Andy Yen's values are incompatible with Proton's mission. He advocates for poor security practices, supports fascists, and he verbally abuses his subordinates. As such, I can no longer in good conscience continue to financially support a company with such terrible leadership.
Unfortunately for me, my subscription just renewed last month on a multi year plan, but it does give me time to browse for and experiment with alternatives.
If you're able, I encourage you to do the same and cite Andy Yen as the driving factor for your decision. We can't let these tech bro fascists destroy what little semblance of privacy we have left.
Yea it's a swamp. Mullvad's co-founder Daniel Berntsson is a fasch blockhead too.
I'm leaving protonvpn and thinking about a local VPN provider. Non profit, more expensive, only one country (the provider's).
Which won't fit most people's needs, but for me it's 99% of what I need.
Also I hope being a small organization the IPs won't be blacklisted as much. Using a VPN full time in the last 2 years has become increasingly annoying.
My fallback was Mullvad, but yeah not really an option anymore. I've used Azire, much smaller but kinda similar, it worked ok. Could go back. I'm open to suggestions