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[–] 12 points 9 months ago (7 children)

As another person said, why put all or a lot of your eggs in one basket (Proton)? To me the value in switching away from big tech is that I can deversify my services.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago* (5 children)

    Inevitably Proton will enshittify. If you, dear reader that scrolled past this comment, disagree, then i think you dont belong here.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Agreed. I use their mail and VPN, but I use a personal domain, so I could switch email with little trouble and Mullvad VPN can't really be beat.

    I don't really need anything else Proton offers because I've got NextCloud.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    OpenAI was also non-profit and sure as shit wasn't living up to its name of being open in any way. Then it became for-profit in late 2025 because it could, and also money.

    Do you think there's something snowflake-level special preventing Proton from doing the same fucking thing? It's a corporation trying to make money; non-profit may be used to grift popularity or grassroots support.

    If Proton is special and impossible to follow a similar trajectory after enough people use/are locked into their ecosystem, please share with us what your logic would be that would protect us from this. (Hint: you can't)

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Because its not all eggs. As you can see, they used a ton of google services, but only substituted a few with Proton. Ex. Google keep -> Joplin, Google Maps -> Magic maps. So saying that they put everything into proton is not true. It takes time to be fully independent.

    I am very similar to OP. Proton right now gives good services, and is a good safety net right now for me.

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