this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
132 points (95.2% liked)

Proton

7874 readers
16 users here now

Empowering you to choose a better internet where privacy is the default. Protect yourself online with Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive. Proton Pass and SimpleLogin.

Proton Mail is the world's largest secure email provider. Swiss, end-to-end encrypted, private, and free.

Proton VPN is the world’s only open-source, publicly audited, unlimited and free VPN. Swiss-based, no-ads, and no-logs.

Proton Calendar is the world's first end-to-end encrypted calendar that allows you to keep your life private.

Proton Drive is a free end-to-end encrypted cloud storage that allows you to securely backup and share your files. It's open source, publicly audited, and Swiss-based.

Proton Pass Proton Pass is a free and open-source password manager which brings a higher level of security with rigorous end-to-end encryption of all data (including usernames, URLs, notes, and more) and email alias support.

SimpleLogin lets you send and receive emails anonymously via easily-generated unique email aliases.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Many in the Proton community have been asking for an update on the Proton Drive SDK — especially developers eager to help build new clients or to integrate Drive into their apps. Linux users will be happy to hear that this SDK is a step toward offering a client, something we know is highly anticipated. Today, we’re sharing an early preview of our SDK work.

Important: This SDK is a work in progress. It’s not ready for production use or third-party apps yet. We’re sharing it to give you a look at what we’re building and to get insights on how you could use it — not for you to start building with it just yet.

top 14 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's good, I didn't see this update so thanks for posting.

[–] BingBong@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

Between this and the new email client things are starting to look promising for non-business customers. I just bought a filen subscription to cover my cloud backup needs but if drive comes through I'd like to get some of my photos extra covered from loss.

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Oh, no, what are people gonna complain about now?

Probably that they're adding too many features or something

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 days ago

😀 yeah, to me that is a waste of time.. But everyone wants a AI somewhere

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well, for one: no Rust SDK 😭 This is a half-joke. I'd make some apps for Proton, but I'm not touching JavaScript to do it.

Hopefully, they make more language bindings. I saw that C# was planned, so hopefully they keep the language bindings coming as they stabilize their SDK.

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

I have no idea what any of this means, but you don't need to explain it any further.

[–] MoreZombies@piefed.au -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wasn't there a whole thing where it turned out they were vibe-coding parts of their suite?

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, that's how it was spun by haters. What really happened was someone found a little helper file on their github which would only be there if they were using a specific code editor that has AI built in. That doesn't mean they were using AI to code, just that they could have been. Which is also true if they were using VS Code or any other code editor.

[–] MoreZombies@piefed.au 1 points 5 days ago

Thank you for clarifying. I am still looking at self-hosting eventually because that seems like it is the only way to be long-term resistant to corporate stuff, but it is good to know it is not all bad.

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Proton Drive on Linux and synology are the only things missing for me to switch

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Probably a fuse implementation makes sense. Then every tool out there can implement it easily without too much custom work.

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Hmmm. Requiring that the sdk needs to use libsecrets as well.

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago