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Summary

Proton Mail, known for its privacy-first email services, faced backlash after CEO Andy Yen praised the Republican Party and its antitrust stance.

The company initially posted and deleted a statement supporting Yen’s comments, later claiming an “internal miscommunication” and reiterating its political neutrality.

Critics question Proton’s impartiality, particularly as it cooperates with Swiss authorities on legal data requests.

Privacy advocates warn that political alignments could undermine trust, especially for Proton’s users—journalists and activists wary of government surveillance under administrations like Trump’s.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I cannot fathom being that stupid to believe that Republicans are anti-monoploy when they give huge corporation massive tax breaks and removes barriers for mega mergers

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Biden: puts Lina Kahn in charge of the FTC

Lina Kahn: Goes after monopoly behavior, non competes, etc

Trump: Promptly fires Lina Kahn, day one

Protonmail: Clearly Republicans are for the little guy!

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Again privacy oriented companies that bend to demagogues and desperate profiteers cannot be trusted to handle sensitive data.

Switched from ProtonVPN to Mullvad and ProtonMail to Posteo. Wiped my ProtonDrive. I sleep pretty soundly at night.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

For me, the most-used Proton service after email is their calendar. What privacy-friendly calendar alternatives are there that you can recommend?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Both my new service candidates, mailbox.org and posteo, offer calendars. However, I’m in a holding pattern currently since they are German based. Fuckface is meddling in their elections now, which happen at the end of Feb. so I’m holding off to see how much ground the Afd gains.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

I cancelled my subscription and moved to tuta and mailbox.org in a couple of hours.

I don't consider this a nothingburger and I didn't like how it played out.

Dollar vote.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Welp... Just paid them 80€ for a year and was in the process of migrating my gmail accounts to it. I guess I just lost 80€ and I'm migrating to somewhere else then...

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

More theater do to this today:

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Okay, I feel like the part that people are skipping over is the "cooperating with authorities on legal data requests" part. No. As a privacy company; You DO NOT save and store ANY information apart from what is crucially and imminently necessary to run your service. Anything beyond that is a blatant conflict of interests and should not be trusted. Corruption and data sharing that CAN happen, WILL happen when it comes to data security based companies. Full stop.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Correction; the CEO posted a rather tone deaf message. while this is incredibly dumb, it should be little reason to burn the company to the ground

Having said that, people should start looking at email again how it was designed to be: have thousands of open providers instead of the tiny fee enormous ones we got now

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

We owe no fealty to any company.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is so disappointing. I've already migrated my passwords back to KeePass. Time to start hunting down other alternative. This is what I get for allowing myself the comfort of a centralized ecosystem.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

I thought it was KeepAss

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (6 children)

The thing is, he raises a lot of very accurate points about the Democratic party. Dems are captured by corporations; they're unwilling to do what the people want, and what is in the best interests of the people, because that hurts their flow of money. And yes, tech companies are kissing Trump's ass because he's volatile enough that he could very well regulate them out of business if they aren't sucking his dick. Additionally, prior to his MAGA phase, Vance does appear to have been much more populist in his approach to corporations; he was saying some of the right things, even if his social policies were trash.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Maaaan, what the fuck?!?

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