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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

True, works fine.

Then they said they didn't log IP's then handed over one of their users IP's that got an activist locked up.

There there was the bootlicking incident (it's a paywall but you get the gist before it disappears)

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

He praised Trump publically, not a great look, but whatever, then tried to say he was not being political, while being even more political. His PR department swooped in to Reddit and started posting straw man attacks. I don't trust their CEO at this point. If it were any other just email company, I'd be down with it, but their whole schtick is security and privacy, and apparently, they're led by an idiot.

If I'm taking my shit out of google, I'm not taking to some place that's positioned to be more of the same if I can help it, and they really appear to be more of the same.