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Help Me Understand The Proton Hate... (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by pyramidengine@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've been a paid Proton Unlimited customer for several years now and aside from a few small complaints, I'm generally very happy with the services I'm paying for. I agree that there is too much focus on "sidequests" like Wallet and Meet before core products are fully rebuilt and meeting expectations. I agree that Linux versions and some feature implementations are taking a long time. However, I have a fully functioning suite of Mail, Drive, VPN, Calendar and more that meet 95% of my needs. To be fair, I'm sure the zero-access/zero-knowledge encryption aspect makes development much more difficult.

If you're worried about political affiliations/interests, I'll give you that Andy Yen has made a few worrisome comments. I'm not sure what to do there. Assuming there aren't repeat occurrences, I'm satisfied with their statement about the French political figure sponsorship.

If it's the FBI cases and subpoenas, it comes down to understanding the difference between privacy and anonymity, and knowing what strategy is required to achieve actual anonymity.

So why (especially on Lemmy) is there so much Proton hate/relunctancy? Eager to hear some non-biased, fact-driven thoughts here!

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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I too am not particularly convinced that the CEO is MAGA. Just because he did some lobbying with Republicans, that doesn't actually mean he's conservative at all. When you lobby for a cause, you can approach both, even if you don't agree with one. I know someone who lobbied a republican for LGBTQ stuff. They were unsuccessful, but you get the idea.

I do have other complaints about Proton though.

They sent notifications of my proton emails with revealing information to my old gmail account. Had to change alt email in settings, but it still sucks because google can now associate the email content with me, which defeats the purpose of them not having all my data. (This one pissed me off)
The ecosystem is nice but I tend to be nervous about using one company for everything because look how google is. Not a complaint I guess but more cautionary.
They attempt to force you to import all your gmail spam when you sign up.
Warrants happen and they are at risk of retention laws. Don't like retention laws, could be a problem.. Tuta doesn't have retention laws, but I think they're in the 5 eyes or 14 eyes. I guess it doesn't matter if they don't retain data.

That being said, getting away from Google to use Proton is still good because it causes competition. I moved to Proton until I could find my forever email home. Good job degoogling everyone!