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Ah yes, Proton, infamous for being the knee and ratting out activists to the authorities, pretends it has any semblance of a spine left.
Some Proton Employee really contacted me here on lemmy to basically say that Proton could never do anything malicious, because they are owned by a non profit. Then how the heck can OpenAI be this scummy when they are also owned by a non profit? (See my Comment History)
Protons PR Team is so scummy. They spread misinformation about themselves in public forums and pay Content Creators to say incorrect things about online privacy to sell products to customers that don't need those products.
it probably has to do with the different rules between the US and Switzerland
Maybe those activists should‘ve chosen anonymity over convenience. Proton offers ways to protect yourself. They just take a little bit of effort.
every single one of those cases was the activist fucking up basic opsec not proton. They are open about the metadata stored and that they can be forced to comply by court order.
Meanwhile on Proton'a homepage:
The metadata we're talking about is stuff like ip and time of connection.
Wrapping yourself in the appearance of activism is an effective and cheap marketing tool! You'll get articles written about your bravery.
They were following a court order and only provided account metadata.
They’ll say anything just to distract their users away from them being caught red handed in the act of giving away their data to the governments all around the world.
Classic business marketing.
I kinda want to read more into it before I move all my services from Proton, do you have some links?
And do you have an alternative I can use?
https://cyberinsider.com/protonmail-logs-users/
https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/
https://cyberinsider.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain/
https://theintercept.com/2025/09/12/proton-mail-journalist-accounts-suspended/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45227316