• @BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
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    151 hour ago

    Ouch! They really are working hard on getting any privacy oriented person to leave them.

    I’m glad I have moved away from them.

    • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      548 minutes ago

      fleeing to reddit of all place, banning any instance of discourse, much like facebook is now.

    • Milan
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      22 hours ago

      i disagree as there are plenty of tools to post to multiple platforms at once. but yea if they were so kind to actually interact then yes

  • @oyzmo@lemmy.world
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    94 hours ago

    From the statement on their webpage: " We believe in people before profits, and our primary shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation whose mission is to fight for an open internet that promotes freedom of speech and freedom of information."

  • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N
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    266 hours ago

    Well this is certainly only one of the decisions of all time. I guess we finally got our reaction from the board. I was waiting, hoping to hear some rebuke of Yen’s bullshit. Didn’t expect another intentional step into shit. Bye Felicia.

    • @null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      45 hours ago

      Everyone recommends Tuta in these threads.

      I just (finally) had a look at their pricing. Seems egregiously expensive? 6EUR / user / month for their cheapest business plan is a bit nuts

  • katy ✨
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    116 hours ago

    Switched to Mullvad for VPN, Baikal for calendar and contacts, Tuta for professional mail, and considering Bitwarden or Buttercup for a password manager

    • @Alk@sh.itjust.works
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      24 hours ago

      Wow, that’s so many different services to splinter one Proton account into. I was thinking about it too, but that sounds exhausting.

  • @commander@lemmings.world
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    -12 hours ago

    Yeah, all the scumbags who use this just for advertising only tried mastodon to see if it would have a significant amount of useful idiots.

  • kbal
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    Pointing people to reddit, as if that’s an alternative. When a VPN provider makes such bad choices it’s tempting to imagine that the decision was influenced by somebody who wants to secretly get the message out that the company is no longer to be trusted, because it’s hard to see any other logic in it.

    • @Scrollone@feddit.it
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      1710 hours ago

      I’m searching for a safe and cheap alternative for my own domain, but it’s hard! And I don’t want to give money to American companies.

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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        88 hours ago

        Tuta is €3.60 a month or €3 a month if you pay for an entire year (€36) not sure if that’s “cheap” in your budget.

        A .com domain is like $12 per year

        Tuta takes like 48 hours to respons, slower than Proton who takes about 12-24 hours, but as long as the response is under 1 week, its fine by me.

        I have only been using Tuta for like a month, still not sure if I’m staying tho…

        There’s also Mailbox.org which is also about €3 a month, which doesn’t have encryption by default and they don’t have an official opensource client. (Tuta has their client on F-Droid)

        • @SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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          129 minutes ago

          Tuta takes like 48 hours to respons, slower than Proton who takes about 12-24 hours, but as long as the response is under 1 week, its fine by me.

          Are you talking about support request response time here? Or what response time?

        • da trippa
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          108 hours ago

          PCMag seems to endorse it.

          Tuta Mail is free for personal use, though you must accept a few limitations. The free edition lets you send and receive all the secure messages you want, and it includes a secure calendar. Searching encrypted email is limited—with the free edition, you can only search messages up to a month old. Paying 36 euros per year for a Revolutionary subscription ($38.65 as of this writing) removes that search limitation, lets you have multiple calendars, and adds features including filtering rules and 15 alias email addresses (more about those later). It also raises the storage for your messages from 1GB to 20GB.

          • Noxy
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            57 hours ago

            yea I just went with a paid plan right off the bat since I have a custom domain, has been totally fine

  • @IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
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    13113 hours ago

    This might sound crazy but this is way worse to me than the CEO simping for orange man. At least for Trump he has a semi plausible excuse.

    Reposting stuff on Mastodon or Bluesky barely requires any additional effort. And I cannot think of a good reason to close abandon the free publicity when they already have it set up.

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      Yea this is worse. The politics thing could be brushed off as Andy Yen being uneducated on American politics. Moving away from an already established fediverse platform is contradictory to Proton’s mission. It doesn’t take more than a minute to copy paste their xitter posts to Mastadon.

    • @MoonlightFox@lemmy.world
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      87 hours ago

      I think the reason is that every time they post something, someone there points out the Andy Yen thing. Thats basically the only comments. So its detrimental to their business.

    • Balder
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      And I’d have thought the potential customers segment are exactly the Mastodon users.