Protons CEO is a weapons grade assclown.
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2026
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So, funny story that might be related. Engineers directed by their management to tokenmaxx often will just prompt very complex, difficult tasks to drive up their token usage.
Using the metric as the goal is a great way to give perverse incentives. SEE ALSO the US Stock Exchange.
That science adage: To measure, is to change.
"We're not making money fast enough so let's alienate our core userbase and create a toxic work environment! That will surely be a success!"
This 100% actually stopped me from moving my mail hosting to Proton. I'm looking at Tuta now and alternatives. And it's not even the AI stuff so much as his insane toxic behaviour towards his people...the AI psychosis is almost secondary...
What are the options out there for email?
I just double checked (while canceling this years subscription) and I’ve been paying for proton for 10 years. I put in my cancellation notes that Andy is the reason I’m canceling and I won’t reconsider until he’s replaced.
same here, just cancelled today with him and his leadership style as the reason
What would you recommend for someone having a Proton Pass Lifetime membership? Just keep using it or migrating to somewhere else? Or just keep using it since I wont pay anything. Proton Pass is their only service I am using.
I have that as well. I’m not really a fan of the UI. Self hosted vaultwarden is where I’m headed. Although with the way Bitwarden corp has been acting lately I’ll probably have to move off that too
This does very little to convice me to not migrate away.
My #1 issue was them sacrificing Security for Speed and this latest change does jack shit to address it
Look, I am not a tech dynamo, so what can people like me use in place of Proton?
I use and recommend Fastmail.
Damage is already done, though. Get fucked, Andy.
Andy needs to be fired.
I swear that money nukes brain cells.
“Due to insufficient velocity,” Proton is not on track to achieve its annual recurring revenue target by the end of the year, one internal document obtained by 404 Media reads. Proton’s year-over-year growth is also “far away from what the market today considers to be good,” and, “By all metrics that matter, we’re an underperforming company.”
What a bunch of imbeciles. People that use Proton are in it because they value security and privacy. Any AI produced code that's not vetted is inherently insecure, and a huge "fuck you" to privacy as a whole.
"We're no tmaking enough money fast enough, let's go the slop-route". Fucking idiot, what do you think is going to happen the moment the security crowd and the privacy crowd hear about this?
I for one have been preparing to jump ship from my family plan subscription the moment it expires, precisely because of this bullshit Yen has been pushing in the last year or so, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.
I do believe that Yen started proton from a good place, but as is natural for these fuckers, the sight of money completely replaces whatever working segments of their brains were working with shit.
I swear that money nukes brain cells.
You're not wrong. When people get a sufficient amount of wealth or political power, they end up surrounded by sycophants who want a taste of their sweet lucre, or to have that power directed towards a specific agenda, or just to be adjacent to privilege.
Compare the environment that induces AI psychosis.
The effect happens at small scale too. An experiment involving Monopoly games in which one person (chosen at random) got bonus money and turns, the privileged player would get louder, eat more of the snacks and attribute their victory to their skill rather than their bonuses.
... and it is only in so far as the appropriation of even more and more wealth in the abstract becomes the sole motive of his operations, that he functions as a capitalist, that is, as capital personified and endowed with consciousness and a will.
What are the good alternatives for an all in one privacy service like Proton?
None.
You have to self host your own. Don't trust anyone with your data. It's hard to do, specially for email, but sadly it's the only way.
Yeah, I've been test-driving stalwart with encryption and shit in a VPS, so far it's been pretty solid. Using SMTP2Go as a backend for sending to avoid the risk of having my VPS IP blacklisted if something goes wrong.
The moment our subscription ends, if everything keeps going as good with stalwart, I'm jumping ship immediately.
Dear Proton Engineers,
He means they won't do it yet, because the backlash is causing problems. Either because they fear the loss of customers, or because they fear the engineers leaving before getting their replacements trained.
I suspect some folks would poison the training while looking for another job.
Ahh, here's the largest part of the problem.
They said they felt not much could have happened due to Yen having the majority of Proton’s shares.
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