You are an intelligent person, as long as the service is not impacted, well you good
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zraziel@lemmy.world 2 days agoProton is still a great product… easy to switch away from Google, especially if you don’t have the time to self host or manage the complexity of 5 different services. I am aware of recent discussion, and have decided for myself that overreacting is not necessary, though that’s up to you :)
MITM0@lemmy.world 2 days ago
thisismyname@lemm.ee 2 days ago
“Who cares if I helped fund the Nazi party, I got good value out of it!”
I’m not saying Proton are Nazis. I’m not saying the CEO is a Nazi. However, when someone shows you their true colours, believe them. He has a positive view of Trump, a known racist, rapist, and con-man. Just because the product is good doesn’t mean it’s okay to pay for it when you know that money helps to pay a Trump fan.
This is the worldwide web, there are many alternatives.
MITM0@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Has the CEO explicitly mentioned he supports Nazis ?
I am already ahead of you & do have an alternative & it’s called DisRoot Somewhere along the line, you’ll have to behave rationally.
thisismyname@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Nazis don’t tend to explicitly state their support of Nazis. Even they know it’s taboo.
I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis.
Fascism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you…
It doesn’t walk in saying, "Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution."
- Michael Rosen
Eril@feddit.org 2 days ago
Nowadays I half suspect any tech CEO to have some questionable mindset (to say the least). So it seems more important to me, what the company actually does. I hope everyone complaining about Proton now also does not use Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, X, Apple products, and the list goes on. Their CEOs are definitely a lot worse.
Dragomus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Not just that, but frankly for a company like Proton it’s prudent to “cry along with the wolves, lest you get killed” …
As long as Proton’s products still stand on their own in the light of the Trump regime I don’t think it is useful at all to torch the company because of remarks of its ceo now that Trump is in office…
Ofcourse one can frown and be miffed but there are far worse companies out there that everyone uses, and people shrug off direct comments of anyone on the board of directors.