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Unnecessary and deeply concerning bow to the new "king"
Update: position got backed up by an official Proton post on Mastodon, it's an official Proton statement now. https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833073219145503
Update 2, plot-twist: they removed this response from Mastodon - seems they realize it exploded into their face!
Lmao, proton looked sus to me for a long time. Good I never felt for anything more than their email.
They're is no way Trump wrote that tweet. It is full of punctuation and clearly gets a point across. It was clearly written by someone else. Nevertheless, time to delete protonmail.
My dear friend, what is happening over here: “They are is no way…”?
May it live forever even if they delete the toot: https://web.archive.org/web/20250115165213/https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833073219145503
good thing too, because the page is now deleted
Really disappointing. Never imagined this from Proton. Truly dead to me now.
God damn it.
So Proton is out.
Sorry, I won't trust a service that licks fascist boots.
I was about to pull the trigger on Proton. Good to know, I will never use this service now.
This also reinforces my belief that email should be provided by the government. If they are going to spy on me anyways might as well give it straight to them.
I am sick of private companies providing the primary way we communicate when they can kick you off their platform because they think you look funny.
Regrading Update 2, maybe the other board members can push his guy out? I'm paid for to the end of the year, so I'll wait it out a bit. I'd rather not jump ship, only to have that ship also go pro fascist too.
Nothing good is allowed to happen ever again.
As a non-american I don't care. I will not move anywhere.
Smart man
I thought they are based in Switzerland
They are, but US antitrust/monopolies affect the market worldwide. In https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerhuang/2022/12/27/andy-yen-ceo-of-proton-on-the-tech-giants-that-dominate-the-internet-the-webs-future-and-bitcoin/ the same guy discusses the issue in more details.
Burned my accounts, moved to Tuta.
I don't want to mix tech with politics, but what in the actual fuck?
Politics are mixed with everything.
In that case, I see this as speak with your wallet moment. That statement has done it for me and I am dropping proton for Tuta or something else.
How is it possible to not mix tech and politics?
Can anyone recommend a decent free vpn? I can't afford to pay for one rn and theirs is the only reputable free vpn i know of :/
I'm not going to lie, I've been burned by every free VPN I've used due to one scandal or another. I just gave up and pay for Mullvad when I need one. I haven't done much research, but the Brave VPN is probably a decent free one. Or Tor, but it might not be what you're looking for.
I’ve not used it but I see people recommending Mullvad (sp?) a lot.
Been using their paid service for months. I have so many aliases. I'm just surprised. Surely this company knows its biggest user base has to be too educated to let this slide.
Gotta kiss the new king's ass so he doesn't go after you.
Yeah this really makes me doubt the security of the service.
Honestly I'll still be using Proton and recommending it because it's just good and a net benefit for everyone, but goddammit Andy you should've taken Swiss neutrality to heart this time and not said anything.
1940s Swiss bank neutrality.
just so you know they have doubled down on their official Proton account. It is not just Andy's opinion: https://lemm.ee/post/52665828/17509919 https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i1zjgn/comment/m7ahrlm