Unnecessary and deeply concerning bow to the new “king”
Update: position got backed up by an official Proton post on Mastodon, it’s an official Proton statement now. https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833073219145503
Update 2, plot-twist: they removed this response from Mastodon - seems they realize it exploded into their face!
One thing I saw was lacking in the comments here are some alternatives (Some were named, more self-hosted options, which can be good for a person, but not always)…
RiseUp.net and Disroot.org both are ran by collectives, and both protect your privacy. RiseUp has a log of how they’ve done so, as well.
Did he (the CEO) really need to do this? Orange 🍄 Guy’s probably never even heard of Proton. The transition for me from Tuta to Proton was long and rough, so I’m not prepared to jump ship just yet and really hope I won’t have to.
Hmm… is Tuta still good these days?
It’s not bad
Talking from a usability standpoint it’s gotten much better. It’s still slow to open the app but the search got much better.
say what you will about trump. sure hes a small pathetic man. sure he is under musk and putin, but there are people under him. He may be a sycophant but he is the head sycophant.
Sure, yeah, anti-big tech.
Maybe Waluigi will make a prominent appearance at the inauguration too.
God. Fucking. Dam. It.
I use too many of their services right now to get everything switched over to something else before trump takes power.
The swiss better fucking jail this guy if he hands over data to the us government without swiss court approval, per swiss law.
Now I have to find a new password manager, VPN, and email provider. Open to suggestions, but I want to find services that aren’t hosed in the us or by trump friendly countries/companies, and ideally use open source software and zero access encryption.
Mullvad for VPN, Bitwarden for password manager.
Yea I previously used bitwarden, my issue with it is that bitwarden is hosted in the US(which was the only reason I switched to PP), so I’m thinking about renting a vps and hosting vaultwarden in it or something.
They now have European hosting
Oh this saves me so much time and energy, thank you!
Mullvad for VPN and Tuta for email.
For the email provider i recommend tuta
It might not have all the convenience of Proton Pass, but Keepass has been and probably always will be dependable.
Taking the time to remove Google, embraced proton mail … Maybe it’s time to just write letters and send meme post cards.
hand drawn, because of these fingerprinting yellow dots
Same here; but I’m switching to tuta
Amateur Radio.
There is a mobile app (called “Rattlegram”) that converts a string of text to a wave of audio (played though your phone’s speaker) and then someine on the receiving end could also use this app to decode.
You can use Secure Space Encryptor (SEE) (known as Paranoia Text Encryption on iOS) which is a Open Source encryption app that can turn text into a string of ciphertext using symmetric encryption. Paste the ciphertext on Rattlegram and send it over amateur radio.
Then just decode and decrypt on the other end.
Warning: Encryption over amateur radio is illegal, this is for entertainment purposes only.
(I mean you could also just send the ciphertext over SMS 🤷♂️, but ham radio is cooler 😎)
That’s pretty cool, nice tool for the communication toolbox
Meme post cards are a great idea actually.
Aww FUCK. I’m a huge proton pass user. I don’t want to go looking for a replacement but if anyone knows an easier way to set up email aliases on the fly and reply to emails sent to that alias easily like I can w proton I would switch
proton is CIA
I literally just switched over from Google a few months ago and finally got all settled in. Just great. Does anyone know of any good alternative? I know Tuta exists, are there other options?
What’s that, Lassie? Another platform that’s not self hosted outing themselves as a chud? Well, I never!
Ffs. I just switched a ton of stuff over to proton. Hopefully this is an individuals view and not that of the company as a whole.
Me too… Fack…
No, unfortunately not: https://lemmy.ca/comment/13913116
Nope, unfortunately. See official response posted above.
I’m in the same boat. What a shit show.
It was intended to kind of be my new primary universe for personal communications, leaving behind Google for work/biz.
But… maybe the water is warmer at Tutanota?
I was considering tutanota but it felt too small and lacking some features that proton seemed better for. I may look at it again.
I cannot move from simple login though. I bought a lifetime plan which also includes proton pass and i use simple login extensively now.
I do use a custom domain but not for most things which i use simple login domains. My custom domain uses my full name and i dont want that associated with some random newsletter or game company etc. But important services are on my custom domain so not the end of the world and can change them all. I dont know who could replace simple login though.
Yeah … One leads straight to the other…
Why does he think Trump is against big tech when he’s working side by side with Musk?
Biden’s pick Lina Khan deserves all the credit for aggressively prosecuting anti-competitive practices. However, Gina Slater looks like someone capable of continuing that work and a legitimate admirer of Lina Khan. Yes there are ties to Vance and the FTC office is likely to end up beholden to the egomaniac in chief. So the whole “little man” thing aside (that’s baloney), that’s one person that’s not a shit stain out of all the shit stains.
Look Lemmy, you’re welcome to choose what you want in your life and what you don’t. But being too rigid with letting stupid opinions of a project’s founder will cause you to reject everything and miss the big-picture benefits of having such a project exist. If you look at this Lemmy development co-leader’s opinions on transgenderism, are you going to stop using this software that lets you converse on an LGBTQ+ safe-space instance with no involvement on a social level from said developer/founder?
But being too rigid with letting stupid opinions of a project’s founder cause you to reject everything, would have you miss the big-picture benefits of having such a project exist
That’s the truth. The reason online “communities” constantly argue and never get anything done is because everyone is focused on not doing the wrong things that they forget about doing the right things. A while ago I saw a post making fun of some chuds who compiled a list of “woke” video games that they wanted to boycott. The people in this thread deciding to leave proton because its ceo said something positive about trump once don’t strike me as much different.
Well, that’s a platform I’m leaving now.
