Jesus fucking christ, Proton (yes, this is a subtoot of the 404 article).
I just moved there a few years ago to get away from fucking Google. It was a huge project. I do not have the bandwidth to just up and do it again like nothing.
Infuriating.
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@Meznor @darkbeth same boat too. The ethic bankruptcy of Proton is here, and I picked this service when I escaped from gmail because they had a better ethic. I'm really concerned by potential security breaches and letting my email in such an infrastructure. With an internal policy of bullying and forcing to code fast, ship fast, and with AI I see that coming really soon. And it happens the weeks I have to renew my subscription, meh 🥲
@davidrevoy @Meznor @darkbeth I think this is an opportunity for Antonio Gambardella to step up. He's the director of the state-backed incubator FONGIT and chairs Proton's board of directors. He is also president and *sole* authorized signatory of the Proton Foundation, the non-profit reported to be Proton’s controlling shareholder. This gives him more formal governance authority than CEO Andy Yen, who sits on both boards but has no signing power at the Foundation. It is this level of public involvement that keeps me a Proton customer.
@chema @davidrevoy @darkbeth thanks for this context. I'm going to email the foundation right now: https://proton.me/foundation Yen seems to be on the board, too, though.
@Meznor @davidrevoy @darkbeth Andy is on the board, but Gambardella holds sole signing authority.
https://app2.ge.ch/ecohrcinternet/extract?lang=FR&companyOfsUid=CHE-418.863.304
https://app2.ge.ch/ecohrcinternet/extract?lang=FR&companyOfsUid=CHE-418.863.304
Have any of you decided to migrate away? If so, what did you try / where did you go?
I tried IVPN and like it as a replacement for Proton VPN, but for email and calendar, my two frontrunners (Tuta and Runbox) each have drawbacks.
@darkbeth maybe we can do a user-driven petition to fire their CEO?! I'm in the same boat.