Their Swiss CEO decided that supporting an authoritarian American neo nazi regime was a good idea
How very neutral of him.
He’s not Swiss, he’s from Taiwan
And they decided that posting on Mastodon was bad so switched back to r*****.
There is that, but did anything happen to the service itself?
Personally, I feel like their service, except for VPN, was always half assed.
- No access to SMTP for automation
- Need to use that shitty bridge to use a useful client
- No pgp encryption in their web interface when talking to people not at proton
- proton drive does not offer any useful protocol like ftp, webdav, or sftp
- Calendar and Contacts cannot be easily synchronized to phone and desktop apps
The list goes on. I have only one account left with a proton email and the letter with a code so I can change that lies on my desk.
Good point. I actually quit proton a few years ago because of the lack of SMTP and caldav.
They definitely allow you to use pgp with people not at proton via the web ui.
There is no way to have a secure or private SMTP service.
Huh? STARTTLS? PGP encryption? What’s wrong with those?
If you’re on Proton to be privacy-oriented and stop governments or corporations from accessing your data, do you really trust the company when their CEO is cozying up to an authoritarian regime? I just don’t see Proton fighting any information requests from Trump right now, and just from a utilitarian perspective that makes them a bad choice for me as a user.
