# Seeking Guidance on Managing My Proton Account for Better Privacy

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/seeking-guidance-on-managing-my-proton-account-for-better-privacy/34300
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** 2025-12-30T13:57:27Z
**Posts:** 7
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## Post 2 by @pine — 2025-12-30T14:11:16Z

Others will no doubt be able to give better answers, but just to get you started, I think you’ve identified one of your key challenges:

If you rely on Proton to hide your IP, how do you hide it from _them_?

If your goal is to reduce the data Proton has on you, I think you might benefit from compartmentalization. There’s multiple ways to go about it, but a simple approach could be this one suggested by dngray, where you use different providers for different groups/“islands”:

> [@Everything in Proton or Using different services?](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/everything-in-proton-or-using-different-services/29664/25):
>
> My general rule is to keep three major islands
> 
> - Email
> - VPN (anonymization)
> - Secret storage (passwords)

Many people also group calendar and email, since these are frequently implicitly tied to your real identity based on their contents, but your case may differ. :slight_smile:

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