Proton CEO embraces Trump for "standing up for the little guys"
Proton CEO embraces Trump for "standing up for the little guys"
Unnecessary and deeply concerning bow to the new "king"
Makes me feel a lot less confident about having a protonmail account. Best alternatives for privacy?
Keep in mind this is only one of five board members of the Non-Profit that owns Proton AG
still not a good look when your selling point was being outside of 5/9/14 eyes and you're cozying up to the government of objectively the worst country, privacywise
Thank you.
Best? Hosting an encrypted email server in your own house. As a service, mailfence seems to be a decent alternative
Can you elaborate on what software or solution would allow someone to host an encrypted email server? Would outgoing messages be encrypted or just encrypted at rest? What about if you also had your family member on the same setup and you wrote to each other, would it be encrypted?
Perhaps riseup if youre an anarchist or posteo if youre willing to pay a low fee?
I use posteo myself. Its alright and reliable. Would try Riseup (kinda got political) but idk anyone to ask for an invite code
disroot.org maybe
I like them
The fuck? Way to flush the credibility they built down the drain.
Money.
I guess Andy or the proton social media team has started using the corporate bluesky account to discuss it now.
Oof, using the Official brand account to post shit like this? 🤨
Did the other 4 board members of his Non-Profit organization (that owns Proton AG btw) approve this, or did Andy Yen got too comfortable and see himself as a king?
Absolutely big off to post that shit from an official account. He's not the only one working at Proton and this is not going to play well with proton users.
I'm seriously thinking about looking at alternatives. He must've gotten too much money now and gone republican.
We didn't get what we wanted so we choose evil.
Never used em but i feel for people who did.
Muted and blocked. Got it.
Was considering them, now I'm not. I'll keep using mullvad.
Yikes. I was just about to shell out for Proton VPN, but now I won’t.
I would suggest Mullvad as a trustworthy alternative.
I too can vouch for Mullvad, excellent service and privacy
ugh, gross. i just signed up for a month to try and get away from google and the rest of the us companies bending the knee. how to trust proton that they won't give up your data the second trump asks now? time to get a refund and put it toward infomaniak sigh
I was wondering, is proton as trustworthy as everybody says? I generally dislike it because its closed source, but that makes sense considering they have to host servers. but this makes it seem... uncredible. any alternative to protonmail?
I generally dislike it because its closed source
I mean, the user clients are open source (right? correct me if I'm wrong). So if you compile it yourself, it should be safe.
So for the contents of email, drive, calandar, those things should be safe. They could secretly keep a log of metadata and IP addresses, tho. The VPN, yea that is basically just requiring trust
Also, Proton AG is now controlled by a Non-Profit organization, Andy Yen is only one of the five board members.
Speedrun any% to kiss that ring
Proton better shut this dude up as I really don't want to find a new platform :|
bad news, Proton’s official reddit account doubled-down on it as a company position (edit: but it was also him too)
I believe that but it would be good to have a source and an archive of the original tweet.
https://x.com/andyyen/status/1864436449942110660
https://archive.is/l1WYU (idk why archive.is is taking so long to archive it... but wait a bit and the archived link should be up)
Not the first time, he also paised trump for... checks notes posing for a photo right after he (supposedly) got shot.
https://x.com/andyyen/status/1812442643726537182
Like that was the dumbest thing to do after getting shot, standing out in the open so a second shooter have time to aim again, how is that worthy of a praise?
But keep in mind, this guy is only one of five board members of the Non-Profit organization that owns Proton AG.
Thanks, you're awesome! (I could not find those sources by myself...)
If the other 4 don't get rid of him, they're just as complicit. I'm giving them 3 months to decide.
They use examples of when they did pro-left actions in the apology and explanation , but they never once proclaimed with their official account support for the left, and that's the difference.
The apology and explanation fell way short of the mark. He tried to appease the facists and alienated Proton top clients.
Does anyone have info on the ‘two anti trust bills’ the official account is talking about?
The two antitrust bills associated with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are:
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American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA): Sponsored by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, this bill aimed to prevent Big Tech platforms like Amazon from favoring their own products over competitors' in online marketplaces[1][3].
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Open App Markets Act (OAMA): Led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, this bill sought to curb Apple and Google's dominance in the app ecosystem by promoting fair competition and limiting self-preferencing[1][3].
Despite bipartisan support, Schumer did not bring these bills to a vote, effectively stalling their progress[1][3].
Citations: [1] Schumer Kills Bills Big Tech Feared Most | TIME https://time.com/6243256/schumer-kills-antitrust-big-tech-bills/ [2] Senate leader Schumer met with Microsoft President Brad Smith to ... https://fedscoop.com/senate-leader-chuck-schumer-met-with-microsoft-president-brad-smith-re-anti-big-tech-bills/ [3] Schumer Accused of Caving to Big Tech as Antitrust Bills Languish https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/17/schumer-accused-caving-big-tech-antitrust-bills-languish [4] faq https://www.google.ca/policies/faq [5] Big Tech And Its Congressional Allies Kill Most - HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/entry/big-tech-antitrust-bills-chuck-schumer_n_63a20cd6e4b0aeb2ace81d7d [6] Progressives pressure Schumer to call a vote on tech antitrust bills https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/22/23273924/progressives-antitrust-reform-bills-klobuchar-chuck-schumer-aico [7] With clock ticking, battle over tech regulation intensifies https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/27/antitrust-tech-battle-congress/
Thank you very much!!
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Makes sense. The little guy did vote for Trump
Not with the obesity rates among the conservative base.
Yes, even obese people can vote. What's your point? Or are you confused about the phrase? It's not literal, FYI
Maybe he is talking about height?
