No, Proton has confirmed that a deactivated email address is lost permanently. Can someone else claim my email address after it was deactivated? Just to be safe, you may want to set a reminder in your calendar to prevent the service from being renewed automatically. Choose the one that you find convenient, confirm the total amount that you need to pay, before proceeding to checkout. Proton AG supports three currencies: Euros €, US Dollars $, and Swiss Francs (CHF). The next menu allows you to pick the currency that you'd like to pay in. Click on the first menu to change the subscription from Annual to a month. Select the plan that you want, if you're only interested in a month's subscription of Premium Plus, click on it.Ī pop-up window will open, it has a couple of drop-down menus in the top right. If you decide to buy a subscription, login to your account and click the Upgrade button in the top right corner. I think that is better than not having a way to secure the account. That's a small price to pay to protect your data. That is intriguing, you could pay for a month's subscription of ProtonMail Plus, which currently costs $5 or 5€, to preserve the account forever. So, you don't need to have an active Premium subscription, you just need to have paid for a plan at least once. These can be crucial data that may not be recovered once the account is deactivated. Users may not remember it, but it is possible they may have some receipts, tax invoices, photos, or important documents stored in their email account. If a user hasn't accessed their account for over a year, isn't that an irrelevant account? Does it matter if it gets deleted? Yes, it does. Does it matter if a dormant account gets deleted? A three-month limit would have drawn a lot of complaints from users, I think they made the right call by sidestepping that land mine. Proton AG originally planned to deactivate accounts that were inactive for three months, but says it extended the grace period to 1 year, after listening to feedback from users. We mustn't forget Proton AG makes money from its premium services, so this move could theoretically be purely be executed from a business' perspective. I think it is also possible that more people could be signing up for using the free VPN service that the company provides. Maybe ProtonMail is picking up more free users than they expected, which in turn costs server storage. To users, it may seem like a pointless move.

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