Instead of leaving Xitter, they left Mastodon. Proton’s trend is not inspiring confidence and this feels like another step backwards.
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.
They are still on Bluesky, but they are not active anymore.
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?
One shitty CEO can destroy a company the same way one shitty president can destroy a country.
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?
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.
disroot.org maybe
Not that they’ll care but I bought for two years but will find something else when that runs out.
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.
Meh
I’m a proton user but I’m out of the loop. Please paste link or give me the tl/dr?
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.
Hugely disappointing! Can’t believe in a single thing!
Here’s one archive reddit thread proton responded with that has since been edited to remove the comment.
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.
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.
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.
The lesser company needs to change their name or add a descriptor. Proton Woken? Proton SaaS? Proton Supreme? Proton x GOP? Protonaz…
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.
I was using proton pass but I would like to move on. Is there a good open source password manager that is secure and hosted locally?
Vaultwarden is the opensourced version of Bitwarden. One of the employees of Bitwarden is allowed to maintain it in their own time
Bitwarden premium is crazy cheap anyway. I have proton in limited and still get bitwarden premium.
+1 to Vaultwarden! I’ve been self-hosting it for the family and it works great.
keepass plus syncthing works well for me. I sync between linux, android, windows.
I use KeePassX. there are android, linux and macos clients. i sync them between devices securely using Mega
Depends on what you mean by “good”. I use KeePass. Works for me. Open source and free.
Same. You can sync your database however you want so it’s totally under your control.
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.
No the reason is they are pro-nazi
This ain’t a fucking airport
I really dislike these commercial “private” solutions to surveilance issues we have but people always seem to prefer them because of strong marketing around.
I mean, I don’t have access to a personal international VPN array. For that kind of service, you pretty much have to get a commercial product.
Honestly I would be fine if they just setup some kind of mirror so their posts would show up across different platforms. The biggest issue with then not using mastodon is just not being informed of what is going on. They don’t need to engage with people on mastodon just setup some kind of bridge.
Everyone doing social media posts to multiple networks from a single app. This is a BS excuse from Proton. Very disappointing.
