I know Andy Yen is a dumbass. But frankly, IMO, Proton is still a better service than Google as far as cloud services go. Because Proton isn't actively helping Israel commit genocide with AI tools among others. They're not actively scanning all your emails and communications, photos, drive, everything on your mobile device, and your browser to feed an AI and to push your targeted ads.

I'd still pick Proton over Google.

And if you want to talk about other alternatives, sure there are other ones. But none are as integrated as what Proton offers, which gives then a big advantage. Also, there are allegations that Tutanote is linked to secret services. There was another privacy-focused company in Europe that was tied to donations to far-right organizations. So there's that to consider.

Andy is a moron. Yes he may fuck up Proton. No I'm not happy with what he's doing and I'm afraid he might break something. And YES I know he was in favour of some candidate that Trump had nominated for an antitrust department role. But he never made any donations to Trump or any other far-right organization as far as I know.

And honestly, it's becoming increasingly difficult to find a company or a software where AI wasn't involved in some fashion. Everyone is using it because everyone else is using it and no one wants to be left behind or at a disadvantage. I think it sucks, but that's the reality.

If there are better alternatives, that's fine. Go ahead and use them. Promote them. Tell your friends to switch to those services. But for me, I'm still going to stick with Proton for now. It fits my needs and the company is still far better than many of the big name services out there and even some of the smaller ones.