Proton Drive might help me ditch Google, and it now has a Mac app

Swiss software developer Proton's first app was the end-to-end encrypted Proton Mail that launched in 2014. It's a great alternative to Gmail, though having a Google account has its perks; Gmail is just one of Google's many useful apps. The downside of using the free Google apps is that you pay for them with your data, which Google then monetizes with ads.

You can create a free Proton Mail account, and you won't have to pay for it with your privacy. Moreover, a Proton account gets you access to other apps the company has released since 2014. Best of all, they all offer the same end-to-end encryption as Mail.

I talked about Proton Pass more extensively recently, which I think is a good rival for 1Password and other password manager apps. But Proton Drive is the app that might make me finally switch over from Google. And Proton Drive just got a Mac app, which joins the Windows app released earlier this year.

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