perception is more important than truth
That's all I need to read.
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Somehow Proton is making it even worse. Just when I thought it couldn't get worse.
Watching this CEO ripping down his own company & calling employees losers is wild stuff. But many saw it coming after his pro-gop remarks. He is who he is, and this was imminent with Andy remaining in charge after that.
“Leakers”
“This hurts me”
Obvious appeals to emotion, like all big tech manipulation.
At Proton, the engineering and product management roles are merging and we call this new discipline "Product Engineering". Proton also mostly hires product managers with engineering backgrounds. It means we stop hiring engineers who just code, and hire instead product engineers who also exercise product judgment that AI doesn’t have, not that we don’t hire engineers at all.
eugh
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Christ, who's doing their damage control? The church of Scientology??
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Proton is not rushing into AI without concern for safety, it is actually being done very carefully.
“stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.”
One of these is not like the other.
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They need to change CEO
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So where now, any suggestions?
I use proton for email and password management.
I'm happy to pay for a product so long as it isn't lining the pockets of abhorrent people.
Getting real tired of seemingly having to sit down and research who I'm give my money to, can't we just stop being hateful bastards for a while?
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Read through the post and the comments. Most of the comments are people pointing this out for what it is - a sanctioned attempt by Proton (from someone who appears to be a personal friend of Yen) at changing the narrative. It doesn't change my mind at all, and actually hardens me to the idea of moving.
A genuine post by a lower-level employee below was more interesting, but the core of it is: Yen goes or we go.
So they're openly admitting that they're using Reddit for astroturfing now? I didn't click the link because fuck reddit, but no doubt they have armies of shill accounts boosting their PR image. They probably even have reps inside PR to manage all of it, and might even be paying them for that privilege.
It's hilarious how both Reddit and Proton keep digging deeper into the holes they created for themselves.
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Proton's devs are hopefully better than their PR team. And at this rate both will need new jobs soon.
If they were given permission then they were given a script as well, pos CEO can't stop posing.
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Reddit is pointless now
Migrate your stuff, cancel your subscriptions, be completely ready to be banned from your account when you then get a credit card chargeback from your bank.
That's what I did, years ago when Andy Yen was praising fascists on social media.
Get that chargeback. Just be fully migrated away first because they WILL block your access to your account whem it goes through.
Wow. They really don't get their customer base
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ThE CeO pRaIsInG FaScIsTs DoEsNT AfFeCt tHe PrOducT
Just so we don't forget, Mullvad is 1.000x worse, so if you leave Proton, don't go there:
https://korben.info/en/mullvad-cofounder-funding-far-right.html
Yeah, already gave Mailbox.org a try via their free trial and it's great. So, now I'm not switching back even if they clean up their act. Thanks Proton! Lmao
If I had a VPN as good as Proton I'd switch to that and Tutamail in a heartbeat.
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Some reddit employees do the same to their pile of shit. It's easy to drink the coolaid from the inside, especially if you think it'll help you get ahead.
I don't use proton services because I thought the community told me not to use them because they give up your information or something a few years ago.
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