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      Their Swiss CEO decided that supporting an authoritarian American neo nazi regime was a good idea

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          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.

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          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.

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      Nothing. The CEO dared to congrat someone (Trump) that other people (including myself) heavily dislike from the wrong account. So, tolerant and rational people want to cancel him and his company.

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        I’m sorry but what possible positive can you find in Proton doing that?

        In what universe does his kissing the feet of that dicator equate to us keeping our lives private?

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          Whatever, guys. I don’t care about Proton, I don’t care about it’s CEO, I don’t care about Trump (quite the opposite, actually). Be enraged on every little shit and don’t forget to ask even the grocery guy about his political preference. Maybe you’re giving money to someone supporting Trump or his local equivalent. The internet and its virtue signaling is becoming increasingly annoying these days.