Proton (https://proton.me), the Swiss company best known for secure email, has quietly added another useful service to its growing ecosystem: Proton Meet (https://proton.me/meet).

Like the rest of Proton’s products, it’s focused on privacy rather than surveillance. Meetings are encrypted, your data is not sold, and Proton says it is not used to train AI systems — can you say the same thing about similar free services?

The free tier is actually useful! Proton Meet’s free lets you host meetings up to an hour long with as many as 50 participants. Zoom limits free hosts to 40 minutes.

Yes, Proton launched another app. But the significant thing is that the company keeps expanding into a more complete privacy-first productivity stack which includes mail, calendar, docs, passwords, cloud storage, and now meetings. With desktop, mobile, and web apps, Proton Meet is an easy alternative. Like any other meet-type apps, others can join from a link and don’t need an account.

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