AFAICT, it looks like all he's doing is praising Trump's pick for AG in the Antitrust division . . . although if you look over her Wikipedia page, you're right, it doesn't look all that encouraging.

Can someone on Mastodon ask the Proton CEO what it was exactly that she did that he likes so much? Anyone who can work at Fox for any length of time, frankly, is complete and utter shite.

EDIT: Also, just as a broken clock can be right twice a day, President 🍄 sank the Trans Pacific Partnership, which was the right thing to do, but for the wrong reason: mainly to get back at Obama for existing. So in the same way, I suppose it's possible that Slater did something good, but I'd sure like to know what it was.

My personal recommendations:

https://uberspace.de/

• Server location (jurisdiction): Germany
• Integrity/trustworthiness/transparency: About-Page
• User experience/ease of use (grade 1 to 10, lets take Proton as a benchmark with an 8): 6
• Pricing: Based on solidarity, but recommend minimum is 5 € per month

https://www.hostsharing.net/

• Server location (jurisdiction): Germany
• Integrity/trustworthiness/transparency: well, you own part of hostsharing if you use it (collective-ownership)
• User experience/ease of use (grade 1 to 10, lets take Proton as a benchmark with an 8): 6
• Pricing: 64 € onetime payment + 10 € per month (cooperative)

Other recommendations:

• mailbox.org, systemli.org, riseup.net, posteo.de (as far as I know all of them are located in Germany)

Damn it my two year subscription just got refreshed...

Thanks for this post. Any alternatives for Drive specifically?? Including self-hosted options

https://soverin.com/

Before you decide to go back to Google or close your account, keep in mind that Proton became a non profit organization with the main mission of protecting your privacy. And as a non profit, they're not trying to profit off of you in any way.

Going back to Google is the worst solution you can use. Remember that Google donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund. Google also doesn't care about your privacy. On the contrary, they're selling your data and using it against you.

While the Proton CEO may be a nut case, he's only praising the choice that Trump made as the candidate for the antitrust department. While that's understandably stupid since I don't believe Trump is going up stick up for the little guy now that he's got Musk and Zuck in his pocket, at least he didn't actively donated and enabled Trump either personally or through his platform and spread misinformation.

Think about it.

At least with proton, the fact that you're different, that you're 2SLGBTQ+, is safe. Or at least substantially safer than Google.