Unnecessary and deeply concerning bow to the new “king”

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    It’d actually be super useful if all of the VPN CEOs publicly stated which authoritarian leaders they are a fan of, so that consumers can make an informed choice on how easily they’ll sell you out to the security apparatus of your country.

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    I guess it’s time to look at self-hosted cloud storage services like NextCloud, OwnCloud, Seafile, CryptPad etc. that can replace Proton Drive, but does anyone have any recommendations for a secure email service to replace Proton Mail? From what I read on r/selfhosted, while you can technically run your own email server, it’s just not worth it.

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    OK let me add fuel to the fire. here in Andy’s response he says the tweet was from last year which is technically true but it was from December 2024.

    Also how can he think that Trump stands for little guys when he has elon musk as his pet monkey

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    One thing that this entire situation has done for me is to make me feel more justified in my posture of never paying a subscription for an online service if I can avoid it. So far I’m using Proton stuff for the free tier only, so I can have some degree of relaxation in evaluating any alternatives withotu also having to worry about banking stuff.

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    What is a good alternative for Mail? I’m mostly for Proton because of Data security and Mail aliases. But this move is actually concerning.

    Yes, I know the background behind it.

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    Just some advice for all of you affected by this.

    Begin demanding a response from the ownership of this company.

    “Is this Message approved by your board, and owners”

    Just leaving doesnt make a difference, and some of you in the comments bought services right before this. That fucking sucks.

    We dont have journalists and media on our side to help any more(arguably we never did, but that’s a separate discussion)

    I think there are still good bones in Proton, but you know where at least one piece cancer is, and its in the worst spot. Demand as stakeholders that they remove the cancer or admit its not going to happen. Repeat your messages until they publicy respond as a company not just the head of it.

    Its a shame if you dont do at least as much as expressing that they owe you an explanation and that you need the company as a whole, to why this had happened

    This is a betrayal to many of you, tell them exactly what they need to do

    Good luck. It only takes one of you to suceed and we all win

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    Oh FFS, and here I was recently considering switching to ProtonMail… fuck the fuck off.

    Dear CEOs: if you’re eager to suck dick, I’m sure you can find someone better than authoritarian shitheads. Have some fucking standards.

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    Does anyone have links to the dumpster fire of a reddit thread in one or the Proton subs? There was also one of r/privacy but I can’t find either so suspect they’ve been deleted to try to quell the flames.

    It was very entertaining drama