Comment by kogasa240p
7 hours ago
>Proton
Using proton as well, but if you're stuck on the free tier you can't use any 3rd party email clients.
>YouTube
Using Google takeout for Youtube will give you a .csv of your subscriptions and playlists (just be sure to un-check getting a download of your videos). From there you can get the rss feeds and use RSSguard as a subscription viewer/media player, this site was a big help in figuring things out https://charlesthomas.dev/blog/converting-my-youtube-subscri....
(From that link, about adding new subscriptions)
>The only real trick is that most YouTube channels use a vanity URL and it’s more complicated to get the channel ID in those instances.
Go to the channel's videos page ( https://youtube.com/.../videos ) -> right-click -> View page source -> search for "rssUrl" . It'll look like https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC...
Bonus: Replace the "?channel_id=UC..." with "?playlist_id=UULF..." to get a feed without shorts and livestreams.
I love Proton but the idea of subscribing and committing to renew annually is a turn off. There's probably be a huge market behind the psychology of this.
They should offer a lifetime option for the core service and monetize the add-ons and new features.
That's exactly the reason why so many people prefer giving up their data, their privacy, their freedom.
Personally I'm happy to pay proton a few bucks a month to not have to give up those things.
I'm not criticizing those that do, just that given my financial situation the trade off is simply not worth it.
Hushmail was great for me, until I couldn't reclaim my inbox after the subscription expired (but there's no free option).
Other services deprecate or get weird. Hopefully Proton keeps going in the good direction.
Paying for a service that you use on an ongoing basis and that is very important (like email) is probably the best possible choice, since it aligns what you're paying for and what the company is working on. In the model you suggest the core service will atrophy slowly because the money is in the add-ons. This is why I'm happy to pay annually for my Fastmail account.