Dems had a choice between the progressive wing (Bernie Sanders, etc), versus corporate Dems, but in the end money won and constituents lost.
Not wrong there…
Yeah, that’s true. But going on to say ‘therefore support Trump’ is … not good.
I think it’s unwise for Proton to try to support any political party. Agreeing or disagreeing with decisions and policies is fair and good; but to say “this is the party who supports the little guy” is a bullshit and unnecessarily divisive.
CEOs having a “who can suck off Trump best” contest?
This is how it’s feeling like, last few weeks. I’ll somehow need to justify keeping my proton plan
This is unbelievably disappointing. Just canceled my annual membership (which was set to renew in ~2 weeks).
Looks like I’ll be moving to Tuta tomorrow.
Why are there no reports and outrage over the pick of Gail Slater? Doesn’t she fit the standard outrage mold? She does seem to be pretty vehemetly anti-big tech. She has driven monopoly cases against VISA, Google and Apple. Surprisingly sober choice as assistant attorney general.
If this is suppose to be “Full MAGA”, then i don’t understand where you draw lines.
Fuck Proton than.
What’s a good alternative I can use?
It seems the guy keeps digging a bigger and bigger hole for himself. Sigh…
By the “little guys” he means himself.
By himself he means corporate CEOs.
I migrated my custom domains to Tuta and canceled my Proton subscription as a result of all of this.
And Proton had fucking better give me a prorated refund.
Fucking pathetic
Way different stance than 8 years ago.
I checked archive and it wasn’t saved to the wayback machine so I added it in case proton deletes it. https://web.archive.org/web/20250115163936/https://proton.me/blog/trump-control-nsa-privacy
That’s a nice one to rub Andy’s nose in. I’ll put that one in my cancellation note.
Wait… I thought Proton was owned by Valve.
Oh well, anyone know a cheap yet reliable VPN I can switch too?
The Proton compatibility layer is a valve thing. Proton Mail/VPN/Pass and so on are from the Proton company.
A bit of an unfortunate name.
Azire is great, they just dont have port forwarding. For that reason I use airvpn witch is okay too.
[edit] whoa, just noticed they got bought by malwarebytes. There goes that recommendation.
Who gives a shit? Proton is one of the best companies when it comes to privacy, why should I care about the CEO’s political views?
Who gives a shit? Many people, obviously. And for many different reasons. Here are two simple reasons why I care:
- The CEO stating support for Trump suggests that either their values align with Trump, or that they are bought / corrupted. Either way, I see that as a sign that Proton is likely to make moves that I disagree with. People’s values guide their actions, and this CEO is showing values that I disagree with. So I can no longer trust their actions.
- Even if the Proton products are perfect, if the CEO openly supports Trump then we get a ‘Nazi bar’ type effect. Whenever I share my proton email address with someone, it will signal to them that I frequent the Nazi bar. … I don’t want that association.
A voice of reason coming from lemmy.blahaj.zone. Seems like my instance sanity meter has not been working properly.
That said, Tutanota is not a bad option and if people want to move there because of this, why the fuck not.
Wow. And I had just about now completed moving my addresses over, fucking hell
Mullvad then I guess?
One of my favourite things about using an email relay is how easy it was to change email addresses. Unfortunately I was changing to Proton. Fortunately I was using my own domain! Unfortunately I pre-paid 2 years.
Same! And there’s not a good email alternative that’s as popular
I just switched to purelymail and I am so far pretty happy with it. Plus its way cheaper.
Tuta is decent. I have been using them for a long time every since proton tried gas-lighting everyone about javascript based browser interface being secure for e2ee.
How did both him and and the rest of the board think this was a smart thing to stand by? Does he really think people interested in privacy also support Trump?
What a way to alienate your entire customer base
What a way to alienate your entire customer base
You really think the entire customer base cares about this?
You’re getting downvoted but I know a handful of privacy minded tech guys who would support Proton even more because of this. I also know quite a few people who share his perspective. And yeah propaganda is definitely in the mix, but maybe just maybe the Democrat party should own some of this themselves.
Little guys? Like Coca Cola?
