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Proton has respond on reddit (europe.pub)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/privacy@programming.dev
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[–] 63 points 4 months ago (13 children)

It's a good PR statement.

But first the trump thing, and now this. They should have been WAY more cautious about this kind of thing.

But they weren't. For some reason. Maybe it's standard corporate neglect. Maybe it's that they're trying to support the far right without looking like it. Maybe 100 other things.

I'm not inclined to give Andy Yen a pass because that was egregious, but this seems like they may have allowed people to request sponsorship without enough vetting.

It's still two strikes.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    https://vger.to/lemmy.ml/comment/26101269

    And they are sponsoring the far right grandson of a military dictator in Brazil who has pushed coup attempts.

    The strikes just keep adding up.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    I was looking at VPNs to use and liked how proton had the email and other features. Them supporting someone from Trump's cabinet a few months back sort of killed that. This sealed it. Three strikes are not necessary.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    I bailed on them the minute they made that mistake. I had been very content with their service though less so with all of the new things they were rolling out like the crypto wallet, etc. I miss the convenience of everything in one place but it sounds like I ditched them at a good time.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    what are you using now? My wife and I struggle to find reasonably priced alternatives. We really only use it for email and password management.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    For a VPN? I use AirVPN but I think Mullvad and IVPN are generally considered best in class for privacy, all of which get down to $5/month depending on the plan you choose.

    For password manager I use Bitwarden, but they went through their own controversy a couple weeks ago, so.

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