The CEO of Proton is pro-Trump.
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/
Seeing Proton on the list so many times got me thinking. We let Google take over all of our services, and then they got worse and worse. Is there some system in place to stop Proton enshittifying once they’ve taken over the internet? Especially in light of the CEO apparently being an asswad.
lol who give a shit? Stop bringing politics into everything
This doesn’t change the CEO using an official proton account to praise trump and call him the GOP the party of the little guy. I don’t care about their real ideological opinion, but rather whether they’re going to gargle fascist balls and betray privacy. Trust is a fragile thing
Edit:a word
It took me a while to understand why some apps/services had a + on top
For the love of all gods, stop recommending Proton, it’s run by a fascist Trump-loving cryptoscammer that hates open standards even more than Silicon Valley tech-bros. You might as well use American companies at that point.
That’s strong accusations and the first I’m hearing of that. Do you have a source? Because the only controversy I know of is that their CEO praised Trump’s pick for attorney general for the antitrust division a bit too enthusiastically. Which is not a stellar look but that does not make him a „fascist Trump-loving cryptoscammer that hates open standards.“
he’s not a hitler-loving Nazi he just really likes that Goebbels dude.
The only place people are throwing up the whole Proton / Trump controversy is Reddit and Lemmy. Lemmy is particularly worse. As bad as the endless scrolling of Linux praise and Windows bashing.
There’s an article somewhere where someone did a deep dive and ultimately concluded that the Protons CEO views do not coincide with that of Trump or his party.
There’s an article somewhere where someone did a deep dive and ultimately concluded that the Protons CEO views do not coincide with that of Trump or his party.
Would you have that link by any chance? That would be neat to use as a counter argument.
I am assuming he means this post from the community you linked.
Thanks!
The top comment on that thread seems to counter the arguments quite extensively
Yeah completely omitting Slater’s work lobbying on behalf of big tech like Google and Facebook to increase data mining when the whole defense hinged on that she’d be good for little tech made the medium article seem more like it was from a corporate PR stream. So intentionally deceiving playing up identity politics or not doing its due diligence what a quick wikipedia and Google search of the person Yen glazed over would reveal.
Her past is too questionable for a privacy company to endorse. But, move from Google to proton is still an improvement at the end of the day with its country of origin being its strength despite whatever the founder ceo may think.
These lists are consistently bad. To the extent I’m beginning to think it’s intentional so people don’t like the alternatives and go back to the worst.
It does feel daunting to start, but the community is there to help 😊
That’s how i came and register from reddit just like 5 mins ago and this is my first ever comment.
SAME ! ～(つˆ0ˆ)つ｡☆
TIL that Bitwarden is an US company. I love the product but thats a risk
It’s also self-hostable and FOSS.
Switched to proton pass free from paid bitwarden and gotta say, its just better on so many fronts.
I switched from paid Proton Pass to free selfhosted Bitwarden and it’s so much better (ok I combined it with a lite anonaddy account).
omg again with this propaganda 😱
Shout out to the Arc Browser
Arc is just Chromium in a trench coat
Mapy.cz is an absolute must for hiking in Czechia and Slovakia, Google maps isn’t even close. Not sure how the situation is in other countries though
Curently trying it as my daily driver and it does pretty good job too
Mapy is great for hiking outside of Czechia and Slovakia, I use it a lot in the Netherlands! I had to stop using the navigation tough because I ran into some issues with it.
