CEOs having a “who can suck off Trump best” contest?
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.
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.
What Trump really means here is “big tech has run amok they need to kiss my ring first and then they can do whatever the fuck they like”. He has identified big tech companies as a key component to cement his future dictatorship and he is not wrong.
For my fellow German readers: An affordable green alternative to Proton hosted in Berlin is Posteo. https://posteo.de 1€ / month to have your mail hosted by a non-shitty company is a small price.
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.
Okay I’m researching tuta now … I have a 2 year sub already though. Was literally in the process of moving from Gmail. Self hosted is tough for me. I guess this is the new normal. Milkshake duck…
Fuck Proton than.
What’s a good alternative I can use?
God damnit. I just swotched to Proton this week
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.
Well, if he means tech companies that generally get smothered by unfair competition due to tech monopolies, as I believe he does, he is right to refer to them as the little guy.
Also let’s not forget that he is the tech CEO of a company which offers great products that don’t harm users, that raised tons of money for other nonprofits in the privacy space and that ceded control to a nonprofit to ensure they stay consistent with those values. He is for sure not a regular Joe, but comparing him to a regular corporate CEO is disinformation IMHO.
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.
I need to do this. I hope I can get my money back but they can choke on it if not I guess.
Way different stance than 8 years ago.
I don’t think it’s way different. Yeah he’s not praising Trump here, but he’s certainly not taking a stance against him either, more trying to calm down worried people about Trump being in control now.
That’s a nice one to rub Andy’s nose in. I’ll put that one in my cancellation note.
Fucking pathetic
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
Thankfully privacy is not (yet) a left/right issue. Plenty of rightwingers that also care about privacy and plenty of leftwingers that don’t.
Wait… I thought Proton was owned by Valve.
Oh well, anyone know a cheap yet reliable VPN I can switch too?
Mullvad VPN. The one and only VPN recommandation i give.
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.
