Instead of leaving Xitter, they left Mastodon. Proton’s trend is not inspiring confidence and this feels like another step backwards.

@Linsensuppe@feddit.org
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I‘ve been quite tolerant sine now, but this goes to far to leave a mostly left platform.

Does anyone know if its possible to leave Proton and get my money back, as Im in a plan for a couple of months.

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They didn’t even post about this decision! What a shame!

I suggest voting on the following Proton’s UserVoice idea I have just created. This may be the only way of getting their attention.

https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/945460-general-ideas/suggestions/49586459-reactivate-proton-s-mastodon-account

@dukatos@lemm.ee
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Nothing of value has been lost

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due to limited ressources

Is it that hard to post the same thing on various social media? Maybe it is, I wouldn’t know. But that sounds like a shitty excuse.

It looks like they’re not up to date on X tho, hopefully they drop that shit. And they’re on Bluesky, which, if not Mastodon, is a little bit better I guess.

I really don’t get the hidden idea behind leaving Mastodon.

Niclas Overby Ⓝ
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They are still on Bluesky, but they are not active anymore.

@AkashicOwl@lemmy.world
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Their last post if from 14 days ago, not sure how often they usually post tho

Niclas Overby Ⓝ
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They post most days on X: https://xcancel.com/ProtonPrivacy

Meh

Dr. Moose
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Another L by Proton. Why would they even say it and just stop posting silently.

Even if you agree with Proton’s positions it’s clear that Andy is just tanking the company’s image with such rookie leadership mistakes.

Incredibly incompetence which makes you wonder how competent the actual code running everything is?

@Fashim@lemmy.world
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What ashame, I thought the CEO should be poked in the eye with a blunt stick for his Trump support but I would’ve kept with Proton if the business and his personal views were kept seperate

It appears this is no longer the case, at least proton provides a lot of decent services I don’t mind abusing for free now.

@wowwoweowza@lemmy.world
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I’m a proton user but I’m out of the loop. Please paste link or give me the tl/dr?

@stardust@lemmy.ca
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Here’s one archive reddit thread proton responded with that has since been edited to remove the comment.

https://archive.ph/quYyb

There’s also a medium article from a random user that keeps being reposted to defend him. https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e

But, it leaves out that Gail Slater left the FTC to became vice-president for legal and regulatory policy for the Internet Association which is a lobbying group for companies like Google, Amazon, eBay, and Facebook.

The Internet Association—a trade group for big technology companies such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon—spent nearly $176,000 to lobby the California legislature last quarter, according to the Washington Post. It is now running misleading ads on social media asking Sacramento lawmakers to weaken the law.

The group claims that surveillance-based advertising technology, which slurps up and broadly spreads consumers’ personal data without their knowledge, should be exempted from the CCPA. In truth, surveillance-based adtech is one of the worst privacy hazards that the law was designed to stop. It also provides little benefit to online publishers, and erodes trust between companies and their consumers.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/lawmakers-must-not-let-internet-association-weaken-california-consumer-privacy-act

Which is a pretty big omission if the argument the founder/CEO made hinges on trying to make people believe Gail Slater having been on the FTC means she fights for little tech.

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Whoo boy. The Proton CEO posted a deeply troubling remark praising trump and republicans as the champions of the little guy, and lambasted democrats for being in the pocket of big tech. This, understandably, seemed rather… icky to a great many people, who dislike the idea of the service they trust for privacy kissing the ring of the Fascist in Chief/Putin’s Towelboy/Elon’s Hamberder Carrier. This might have been more palatable if it was made clear that Proton itself does NOT endorse the policies of Melon Husk’s puppet administration and the MAGAt Horde, and that the original post was made by the CEO in his capacity as a private citizen, and not as the CEO of Proton.

So when, in the face of backlash from the federated community, Proton decided to just leave the fediverse, rather than clarify its position, but stay on Reddit & the Xitter, using the half-baked excuse of “it’s too expensive for us to cross-post on this completely free system”, people, understandably, took this to indicate that Proton, previously one of the most trusted privacy companies, may not be as independent as its swiss headquarters leads one to believe.

@wowwoweowza@lemmy.world
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Hugely disappointing! Can’t believe in a single thing!

@Marleyinoc@lemmy.world
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Not that they’ll care but I bought for two years but will find something else when that runs out.

I only use their Drive, I need a privacy focused alternative with a browser version in case I can’t convince my family to download an app, any recommendations?

@Bruhh@lemmy.world
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Filen.io is decent. Client is open source and storage is locally encrypted. They claim to use zero knowledge tech on their end.

Additionally, look into rclone to upload and automatically encrypt data to cloud providers. This way, cloud providers can’t access your data regardless.

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@skozzii@lemmy.ca
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One shitty CEO can destroy a company the same way one shitty president can destroy a country.

@Hiro8811@lemmy.world
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This ain’t a fucking airport

I understand. Why use resources on a platform that is so badly designed for new users that isn’t used but to post manga and linux memes from tech nerds? If this is your reason to drop Proton then you’re priorities seem a bit off imho.

@throwback3090@lemmy.nz
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No the reason is they are pro-nazi

@glitchdx@lemmy.world
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every time I hear anything about this shit company, I keep thinking it’s valve’s linux compatibility thingy and I get real confused about why people are hating on it.

@raptore39@lemm.ee
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The lesser company needs to change their name or add a descriptor. Proton Woken? Proton SaaS? Proton Supreme? Proton x GOP? Protonaz…

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I’m so disappointed Proton. So sad, but maybe you already live long eniugh to become evil? Time to move on, aah so bad…It was so great piece of software and so great company in this hell capitalist world.

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