Swiss privacy-focused firm Proton has launched its end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) cloud storage service for Mac customers, 4 months after it landed on Home windows.
Based some 9 years in the past, Proton was initially centered on its flagship Gmail various referred to as Proton Mail, however the firm has expanded its horizons into VPNs, a password supervisor, calendar and, certainly, cloud storage.
Proton debuted Proton Drive on the internet final September, which was adopted by native cellular apps in December and Home windows in July — so at present’s information just about signifies that Proton Drive is now totally cross-platform, with customers capable of synchronize all the things throughout all gadgets they use.
Proton Drive constitutes a part of Proton’s grand plan to deliver safe, privacy-focused Google-alternative merchandise to market. Or, maybe extra precisely within the case of most Mac customers, a substitute for Apple’s iCloud.
Certainly, Proton Drive guarantees full encryption for recordsdata and folders by default — though Apple did not too long ago introduce end-to-end-encryption for some kinds of knowledge on iCloud, it must be manually activated by customers. Proton Drive, then again, says it makes use of full encryption throughout all knowledge, together with metadata and file-names, by default.
Proton Drive ships with 1GB of storage without cost, with extra paid plans out there beginning at $4/month for 200GB of storage plus extra options comparable to the power to routinely retailer earlier variations of a file for as much as 10 years.
For now, Proton Drive for Mac will solely sync recordsdata to the cloud which might be saved within the Proton Drive folder, however Proton says it’s working to allow synchronization for any native folder
Additionally, whereas Proton has open-sourced most of its apps by the years, permitting third-parties comparable to safety researchers to examine the underlying code, the Proton Drive Mac app isn’t but open supply — however the firm says this may occur in the end.
And for Linux customers, Proton has previously indicated that it will happen eventually, however it’s on its long-term roadmap.