Proton has released their Black Friday deal for Proton Unlimited today, previously missing from the deals posted the other week.
Proton Unlimited - A$10.60 /month, Billed at A$127.14 for the first 12 months, then renews at A$195.48 every 12 months.
50% off Proton Unlimited 1-Year Plan A$127.14 @ Proton Mail
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Referee gets 30 days free ProtonMail Plus.
Referrer gets 1-3 months free ProtonMail Plus once referee buys their own ProtonMail Plus plan (<12 months subs = 1 month, 12+ months = 3 months).
This is part of Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals for 2025
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I don't know, but I sure hope there is.
I noticed the same upgrade-only discount options during their last sale, which is a change fron their previous process which allowed you to buy a discounted year on top (IIRC).
Can I subscribe on the same plan?
The promotions cannot be added to an ongoing subscription, and you cannot re-subscribe to the plan you are currently using, with the Black Friday deal.
Rip it seems like you will have to wait for it to expire to get the discount
Fortunately for resubscribers, these sign up bonuses are dodgy as hell. A 2 year subscription is normally "38% off" already so it's not much of a difference.
Yes, you downgrade first then "upgrade" to the discounted package.
Edit - you can downgrade even if you still have time left in your subscription. Whatever $ you have remaining is pro-rarted
By "downgrade" do you mean to edit the billing cycle to 1 month? I have Mail Plus due to bill me for 12 months ont he 27 November (I bought the Black Friday deal last year for a year of Mail Plus)/
Thanks for the clarification
Ah I'm on Unlimited so I think that's the difference!
I downgraded to Mail Plus then upgraded back to Unlimited.
Otherwise the only open for me is upgrade to Duo which I don't want
@Preet: Did you loose your existing email address and aliases etc when you stepped down to Mail Plus from Unlimited and then back again?
@Spizz: I was using 2x custom domains so yes 1 did drop off. However it was easy to add it again and set up the mailbox (it's just 1 catch all address)
I didn't edit any of my domain dns settings, all the Proton requirements were the same so it verified without any changes needed
Just had a look at this, only works if you can step down a paid level, if you are on Mail Plus you can only cancel your subscription, which leaves it running til the subscription ends.
Yeah bit annoying if already on Mail Plus :-(
Yeah the longer term you select the better the discount, as nubix mentioned, so it works out to be reasonable price if you select the 2yr option. So just set and forget it and it keeps renewing at that price every 2 yrs.
$260 full price a year, does anyone actually pay this? Can understand paying at 50% off.
The monthly prices are there just to make the packages look better, email is not a short term subscription.
Well it's worth paying for a propper VPN ($100 per year), and on top of that you get the equivalent of a $45 a year google One storage plan, a $60 passord manager and a private email service. At $260 it's about fair assuming you can't hoover deals seperately, but around blackfriday this is really good deal.
And it's unlikely your stuff is being monetised as AI training tools etc.
Only if you consider your information that valuable though….
Guess it’s what your requirements are, but you can usually get 100% cash back on VPNs, $2-$3 a month for email hosting, not sure on password managers as I would trust and various storage places for cheap.
As @Naigrabzo says though… depends on how much you value your privacy. 100% cashback VPNs are 100% monetising your browsing. If you're just after something to access geofenced data, avoid man in the middle attacks, or get around firewalls, or swerve your ISP they're fine though. There are other options youtube.
@McFly: If they're willing to pay cashback sites they are… It may be as simple as bumping up user numbers to meet specific goals periodically, but they certainly are not letting you use their product without some benefit to them. And being companies the benefit is almost certainly financial.
From what I have been reading, Mullvad and Proton aside, all major vpns are compromised on privacy these days due to legislation. I would get one of the aforementioned pair, set up my own, or go without unless my primary goal was circumvention of some sort of geolock on a service or product. I have been happy to go without as there's been very little I would even care to watch or play in the last several years.
@Alcaro: Even still apparently Proton has been told they will be soon required to provide all data from a soon to be Switzerland government ruling. They are transferring data centres soon.
@BatmanAU: Do you really believe that's the only online activity being monitored and of value, and that only one government's monitoring and logging it?
@ozilicious: As my comment says "Will be soon required".
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/ai-governance/proton-does-not-t…
I signed up for a Proton Mail 24 month plan last month and have now upgraded to this deal.
The amount I paid for proton mail was credited to my account (pro-rated), and I was able to get proton unlimited (12 months) for $127 at no extra cost.
sigh.
I made a proton mail because everyone recommended it over the usual gmail etc when asking for recommends the last few years.
and now they are shoving sub offer after sub offer at me every time I sign in.
Is there a way to renew existing subscription on discount?
Currently it only allows to upgrade to Duo or Family.
I barely remember how I did it last year, maybe I had to wait for my subscription to expire