfetched conclusion that I'd like their other products.
A couple times a year when they run sales, you see no more than one popup per app. It's a fraction of what you see on any other ad driven service, and quite reasonable.
Yep, I'm already a paid plan and I keep getting ads to sign up. It actually makes me want to switch to tuta.
Yes, all the time. But then I realise they are making good products and trying to change the world and that isn't free.
Proton makes a freemium product, which means the paid users need to subsidise the free users. For every 10 (or however many) free users join, a paid user needs to join as well to keep making it work.
Proton has sales all the time. They are hoping that with all the shit in the news about Apple, Google, and Microslop, you will eventually pay Proton because you realise Proton isn't one of the bad guys.
If the ratio of free to paid users keeps going up, they have to do something and no one wants them to shut down. They also don't want to raise the prices for premium users. So what's left? Encourage the free users some more.
Even paying customers get pop up ads
Never have I ever seen an ad on any proton product.
Paying user.
I'm a paid customer, never seen an ad.
I'm a paid plan, ads all the time. It sucks.
I pay and have never seen an ad ever. Only the occasional promo email
I might have had one (1) popup on my vpn once IIRC. Paid subscription.
Make sure to sign into the account. I realized once one of the apps hadn't been signed into so it thought free tier
Agree
When i saw the first one I unchecked the setting and havent seen any since
Where’s the setting? I can’t find it anywhere
Yea, it’s a dark pattern with ads on by default and good luck finding the off button buried in their settings
I think I recall seeing an ad to let me know there was a 50% off sale, other than that I do not recall any ads.
It's indeed getting ridiculous. Every week now.
Nah ,prefer Posteo and Mullvad
I went premium some years ago and used to thing it was ridiculous for them to be showing banners and popup ads to paying customers.
They appear to have fixed that. Nonetheless, seems like something ublock could handle.