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Depending on who I am, is the Proton drama REALLY that bad? (reddthat.com)
submitted 21 hours ago by to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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DISCLAIMER!!!

I have NOT done any proer research in all of this. Every bit of info provided in this post is only what I stumbled across, so I am open to be corrected. Otherwise, take all of the info in this post with a grain of salt

This post is NOT written by AI

Usually I don't wanna talk about things like this, only to my personal connections, however this will affect my journey to Degoogling. I am, by no means, a new Degoogler, however I am new or completely unfamiliar to many aspects of it (like self-hosting). The community on Reddit has gone through a civil war on whether Proton has or has not been too evil as of lately

What happened?

(Not so) Recently, Proton's CEO has been using more and more AI code. From what I heard of, they aren't using humans to check the vibecoding. Also, I've heard that as times Proton has been exposed for not actaully providing the respect for privacy they claim to have

Why it matters

One aspect for Degoogling is trust. If there's an open-source app out there that suddenly adds telemetry even tho they claim to be provate, that breaks trust. The Proton community has not been to fond with AI slop, and the (not so) recent actions of Proton didn't help. This means Proton isn't tooooo trust-worthy in my opinion

"oH, bUt It'S jUsT rEdDiT bEiNg ReDdIt"

I know, but this is wayyyy more serious than the other types of drama. And besides, Twitter (X) had it wayyy worse from what I've heard of. I, myself, am not a fan of AI slop either, and I would at least check if the vibecoding is checked by actaul humans

Ok, but why?

Some people say it's not that bad, others say it is. I am open to any final corrections. If I am misunderstanding something or just blatantly wrong, tell me in the comments

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[–] 27 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

I think what ultimately soured me on Proton was how much it seems like they want to be the new Google by offering a handful of products that lock you in the more you adopt. I dropped them because it seemed like the money I paid for a couple of services, email and vpn, were being used to create new products, not improving the products they currently offered. Obviously I'm biased because if I wanted the newer products, like their storage or 2fa offerings, I'd think it'd be pretty cool. But you know what made degoogling such a pain? That all of my eggs were in the Google basket. And now Proton seems to want everyone to put all of their eggs in their basket. So idk, opinions about AI aside, it seems like Proton's strategy is to offer more and more products at a faster pace than they were going, which was already kind of eh. And that's all before you get into the whole security side of rolling out new features and products without them being thoroughly run through their paces.

Idk I'm rambling, but it just seems like it's that meme from SpongeBob where he's in the krabby patty making contest against King Trident and SpongeBob makes the one perfect krabby patty while King Trident made a shit ton and they all pale in comparison.

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