I feel like this is a good statement. The one that should have been written immediately after outrage began, and ideally before removing dozens if not hundreds of posts and comments covering this topic.

Some people say it stinks of AI. I don't know. Maybe? PR messages have always been like this, and they seem to be one of the types that chatbots got most of their writing patterns from.

Some people definitely overreacted. Others completely missed the point. Proton is far from a perfect company, and a case in favour of boycotting them could be made. But not because they accidentally sponsored one video of a far-right youtuber.

They're just not as private and secure as they pretend to be or to want to be. Pretty much all alternatives are leagues above. There appears to be no apparent reason why they're lagging behind. I suppose that's where the CIA honeypot allegations may come from.

In any case, if you really care about privacy and security - you probably aren't a Proton user, let alone customer. And if you are - I highly recommend trying alternatives that don't have a long history of working with law enforcement.