A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 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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[–] eodur@piefed.social 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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[+] limpatzk@bookwyr.me 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 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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[–] LytiaNP@lemmy.today 1 point 9 months ago

Also to note, Proton AG is technically for-profit. They are majority owned by Proton, which is a non-profit, but the company that hosts everything is technically for-profit.