Mostly out of curiosity, but also somewhat related to Proton's recent political involvement, I'm curious about alternatives to using their services, open to suggestions for:
- Proton Mail: anything that can support custom domain, email aliases, and email scheduling?
- Proton Drive: not the most important, but interested in privacy first, encrypted hosting services
- Proton Pass: anything I should take a look at besides Bitwarden and Keepass?
- Proton VPN: that one's the hardest, it was really good, I think Mullvlad is the one most often recommended?
- Proton Calendar: didn't really care about that one, but it was nice that it connected to Mail
My Unlimited plan renewed in December so I'll probably keep it for a year, it was nice having only one subsctiption to keep in mind, but I'm thinking of exploring other options
The Proton CEO explicitly used Proton's official accounts and declared them as the company's official stance.
I don't mind people having political views I disagree with. The lines were crossed when his absurd personal views were published :
edit: I was asked to provide sources so please find them here: https://feddit.uk/post/23386970/14888441
May I trouble you to kindly provide sources for your statements? Your use of plurals indicates that there's more than one tweet, and I am fascinated to learn more.
That's such a strange way to phrase it but I'm going to opt to believe you're human and asking in good faith.
This is what the CEO posting as u/Proton_Team stated in a response on r/ProtonMail:
Source: https://archive.ph/quYyb
To call out the import bits:
That was posted in ther/ProtonMail sub where the majority of the event took place: https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i1zjgn/so_that_happened/m7ahrlm/
However be aware that the CEO posting as u/Proton_Team kept editing his comments so I wouldn't trust the current state of it. Plus the proton team/subreddit mods deleted a ton of discussion they didn't like. Therefore this archive link captured the day after might show more but not all: https://web.archive.org/web/20250116060727/https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i1zjgn/so_that_happened/m7ahrlm/
Some statements were made on Mastodon but these are subsequently deleted, but they're capture by an archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250115165213/https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833073219145503
I learned about it from an r/privacy thread but true to their reputation the mods there also went on a deletion spree and removed the entire post: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1i210jg/protonmail_supporting_the_party_that_killed/
This archive link might show more but I've not checked: https://web.archive.org/web/20250115193443/https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1i210jg/protonmail_supporting_the_party_that_killed/
There's also this lemmy discussion from the day after but by that point the Proton team had fully kicked in their censorship so I don't know how much people were aware of (apologies I don't know how to make a generic lemmy link) https://feddit.uk/post/22741653
I know its a strange way to phrase the request, but I wanted to make it explicit that it wasn't an attack but a good faith request, as you correctly and kindly assumed.
Online discourse is a minefield these days, it's nice when someone notices the effort you put in to not start a fight!
This is interesting stuff. When I get back to my computer I will do more research; I believe there are sites that show removed/revised reddit posts