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
There is absolutely a point to shaming and boycotting everyone who acts negatively in public. Of course beeing a secret scumbag is also bad but it doesn't promote scumbaggery to other. A quiet ass does less damage than a loud one.
The Proton CEO explicitly used Proton's official accounts and declared them as the company's official stance.
I don't mind people having political views I disagree with. The lines were crossed when his absurd personal views were published :
edit: I was asked to provide sources so please find them here: https://feddit.uk/post/23386970/14888441
May I trouble you to kindly provide sources for your statements? Your use of plurals indicates that there's more than one tweet, and I am fascinated to learn more.
That's such a strange way to phrase it but I'm going to opt to believe you're human and asking in good faith.
This is what the CEO posting as u/Proton_Team stated in a response on r/ProtonMail:
Source: https://archive.ph/quYyb
To call out the import bits:
That was posted in ther/ProtonMail sub where the majority of the event took place: https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i1zjgn/so_that_happened/m7ahrlm/
However be aware that the CEO posting as u/Proton_Team kept editing his comments so I wouldn't trust the current state of it. Plus the proton team/subreddit mods deleted a ton of discussion they didn't like. Therefore this archive link captured the day after might show more but not all: https://web.archive.org/web/20250116060727/https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i1zjgn/so_that_happened/m7ahrlm/
Some statements were made on Mastodon but these are subsequently deleted, but they're capture by an archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250115165213/https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833073219145503
I learned about it from an r/privacy thread but true to their reputation the mods there also went on a deletion spree and removed the entire post: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1i210jg/protonmail_supporting_the_party_that_killed/
This archive link might show more but I've not checked: https://web.archive.org/web/20250115193443/https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1i210jg/protonmail_supporting_the_party_that_killed/
There's also this lemmy discussion from the day after but by that point the Proton team had fully kicked in their censorship so I don't know how much people were aware of (apologies I don't know how to make a generic lemmy link) https://feddit.uk/post/22741653
I know its a strange way to phrase the request, but I wanted to make it explicit that it wasn't an attack but a good faith request, as you correctly and kindly assumed.
Online discourse is a minefield these days, it's nice when someone notices the effort you put in to not start a fight!
This is interesting stuff. When I get back to my computer I will do more research; I believe there are sites that show removed/revised reddit posts