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- technology@lemmy.world
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- technology@lemmy.world
Summary
Proton Mail, known for its privacy-first email services, faced backlash after CEO Andy Yen praised the Republican Party and its antitrust stance.
The company initially posted and deleted a statement supporting Yen’s comments, later claiming an “internal miscommunication” and reiterating its political neutrality.
Critics question Proton’s impartiality, particularly as it cooperates with Swiss authorities on legal data requests.
Privacy advocates warn that political alignments could undermine trust, especially for Proton’s users—journalists and activists wary of government surveillance under administrations like Trump’s.
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What would be a good alternative? I refuse to support this. Thankfully, I have my own domain, so anything where I can use it would be great, and moving shouldn’t be that hard. Bonus points if I can use wildcards, or at least have a few emails, like spam@mydomain and other.
Oh, and it has to support “+” emails, such as mail+whatever@mydomain.com
mailbox.org works great for me.
Oh ffs, I just made the move to Proton with some stuff a few months ago. I’m really keen on switching the address out on a load of accounts.
Maaaan, what the fuck?!?
And today I got an email saying they’re donating a million dollars to support non-profits for privacy and freedom. Timing, timing, timing.
They do that every year. The 2024 was the 7th edition.
Again privacy oriented companies that bend to demagogues and desperate profiteers cannot be trusted to handle sensitive data.
Switched from ProtonVPN to Mullvad and ProtonMail to Posteo. Wiped my ProtonDrive. I sleep pretty soundly at night.
I mean, if they are praising the orange cock, then whats to make you believe they actually deleted the data like you said, and dont have a backup somewhere.
mullvads good though, cheap and no issues with it.
Yeah I definitively know which service is not getting my donations or subs this year. I’ll continue using their free service for a while until I can migrate most stuff. After all it’s all their cost. If they want to be nazis, the least I’ll be is a load to them.
I cannot fathom being that stupid to believe that Republicans are anti-monoploy when they give huge corporation massive tax breaks and removes barriers for mega mergers
Biden: puts Lina Kahn in charge of the FTC
Lina Kahn: Goes after monopoly behavior, non competes, etc
Trump: Promptly fires Lina Kahn, day one
Protonmail: Clearly Republicans are for the little guy!
Seriously. Kahn was actually trying stuff. I don’t know how anyone could look at Big Tech falling in line with Trump and think that they’re going to be tough on anti-trust, anti-big business.
This is going to be 4yrs of looting and grifting.
Okay, I feel like the part that people are skipping over is the “cooperating with authorities on legal data requests” part. No. As a privacy company; You DO NOT save and store ANY information apart from what is crucially and imminently necessary to run your service. Anything beyond that is a blatant conflict of interests and should not be trusted. Corruption and data sharing that CAN happen, WILL happen when it comes to data security based companies. Full stop.
Imagine being so fucking brainwashed you believe Republicans are for “the little guy”
I just cancelled my subscription and moved everything to Tuta. Tuta also seems to have a political stance much more aligned with my own: diversity, privacy oriented, and eco friendly.
Yeah I’m very much now considering alternative options like Tuta now. Been a Proton user since 2020 and subscribed for over 2 years with them, and didn’t have any intention of moving until now.
Correction; the CEO posted a rather tone deaf message. while this is incredibly dumb, it should be little reason to burn the company to the ground
Having said that, people should start looking at email again how it was designed to be: have thousands of open providers instead of the tiny fee enormous ones we got now
Logic is sadly not a concept familiar to people on Lemmy. If you don’t agree that this literally makes Proton a nazi company - then why are you even here?
You seem to be downplaying it and skipping the part where the companies initial official response strongly backed the personal view he posted and was very nakedly partisan. They later retracted and deleted that official response and had Andy go and argue on Reddit direct. It was a mixed bag… maybe not worth deleting your account over but it didn’t look great and looks worse every day Trump is in office.
I have my subscription for another 6 months. If Andy is still in a leadership role by then, I’ll probably cancel. I stopped ignoring red flags in my 20s. I’m not going back now.
We owe no fealty to any company.
Yeah Proton already burned that bridge. “Politically Neutral” is no longer an option for them.
When I first saw the headline, I thought it sounded like one of those stories about how many Nazis are at the table or at the bar.
When you exist in a 2-party system, and one of those parties are mask-off fascists, and people suspect you of supporting them, saying you’re neutral isn’t a good look.
I already switched from Proton Mail to Tuta. No regrets
I’ve been with tutan for two years now. The service is ok, but they still have some limitations that bother me a bit. Before this issue with Trump, I’d have considered move to Proton, but I guess I’ll stick with Tuta.
I’m considering switching. Would you mind sharing what bothers you?
I’m not the person you were asking, but I recently tried tried Tuta with my own domain and decided to look elsewhere due to a few things;
- No way to import mail, despite it being announced as “worked on” back in 2022. This is a fairly huge blocker IMO.
- Email rules don’t seem to apply until you view (and I assume decrypt) your mailbox. This led to some annoying behaviour like push notifications for emails that should have had rules applied to them.
- Spam filtering is all over the place - it’s overzealous and filters legitimate emails, and at the same time it lets in plenty of actual spam.
- The mobile apps are odd - you get realtime push notifications, but when you open the app and view your mailbox, it takes 20-30 seconds for it to show the email it just notified you about (even if you tap the notification).
- Their history of outages and instability are a big cause for concern IMO. Email is a crucial service, so uptime, deliverability, and data integrity are paramount.
For routine/non-sensitive email, they feel like too much hassle for the average punter in my opinion. And if I put on my industry hat; their frequent downtime is a huge red flag, and a sign that they either don’t know what they’re doing or don’t have enough cash to operate properly.
Having said that, I still think they’re the best current option if privacy/encryption is your only concern - to the best of my knowledge no one else takes that quite as seriously as they do.
I’ve been using Tuta since 2018 so I’ll give you some of my gripes:
- The domain gets blocked by spam filters when I email other people. Not necessarily Tuta’s fault but annoying.
- I get a ton of spam and phishing emails. A ton. Everyday I’m flagging like 4-5 of them.
- Tuta just got labels. I can now label my emails but Proton had it for years (I also use Proton)
- Tuta constantly have outages. I hope they improve their infrastructure.
- I personally like Proton’s UI/UX better
- I use the desktop client in both Windows and Linux. The Linux one is an Appimage that I have to run using --no-sandbox and I just don’t feel comfortable doing that. Proton has Proton Bridge which I can use to interface with Thunderbird which I prefer. Now whether it’s as secure or not I don’t know because security isn’t my specialty but I like using Thunderbird for my email client.
Edit 1: fixed typo
The domain gets blocked by spam filters when I email other people
Do they not let you use your own domain name? I wouldn’t use an email provider that forces you to use their domain… It makes it a pain if you ever want to switch provider.
They let you use your own domain now. But I’ve been using this provider since 2018. The article I linked to was written in 2022 so 4 years later. I was already established so I’ll have to go through a lot of services to change it. But if I change everything to my domain then what is preventing that domain from getting flagged? I don’t know enough about spam filters.
But if I change everything to my domain then what is preventing that domain from getting flagged?
You likely won’t ever be sending spam, phishing emails, viruses, etc from your own domain, so it has no reason to get flagged.
It’s worth the pain to switch to your own domain, since you’ll likely never have to change your email address again. I’ve used several different email providers over the years, but if you email me at an email address I used 20 years ago, it’ll still get to me today.
Any good alternatives for ProtonVPN when visiting China? ProtonShield looks pretty promising and with 10 devices for 9,99€ a month my whole family (8 people) would get it for our trip
nice advertisement.
Maybe just don’t worry about connecting home and getting mail / news while you’re vacationing.
Shadowsocks is free and what most people there use.
Search engine: what Vpn’s work in china 2025
There’s no limit of reputable alternatives.
More theater do to this today:
They literally do this on a schedule every year, this isn’t any different than what they did last year, or the year before that, when there wasn’t any of this conflict.
Or the year before again etc. It’s their 7th edition. Apparently the memory of outraged netizens has a very short time window…
