Love #Amethyst 1.0

About Proton:

It's not double standards—it's infrastructure reality.

Proton's free tier gets massively abused by scammers and spammers who create bulk accounts with stolen credit cards to send spam and phishing emails.

Free servers aren't as fast as Plus servers "simply because of how many people use them" - they're shared infrastructure with higher abuse ratios.

Their anti-abuse system "automatically identifies accounts that are abusive and disables them... as we need to block them quickly before spammers can use them to harass or scam others."

If you want to avoid such issues and support Proton in providing high-quality free services, they literally recommend "upgrading to a paid account."

It's not about banning you for being free—it's about algorithmic detection systems that have to be more aggressive on free infrastructure because that's where 99% of the abuse happens.