Privacy focused company move off privacy respecting service and suggest following them on privacy nightmare service. Are they trying to kill any trust in their own company?

This is unexpected, as they had around 50k subscribers on Mastodon, and mirroring posts is super easy.

1000% this. It's easy to mirror, so the idea that "it's too hard, boo hoo" is cover for something else. Given the recent diatribes by the head, this just seems like more indication that Proton is going to play ball with authoritarians (or at least ultracapitalists, who are bosom buddies with the authoritarians).

Is this because everyone gave them shit about their CEO’s breathless praise for a tyrant?

Proton the privacy company... "follow us on reddit"?

I think I'll cancel my services with them now. Thanks for making it easy. Idiots.

RIP, another one bites the Drumpf

Glad i left proton.

I think this is the last strike for me, where do you go from Proton, I know for vpns I'll likely be looking at mullvad, but what about passwords/email/calendar/drive?

I quite liked the setup for creating individual email addresses per service and used that heavily, which I assume will make this transition painful.

i wonder if they are getting paid resources to move to reddit/meta only

I hate how volatile everything is. I think 2025 will be the year we see what companies and countries shake out. It's too early to see where all the cards will fall.

Awh. Little babies couldn't handle the heat from their own customers. Good riddance.

Now it is easy to decide whether Proton is viable or not. Not their first strike. Hopefully users now know what their philosophy is

I hope they come back. These other platforms are getting enshittier and enshittier by design.

You guys know you don't have to follow businesses on social media, right‽ Like, it's all just different flavors of their own advertisements, and you can just not interact.

I don't use their mail much, but this will get me to switch vpn to mullvad. I just wish the price was similar, proton had some sales to make it fairly cheap.

Let's hope they consolidate their social media presence further and stop posting on most of their other profiles as well.

It's their call anyway, as is anyone else's to keep using their services or not. I don't think most of these companies' use of their official social media profiles benefit anyone, and it's certainly not a meaningful enough news for the echo they're getting. Anyone truly interested in whatever Proton AG is doing will probably have a Proton account and undoubtedly receive frequent emails from them. Any stunts made by community managers representing them are just ephemeral noise.

Can someone recommend a VPN that is GUI like Proton VPN for Linux? Email I've seen plenty of so the options are fresh on the mind. Thank you! :)