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.
I just finished a long process of degoogling. Don't tell me I have to deproton now. Ugh.
I was going to use them to de-Google.
Then he did stupid shit and I passed on going proton.
Then I considered:
Host your own for what you can/want to.
Seperate the things you don't wish to self host and put them with companies you like for the time being.
If one of them becomes awful, you're only moving one service.
Self hosting is down the line for me, for sure.
There's a Hetzner option. The server is super fucking cheap. They just give you a virtual slice of a VM and host up a nextcloud. That gives you storage and office apps. Move mail to tuta. Keepassx and syncthing for passwords. ( i would have said bitwarden, but they're in halloweentown at the moment too)
Honestly mail on Tuta is disappointing. It works nut it's very basic.
Rules have one option... send the mail to a folder, of which Trash is one. Can't forward, can't add tags or labels, can't even disable the new mail notification even if you send it to trash.
Want folders to only show up if there are unread messages? Not an option.
Calendar events... want a reminder? You get 6 choices (start, 5m, 10m, 30m, 1hr, 1 day). Want 15m or maybe 2hr? Sorry, too bad... no custom option.
Things work but it's very basic. I wished I'd researched a bit more before took my domain to it. I'll switch later.
I literally just started the process of Google -> Proton, so I feel you. In terms of personal privacy it’s a step in the right direction…I’m not going to self host or anything too complicated so I think that’s the balance for now. Glad others are able to put some pressure on them to do better though!