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What's the issue with proton?
Its more of a personal thing. Theyre fine. I started to not like that they've become a, I'm not sure of the right term, but a google-like hub where I store all my info. (Email, drive, VPN, meets, etc.). Plus I dont want to support a company that aligns themselves with far-right ideologies. So it is a personal thing, but they work well enough.
They don't get ad revenue, and they don't have a huge percent of paid users, so by expanding its offerings, they can attract note paid customers, and now businesses-which will both support their free tier customers. I'm happy they didn't "enshittify" and drop free or go ad based.
Idk about the right wing thing, but if they're outside the US, their "right wing" is probably far different than the maga extreme here. understand that's all propaganda by the left and billionaire class, and the amount of actual Trump supporters is small.
I'm not at all supporting Trump either by this comment it's usually the billionaires who own the ads, the media, and keep everyone busy with "left vs right" or black vs white so we don't look "up" at the wealthy who control everything making our real problems.
Oh yea honestly for a bit there I was pretty happy to be using a more privacy-friendly suite. But after a while it just kind of started feeling a bit too familiar to our "do no evil"-removing google and I got uncomfortable.
Totally, not every country's "right-wing" is the same. But unfortunately they have been very open about their support for Trump and many other questionable people. I feel like their interests greatly contradict their model for privacy. It's a lil spooky.
I believe in this sub there is another post showing Proton's official response to their latest controversy which has ultimately led to my decision.
But I will miss the convenience of their suite. I do view their products as pretty solid.
Their suite of apps directly competes with Google's and their webmail does feel very familiar compared to Gmail. But that's where similarities end. So far, being non-US based of the biggest factor as well as offering a site of trustworthy apps that function well.
Unless that changes (with privacy), I'm OK with it being bigger and popular. It's also A LOT easier to convince friends and family to switch to something "branded" vs indie Dev or get them to install something from Github. It gives the general population a sense of trust, smaller/lesser known apps can do.
And that is all completely fine for you to choose for yourself. Would be nice to see a mass migration away from google to proton over all of the blind support google gets.
I’ve been gradually using more of their services, now I’m not so sure anymore… What do you make of their response?
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/26484589
They offer a very convenient suite, so if you feel it works for you, no judgment here. The response you linked is kinda nice to take accountability for supporting (in a way) a controversial creator. Unfortunately it's not enough for me. They openly support Trump (which I understand is a personal preference) and I was starting to get uncomfortable with how much their suite began to feel a lot like google. I dont really want to put all of my eggs in one basket again, y'know?