Any idea what this is about? I doubt Proton has that many trackers, so I was thinking maybe the individual emails? But those would just be triggering when I click on links, which I thought Proton stripped anyways, and I wouldn’t think /e/os would attribute those to Proton either.

      • DahGangalang@infosec.pubEnglish
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        24 days ago

        Not something I follow closely, but to give a synopsis as I remember it:

        One of the execs (I think it was the CEO?) made a pro republican post (on twitter?) celebrating Trump’s presidential victory in ~Dec 2024. Seems like he spouted on about how republicans are the party of privacy and such.

        The post got a LOT of backlash and was taken down, but the same guy is still running the show. With the general gloom about republicans running the US, a lot of the privacy minded types have grown bearish on Proton overall.

        This bearishness has been compounded by Proton focusing on new products (specifically an AI- chat bot and Proton Wallet) over perfecting old ones (making Proton docs usable, improving Linux support, etc).

        I don’t think there’s been any other motion on Proton losing it’s privacy first ethos, it seems like its mostly a gloomy outlook on the direction the company seems to be going / seems to want to go.

        • JetpackJackson@feddit.orgEnglish
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          24 days ago

          Ah ok gotcha, thanks! I still use proton for a couple of accounts that I don’t use often, I mostly use migadu now, but it’s still good to know what’s going on. Thanks!