Unnecessary and deeply concerning bow to the new "king"
Update: position got backed up by an official Proton post on Mastodon, it's an official Proton statement now. https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833073219145503
Update 2, plot-twist: they removed this response from Mastodon - seems they realize it exploded into their face!
They're is no way Trump wrote that tweet. It is full of punctuation and clearly gets a point across. It was clearly written by someone else. Nevertheless, time to delete protonmail.
Really disappointing. Never imagined this from Proton. Truly dead to me now.
May it live forever even if they delete the toot: https://web.archive.org/web/20250115165213/https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833073219145503
God damn it.
Can anyone recommend a decent free vpn? I can't afford to pay for one rn and theirs is the only reputable free vpn i know of :/
I'm not going to lie, I've been burned by every free VPN I've used due to one scandal or another. I just gave up and pay for Mullvad when I need one. I haven't done much research, but the Brave VPN is probably a decent free one. Or Tor, but it might not be what you're looking for.
I’ve not used it but I see people recommending Mullvad (sp?) a lot.
Regrading Update 2, maybe the other board members can push his guy out? I'm paid for to the end of the year, so I'll wait it out a bit. I'd rather not jump ship, only to have that ship also for pro fascist too.
As a non-american I don't care. I will not move anywhere.
I thought they are based in Switzerland
Burned my accounts, moved to Tuta.
Gotta kiss the new king's ass so he doesn't go after you.
I don't want to mix tech with politics, but what in the actual fuck?
Politics are mixed with everything.
In that case, I see this as speak with your wallet moment. That statement has done it for me and I am dropping proton for Tuta or something else.
How is it possible to not mix tech and politics?
I’m not sure what’s worse, kissing the ring or taking that Trump post seriously. He obviously did not write it, and he also obviously only makes statements like this to threaten others and secure their loyalty. Here we are a month later, and some of the richest tech bros in the country are expected at his inauguration.
Sure. That’s exactly why small businesses thrive in democrat cities, right? And exactly why more small business popped up under Biden, right?
Gimme a break. People are so blind and dumb.
Been using their paid service for months. I have so many aliases. I'm just surprised. Surely this company knows its biggest user base has to be too educated to let this slide.
Yeah this really makes me doubt the security of the service.
Theres the real problem with repugs. They think they are the "little guy"s
Honestly I'll still be using Proton and recommending it because it's just good and a net benefit for everyone, but goddammit Andy you should've taken Swiss neutrality to heart this time and not said anything.
1940s Swiss bank neutrality.
just so you know they have doubled down on their official Proton account. It is not just Andy's opinion: https://lemm.ee/post/52665828/17509919 https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i1zjgn/comment/m7ahrlm
I literally signed up for their VPN last night since NordVPN doesn't offer port forwarding. . . Oh well, I can 30 day guarantee it and get mullvad I guess. All I lost was a bit of time setting it up in all my containers, and any respect I had for Proton
I like mullvad but they got rid of their port forwarding.
They did. Not many choices left that support it, sadly
container as in docker?
I know very little about this but I've used gluetun and it's great
https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun
it supports a lot of VPN providers
I would personally recommend Windscribe. They have a free tier, and include port forwarding, unlike Mullvad
With articles like this I wouldn't recommend them.
I agree that these are a little tacky, however it doesn’t mean their service isn’t good.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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