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Sustaining Proton’s mission over time | Proton (proton.me)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Proton's mission, funding sources, independence, and community are some of the reasons we're more resilient than other privacy-first companies.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Proton Photos as a simple archive sure. Drive can already do that.

But they won't be able to do any of the fancy AI driven features, as they would all require Proton to have direct access to the images. That goes against the whole idea of Proton.

Same problem with AI document features.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It would be cool if they offered a local client to do the AI processing but it's not hard to see a few problems with that. It would be pretty difficult to sustain.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I mean iOS already does that locally, but since Photos is Apple’s app, unlike other apps, it can run in the background all the time while charging and do the ML stuff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Actually it is possible to do it locally! A photo management service called Ente.io is already implementing it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I am not asking for a replacement to Google Drive, since that's clear, I'm asking for a replacement to Google Photos, which means I'm referring to the functionality that makes Google Photos a separate product to Google Drive (aka, the fancy AI features, automatic image compression, automatic sorting, albums, search, etc).

I don't know if it goes against Proton's philosophy, that's kind of besides the point. I'm just saying that for me to move from Google's suite, as I would like to, this would be a blocker for me with Proton. It's fine if Proton doesn't want to address that market, it just means I personally would find it difficult to make the switch (and likely wouldn't) even though I like a lot of what Proton is doing.