Comment on Europe is ready to ditch US tech for private alternatives
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yeah, a proton blog… Not going to trust that much
Hi ! I’m switching away from US tech. I started using the proton solutions. Do you have something against this company ? It’s a genuine question.
I see a lot of options from European companies and being based in Switzerland and having encryption. Proton seemed to be a good way to start.
The Proton CEO Andy Yen tweeted support for Trump’s Department of Justice pick last year and a shitstorm suddenly appeared.
It was a pretty tone-deaf tweet, but it most certainly doesn’t mean that Proton or its CEO support the Trump regime.
Below is an article analyzing the entire episode, and before that a direct quote from the article if you want to get the basic idea with out reading the entire thing…
“However, being disillusioned with one party on one issue doesn’t mean that all of a sudden Andy Yen changed all of his stances and that now he’s actually pro-Republican or pro-MAGA. All of the evidence gathered suggests the exact opposite.”
Thank you for your answer!
Proton Mail is a good idea for the zero-knowledge encryption, but it’s a whole lot of vendor lock in as you can’t use standard clients (IMAP/STMP/CalDAV/CardDAV) for mail/calendar/contacts. Tuta isn’t any better in this regard. If you’re looking for ability to use standard open clients, probably mailbox.org would be a good option to check out.
They have really dragged out making a Linux Drive client. The protocol isn’t documented for 3rd party implementations, but they’re Windows/Mac desktop clients are open source so it’s conceivable to reverse engineer the protocol from those, but nobody has done it.
They’ve delivered a bunch of new apps to their suite like a crypto wallet and an AI agent, rather than addressing popular feature requests for existing software.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Proton > US companies
It’s not perfect, but no reason to recommend Google, Microsoft or Apple above it.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Just saying that Proton have a vested interest in desprestiging megatech.