Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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I moved several years worth of emails off their platform and closed my subscription on Friday. Enough is enough. Iβm not giving this guy another dime. I specifically pointed to andy88βs behaviour in the βwhy are you cancellingβ dialogue. I feel for the good people who work at that company and donβt support this, but we all have choices to make.
What is this about?
Founder/CEO of Proton said something vaguely positive about Trump's one cabinet pick and therefore EVERYBODY IS MOVING OUT OF PROTON RIGHT FUCKING NOW
If its only that, there's be less panic. But he also said something stupid like "rePUbliCAnS stANd uP fOR tHE 'liTtLE gUY'" π
I personally think people are overreacting, but hey, we're on lemmy after all..
ah yes, the American mindset
Glad I cancelled. If the CEO is this clueless and/or and/or ignorant and/or disingenuous do I really want them responsible for my private data?
Yes, because nobody (including you) is probably going to do it better: https://www.theguardian.com/news/oliver-burkeman-s-blog/2014/may/21/everyone-is-totally-just-winging-it
Heaven forbid I have opinions!
Sorry, I took your rhetorical question as a genuine one.
Scratch under the surface of every for profit privacy / anonymity service, you find shitty libertarian cryptobros who probably post racist memes on 4chan while whining about feminism in the man-o-sphere. That doesn't speak to the nature of people who care about privacy, it speaks to the nature of people who care about privacy and also want to do capitalism.
Except Proton AG is owned by a Non-Profit, the Proton Foundation. Andy Yen can't directly pocket the profits, except by asking the non-profit board of trustees to give him a raise in salary (and there's probably legal limitations to the salary, otherwise everyone could just claim to be a "Non-Profit" while secretly making profits).
