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[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

As a new user of proton... Id like to hear what you think is sketchy. I haven't heard anything negative.

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Their CTO made Twitter posts praising Trump for some of his appointments

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for replying. What do you use instead?

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm going to switch to Mullvad. Just need to sit down and do it. Maybe this weekend.

And sorry, it was the CEO, not CTO. Here's a source

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[–] M137@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Really? It's been widely reported. But Proton has spent a lot of time and money to get seen by users who wouldn't have heard about the negative stuff. Even here on Lemmy the amount of pro-proton posts has gone up a lot since the bad stuff came out, it's pretty blatant.

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Here's what I was remembering; the Proton CEO had praise for some of the new Trump admin's anti-trust statements last January, and seemed to support them more generally.

What ended up happening with that? It looked like he tried to walk it back, and maybe didn't intend for that to use the official Proton account?