Proton CEO supports business policies of republicans

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/37218429

When called out on it, they then doubled down on this dogshit take: https://archive.ph/quYyb

The initial post could just be chalked up to naivety if we’re feeling charitable, but using the official proton accounts for this stuff is an extremely bad move. Then half-assedly retracting it without acknowledging he posted it, doubling down, and making every classic PR mistake. Aside from potential capitulation to a regime that clearly values power more than human rights, there’s significant risk from a person with such bad judgement having apparently no safeguards or second opinions when he’s posting. What other decisions is he unilaterally making for proton that aren’t publicly known?

He’s another mini Elon wannabe, obviously. They’re coming out of the woodwork lately.

I hope people are taking notes so these scum don’t get to skate later when it falls down around their ears.

This is basically my thinking and why I will be shifting away from their products as well

Cancelled my years long subscription today. Any company that bows down to tRump should be avoided. Vote with your wallet.

I did the same! No more proton unlimited! It is better to use products from multiple companies instead of one.

Who did you switch to? I’m looking to leave proton too with all this.

Mullvad, Tuta, Bitwarden.

Have you used these 3 before (or currently)?

Also curious. I left Mullvad because they stopped supporting port forwarding. Proton seemed like the best second option privacy/feature/price wise at the time. IVPN was touted highly around that time, but it appears they have also phased out port forwarding

I believe AirVPN is the last respected VPN that allows port forwarding.

for mail, Mailbox.org (originally I said posteo but I was unable to get the payment to go through. idk why). For drive, calendar, contacts, passwords, I’m working on setting up nextcloud but it’s not ready yet. I still have a few months before I’m downgraded. for VPN, I’m still looking for alternatives.

More bandwidth for the rest of us!

The post was deleted and they are in cleanup mode. Best thing we can do is post this everywhere and demand a public apology and the firing of Andy Yen.

Otherwise end your subscriptions!

What is the Streisand effect?

We can demand his firing but unfortunately he’s one of three founders, he’s unlikely to be fired. But I hope it’s a wakeup call to them that they should have a policy of keeping their mouth shut on politics, including all board members.

Grrrreat… Can anyone please suggest an alternative? I’ve switched to Proton trying to de-Google…

For Email: Posteo, Tutanota, Disroot

For VPN: Mullvad, AirVPN, IVPN

For password manager: Keypassxc, Bitwarden

Can Tuta use a gateway similar to Hydroxide for Proton? I like my traditional email clients and have a machine I trust to encrypt/decrypt.

I believe they only allow you to use the official Tuta email client.

What do you suggest for cloud storage?

I don’t have a lot of experience with cloud storage, but Filen.io appears to have a good reputation. They offer a lifetime license as well in 100gb chunks (under starter packs), which is interesting, especially if your storage size needs aren’t great.

pCloud has 500tb lifetime for $200

I suggest Storj Tardigrade. It’s client-side encrypted by default (assuming you’re not using S3 gateway).

Or support one of the last non-chromium browsers remaining by getting MozillaVPN/Relay and password manager

I’ve been looking at fastmail and tuta

Thank you for the recs, will add them to the list! Maybe it’s time to go from one to many…

Damnit, same thing here.

I switched to PurelyMail and haven’t had any problems. Just mail with no marketing or other bullshit

Excellent, the more options the better! Thank you!

Guy who sells VPNs really supportive of political party that blocks parts of the internet regionally

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