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!
Someone remind me, what's the first chapter in On Tyranny?
He went after big tech as a punishment for fact checking the bullshit coming from his administration and his followers. That was it.
Now that all big tech has turned away from democrats (probably as punishment for their antitrust lawsuits), we will see a much different perspective from the Trump administration.
Link to the source.
Please dont post screenshots of text. Link to the source
https://nitter.poast.org/andyyen/status/1864436449942110660#m
they doubled down on mastodon (the official account too) but now it's deleted. Here's their comment on reddit: https://archive.ph/quYyb
Too bad, I was considering their service when my VPN service ran out. Not excluding them outright, but will have to keep a eye on it.
Me too. This is disappointing. I think I'm gonna go with Mullvad or Mozilla now.
I've been de-googling and setup my proton mail last week. I'll look for other options.
Fox and Roku, everyone's two favourite small companies!
Why can't we have nice things?
Honestly, building a mail server isn't that hard if you aren't afraid of the command line.
True, but what you should really be afraid of these days are spam filters and hackers. As much as I'd love to selfhost my own mail server, IMHO it's just not worth the risk of important emails getting flagged as spam (both outgoing and incoming), or losing control of accounts due to a zero day attack or other means. The latter might sound far-fetched but I just saw it happen firsthand to a friend. The modern internet is a battleground!
Email is far too important to be set up in a fragile home server.
Unless you have concurrent redundancy with HA servers and multiple Internet connections, it's just not worth missing important emails imo.
Fuck me, I now feel like a clown for taking advantage of that lifetime subscription I bought a couple of months back.
well at least they won't get any money for it
well this makes me slightly less fomo'd after going for tuta and mullvad- but i'm probably jinxing it rn ;-;
Damn, this sucks. I fled Google for Proton and use it for email, files, and my own domain email.
if you have your own domain, then moving off of proton is very painless
I wonder what is the percentage of nuts tech ceos.
Seems to be abnormally high
Rich people tend not be good people in general
the ruling class will always support each other to protect their own class interests. they have what we lack - class solidarity. the only path forwards, which is the path of our own liberation, is uniting the proletariat and transitioning away from capitalism.
I see a lot of good discussion here. I've been on proton for years now, using my own domain. While true that Andy is one of 5 board members, and it's a nonprofit etc, these statements are raising hairs on my neck, personally.
Does anyone have a good guide on problems associated with self-hosting email?
You're gonna need a few books and a full time engineer
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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