When called out on it, they then doubled down on this dogshit take: https://archive.ph/quYyb
Oh my God. I went directly to the Reddit thread. Why is the Reddit UI so bad? How can people use that?
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Well I no longer will be recommending proton to people. Can't trust anyone this stupid with privacy.
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It seems the guy keeps digging a bigger and bigger hole for himself. Sigh...
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Enshittification in high gear mode. The other day they've been exposed for backpedalling on their promises to spare inactive accounts that were created before 2024 until next year from the inactive accounts deletion policy.
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I'd like to know what maga is going to do for the little guy besides more grifting.
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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.
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Just canceled my subscription and let them know in the comments it was because of this.
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By the “little guys” he means himself.
By himself he means corporate CEOs.
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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.
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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.
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Here is our official response [...] the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.
lol
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Fucking hell. I just signed up for Proton last week. Why do these "alternative" companies always end up being run by techbro dumpster fires like their mainstream counterparts?
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For my fellow German readers: An affordable green alternative to Proton hosted in Berlin is Posteo. https://posteo.de 1€ / month to have your mail hosted by a non-shitty company is a small price.
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Wow. And I had just about now completed moving my addresses over, fucking hell
Mullvad then I guess?
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If there's a way for the rest of Proton to force him out, now would be a good time to save face.
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cancelled today. I have a few months to find alternatives. I've been a paying customer for years. Proton has always been a bit buggy but it was worth it I thought. bowing down to tRump is a deal breaker.
What Trump really means here is "big tech has run amok they need to kiss my ring first and then they can do whatever the fuck they like". He has identified big tech companies as a key component to cement his future dictatorship and he is not wrong.