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.
Fuck Proton than.
What’s a good alternative I can use?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fucking pathetic
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
Little guys? Like Coca Cola?
I hope you all see thru Trump’s Big Tech bullshit. It’s not to reign them in to make America competitive - or whatever other horseshit he spews out of that asshole he calls a mouth. It’s to get rid of the others so that he controls and censors the fuck out of the only avenue of social communication like his handlers.
Maybe he hit his head or has been replaced by bizarro Andy yen. In any case I can’t believe he would do this to his own company. I started to give him the benefit of the doubt until he updated his statement saying that JD Vance cares about privacy and antitrust… I was like bro okay in done.
Well thats a fuckin shame.
Good to know. Bye Proton.
