Mostly out of curiosity, but also somewhat related to Proton's recent political involvement, I'm curious about alternatives to using their services, open to suggestions for:
- Proton Mail: anything that can support custom domain, email aliases, and email scheduling?
- Proton Drive: not the most important, but interested in privacy first, encrypted hosting services
- Proton Pass: anything I should take a look at besides Bitwarden and Keepass?
- Proton VPN: that one's the hardest, it was really good, I think Mullvlad is the one most often recommended?
- Proton Calendar: didn't really care about that one, but it was nice that it connected to Mail
My Unlimited plan renewed in December so I'll probably keep it for a year, it was nice having only one subsctiption to keep in mind, but I'm thinking of exploring other options
He made one tweet
Then the company issues a statement
No more tweets or support
I mean, come on .. it's blown way out of water
Everyone has a different level of tolerance. Personally, Andy can belch all the political crap he wants since Proton is a completely separate entity. But, when the official Proton account doubles-down on views I disagree with (which they've since deleted), that's what crossed my threshold. I've since moved to another service.
A tweet and then several posts form the official Proton account. Furthermore his comments were so obviously badly informed both about the US government and the nature of his userbase that he clearly lacks the critical thinking to run the company.
Also because no one mentioned them yet, Filen is great as a Drive replacement, and unlike Proton they have a Linux app.
If we did this when Google of Facebook started with shitty things now even the megacorp hellscape would be just that tiny bit better & even capital would have to work/give more for the people.
So when a Proton does a weird (which it def was, super weird, even in case of a Democrat win in USA the twaat would have been inappropriate since neither campaign ran on a pro privacy and free internet principles), this should be the reaction of its userbase.
It's exemplary is what it is, not overblown, it is how humans shape society, how they "vote" for direction and for the people.
People have the right to chose their merchant in the same manner they chose their life partner... anything goes, it is personal preference.
Andy fucked up by not reading the room and now he is suffering the consequences for his brave leadership.
I am wondering who he thought his user base was now... is his this out of touch?!
He also misunderstood that while boycott google does not work because normie aint got nothing to hide and it is convenience! A gal or guy who switched to proton did so for a very specific reason and they ARE WILLING TO SUFFER for that extra inch of "freedom"
I aint switching yet but I am monitoring Proton. i expect improvements such as no ADS to paying customers.
I was pretty unhappy with his leadership of Proton since its inception. Barely any work on basic features like email or calendar, constant need to rewrite the whole thing because they had some horrible backend architecture, then prioritizing crypto wallets nobody asked for and shoving more AI into places we don't care about.
I already canceled my paid plan and switched, and it honestly feels like a breath of fresh air. Things fucking work beautifully well compared to Proton's garbage UX.
Maybe it is an overreaction. With copious alternatives and the footprint i had its relatively painless to move. I don't need to stay with a service that even slightly supports things that I don't agree with. Its my money, ill spend it how I like.
As I mentioned in the post, this is mostly out of curiosity
I agree.
They stumbled into a political mess, it was naive and foolish but it doesn't mean the whole of proton should be written off.
I'm not looking for an alternative. Although it is also good that people have other options to share and the freedom to move providers should they wish. I will still recommend Proton to people.