I’ve been using their Unlimited plan for over a year. ~$8 a month for half a TB of cloud storage, automatic photo backup on mobile, fantastic web email and mobile email client, and a great VPN that allows for port forwarding and P2P-optimized servers.

Totally worth it for me. Great feature set, especially on their email. Everything runs smoothly on my systems. I run Linux on everything and their web client has always been really clean and responsive. Their mobile client too. I use GrapheneOS and haven’t noticed any issues with their email or VPN app so far.

Made switching from Outlook & Gmail super easy. I don’t miss those trash services at all, especially not Outlook lol.

Weird, must be certain users then. I wonder if it’s a bug in their registration database.

I’ve been actively using the Proton VPN app both on my android phone and on multiple Linux distros for a year+ now and I haven’t ever gotten an ad in-app.

My android Proton VPN app I got from fdroid though, not from the Google Playstore, so maybe that makes a difference?

I’m liking it a lot, been using it for a few months.

Only use Monero and only a FOSS wallet like Monerujo.

Nope, I’m on unlimited and happily paying for it. I love Proton and the features it gives me. Way more value to me than trash like Netflix or Disney+

Yeah, Idk what you should do. There should be much cheaper ones available, but I don’t know where you live or what aftermarket devices are compatible with your ISP.

I bought a pretty nice Asus router new for like $120. Maybe you can find a used one on eBay?

Just make sure that the aftermarket device is supported by your ISP. You could also check online to see if your current Modem is able to have its firmware flashed to something like OpenWRT. But if you’re leasing the device, I wouldn’t do that unless you are sure you’re able to reflash the OG firmware back before returning it.

Last option is to turn off the Wireless completely and use the Modem as a simple Demarc point for your network, and then get an old computer, install PFsense on it and use that as your actual router for all the special network configurations/firewall functions, etc.

You can buy a cheap wireless access point and plug it into your PFsense box to get your wireless through there.

Unfortunately, all options are either going to be a lot of work, or expensive.

Best case would be if your ISP is compatible with a cheap aftermarket router/modem and you just swap it out.

Are you talking about your Modem/router that came from the company?

I love Proton Mail, been using it for over a year now and it’s been great. Phone app and web app work great, has all the features I need.

Their proton VPN has been really good too. A lot of people complain about it on Linux and Android, but I personally haven’t had any issues at all on either platform.