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  • I didn’t expected this kind of thing to show up today.

  • I don’t want to use a vibecode slop that isnt tested by real humans.

  • I just want a secure and privacy respecting email not ai slop.

  • Good Bye Proton I am Not Happy With You

Any Suggestion ?

  • I want drive and calender support
  • Made by humans not slop machine.
  • FOSS
  • May Be a Linux Client Support
  • pmk@piefed.caEnglish
    242·
    2 days ago

    He supported Gail Slater, who has a track record of trying to break up big-tech monopolies. She was appointed by Trump. And he pointed out that the Democrats could have tried too, but when they were in power they didn’t. Of course, when she actually tried to break up big-tech she was stopped, got into a fight with Pam Bondi, and quit her job in protest.

    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
      142·
      2 days ago

      No, Andy Yen supported the entire Republican party, including praising JD Vance in particular.

      And he used the official Proton Team account across multiple platforms to relay this information to people.

    • BrilliantBadger@piefed.caEnglish
      151·
      2 days ago

      He also posted that repbulicans stand for the little guy. Andy showed who he is, and everyone should beleive him. I did, and left promptly after that. Proton will continue to be a dangerous place until Andy is gone.

      • pmk@piefed.caEnglish
        111·
        2 days ago

        “10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys. But today the tables have completely turned. People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.”

        In retrospect, it was obvious that Trump would side with Big Tech in the end. And the quote is a bit kiss-ass-y. It’s also noting that the Dems didn’t do as much as the Republicans. That’s critique against the Dems, and well earned. Personally, I think we all have a moral obligation to point out that Trump in total has made the world worse in so many ways, but I also don’t think Andy is a fascist and all those things people write about him.

        • BrilliantBadger@piefed.caEnglish
          52·
          2 days ago

          We can agree to disagree on Andy. Whilst I obviously didn’t know specfically how Andy would end up crapping all over his company and customers, the reality is I did and its why I left. Simply because the old adage has never been proven wrong in my experience — “When they show you who they are, believe them.”

          Let’s watch this play out over time, this all gets far worse the longer Andy is around. Andy will continue to reveal his chameleon self, we’ve only seen the surface.

          • pmk@piefed.caEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            I also would like to see a CEO who is more on board with fighting big tech. I dislike that reddit is their go-to forum, that the linux drive client has taken forever, etc. Andy seems more interested in the business side and less the stated values of the foundation. I don’t know how much of that is necessary vs detrimental

    • steelplatedmech@piefed.caEnglish
      1·
      24 hours ago

      This seems overly simplistic focusing on the positive and choosing to omit info that could shed doubt on Andy.

      She left the FTC in 2014 and worked 4 years at the Internet Association lobbying group which the EFF opposed.

      The group claims that surveillance-based advertising technology, which slurps up and broadly spreads consumers’ personal data without their knowledge, should be exempted from the CCPA. 

      https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/lawmakers-must-not-let-internet-association-weaken-california-consumer-privacy-act

      Even if someone had a past that was good. Choosing to then work to weaken privacy on behalf of lobby group that represented companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook should have normal privacy focused companies like Proton hesitate to make public endorsements of a person with conflicting history. What other privacy companies even bothered to make that type of endorsement?

      Andy’s support was also not only her, but his support of JD Vance with ties to Peter Thiel/Palantir and Republicans was under the public cloud of Epstein allegations, global tariff threats, threats of removing checks and balances with Project 2025, intention to ignore courts, and aligning with tech billionaires like Elon with questionable spying allegations and discrimination at Tesla. Most PR companies would have recommended not touching the subject matter if not necessary to do so.

      Even Mullvad and Brave didn’t make political endorsements through the company, so it takes someone with a really strong alignment with a group to make an unprompted company endorsement and not a personal one.