The CEO of Proton is pro-Trump.
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/
fuck
Seeing Proton on the list so many times got me thinking. We let Google take over all of our services, and then they got worse and worse. Is there some system in place to stop Proton enshittifying once they’ve taken over the internet? Especially in light of the CEO apparently being an asswad.
This doesn’t change the CEO using an official proton account to praise trump and call him the GOP the party of the little guy. I don’t care about their real ideological opinion, but rather whether they’re going to gargle fascist balls and betray privacy. Trust is a fragile thing
Edit:a word
lol who give a shit? Stop bringing politics into everything
For the love of all gods, stop recommending Proton, it’s run by a fascist Trump-loving cryptoscammer that hates open standards even more than Silicon Valley tech-bros. You might as well use American companies at that point.
That’s strong accusations and the first I’m hearing of that. Do you have a source? Because the only controversy I know of is that their CEO praised Trump’s pick for attorney general for the antitrust division a bit too enthusiastically. Which is not a stellar look but that does not make him a „fascist Trump-loving cryptoscammer that hates open standards.“
The only place people are throwing up the whole Proton / Trump controversy is Reddit and Lemmy. Lemmy is particularly worse. As bad as the endless scrolling of Linux praise and Windows bashing.
There’s an article somewhere where someone did a deep dive and ultimately concluded that the Protons CEO views do not coincide with that of Trump or his party.
There’s an article somewhere where someone did a deep dive and ultimately concluded that the Protons CEO views do not coincide with that of Trump or his party.
Would you have that link by any chance? That would be neat to use as a counter argument.
he’s not a hitler-loving Nazi he just really likes that Goebbels dude.
Idk, it sounded more like „Man, that Hitler dude sure put the right guy in charge of the Autobahn network“.
Unless that Attorney General is indeed comparable to Goebbels. I dunno, I don’t follow US politics that closely. Politics at home are already depressing enough.
Idk, it sounded more like „Man, that Hitler dude sure put the right guy in charge of the Autobahn network“.
Unless that Attorney General is indeed comparable to Goebbels. I dunno, I don’t follow US politics that closely. Politics at home are already depressing enough.
Edit: Also that only addresses his alleged fascism, but none of your claims about him being a cryptoscammer or against open standards.
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This community has threads answering your question
Skimming through it I have only seen discussions about his praise of the trump administrations pick for attorney general for antitrust (which I already knew about). Haven’t seen anything about crypto scams or dislike of open standards.
For the love of all gods
That’s something a Skyrim NPC would say.
AFAIK HERE WeGo is an European maps app too.
That doesn’t use osm. Imo, it is just not as good
Missing traffic updates for smaller countries is an issue with osm
OsmAnd is a great map alternative as well, works great for any type of navigation
(there’s the open source free full version on F-Droid)
These lists are consistently bad. To the extent I’m beginning to think it’s intentional so people don’t like the alternatives and go back to the worst.
Make a better one
Thats actually good idea, might do
Better yet, make an app
Lol, I barely know how to design a post, let alone an app😆
Same! Come on computer geniuses, make us poor plebs an app, please and thank you.
It does feel daunting to start, but the community is there to help 😊
TIL that Bitwarden is an US company. I love the product but thats a risk
It’s also self-hostable and FOSS.
Is there a concern there is going to be a tech trade war?
You never know
What’s the risk? That they would shut down operations randomly in the EU?
at least you can self-host
Switched to proton pass free from paid bitwarden and gotta say, its just better on so many fronts.
Same
I pay for SimpleLogin and as a result get Proton Pass. I began moving to it from Bitwarden but aborted when I saw it can’t manage app passwords. Basically on Android (maybe iOS too) I can sign into apps using Bitwarden.
Proton can log in to android apps? I’ve got it set as my password manager and it works just like bitwarden. Only reddit hasn’t worked for some reason.
Really? I’ll try again but when I imported from Bitwarden it stripped out all app related content.
My export/import had all data except my identities and cards. So perhaps check how your exporting/importing? I did not use automated ways I just did it manually by exporting and importing a file
Just reporting back to say that yes indeed Proton Pass can fill app credentials in too. I have no idea why it didn’t work when I tried it last month. I was trying it out as my Bitwarden subscription was due for renewal and I was seeing if it was worth migrating to Proton Pass. Sadly my renewal has come and gone now so will now be something I need to revisit next year.
Anyway, thank you for confirming that I was indeed incorrect.
I switched from paid Proton Pass to free selfhosted Bitwarden and it’s so much better (ok I combined it with a lite anonaddy account).
Whether an app/service is EU based should not always be a deciding factor when determining if it should be recommended.
Signal is a great example of that. It is based in the US, but surpasses other mobile messaging apps in terms of privacy and convenience. It is a US-based app you should recommend.
So let’s be nuanced and take into account that EU-based products or services may not always be the best choice, even with regards to empowering European citizens. In many cases, you will find that European states seek to disempower their citizens through the use of surveillance. So it is pretty ironic when a team of Americans are empowering you while your own government seeks to take that power away (Chat Control and the likes) to further subjugate you.
Most of Session’s developers are Australian.
They moved their product to Switzerland because the Australian government started raiding them.
They seem to be a cool bunch but for some reason don’t want to implement some wanted privacy features.
Ugh. I JUST started using it.
Well moving to Switzerland is a good move. But that doesn’t mean the developers in Australia are completely safe from their government.
Them removing Perfect Forward Secrecy is detailed below. I don’t really have an opinion on it, but many people say it’s not a good choice.
- https://getsession.org/blog/a-response-to-recent-claims-about-sessions-security-architecture
- https://getsession.org/session-protocol-technical-information
I still have hope for the project, although I wish it got completely decoupled from the crypto aspect. They think that people won’t support the network if there was no incentive, and that they themselves will not earn money from donations and other stuff. In reality the incentive makes it so you’d have to stake €700 (last time I checked on previous network) to add a node to the network, making it very hard to help out with cheap servers. And them having the crypto aspect does not make me want to donate.
The built-in onion network and anti KYC is pretty amazing. They also have offline message queues which many P2P projects lack.
My hopes are still up.
Check simplex, I think its much better
I like so much about it in concept but Oxen feels like a grift, like it’s trying to be Onion Routing but by Crypto bros.
Maybe they’ll reconsider and switch to a non crypto bro onion network. Or some people take it up and remove it.
And I read there are some issues with their crypto implementation
That’s how i came and register from reddit just like 5 mins ago and this is my first ever comment.
Mapy.cz is an absolute must for hiking in Czechia and Slovakia, Google maps isn’t even close. Not sure how the situation is in other countries though
Curently trying it as my daily driver and it does pretty good job too
Mapy is great for hiking outside of Czechia and Slovakia, I use it a lot in the Netherlands! I had to stop using the navigation tough because I ran into some issues with it.
Outside of Czechia mapy just uses openstreetmap data, that is why it works so well for hiking
I can vouch for the Kdrive/Kmail from infomaniak. Great service for the price, the switch was almost seamless (with gmail forwarding to my @ik.me mail)
It took me a while to understand why some apps/services had a + on top
Wtf don’t recommend BeReal! They’ve been bought by Voodoo, a shady company trying everything they can to bypass Android/iOS privacy protection
I thought money to Lemmy (not your instance but the founders) went to a US organisation?
It’s still federated so I guess it doesn’t really matter much, but still…
They get funds from the EU, so I don’t think it’s a US organization
The two main Lemmy devs are European. One of the feddit.uk Admins is also now part of the team.
Magic Earth, unlike Google Maps, not only offers you to show the known speed limits. It shows you radar traps.
