Yeah almost every top post on General Ideas was related to getting rid of the CEO, yesterday when I checked, almost all of them were gone 😅

Nov 3 snapshot of the General Ideas page, showing top post calling for Yen's departure: https://web.archive.org/web/20261103153135/https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/945460-general-ideas

Nov 7 snapshot of the post with 2457 votes: https://web.archive.org/web/20261107022144/https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/945460-general-ideas/suggestions/51869994-andy-yen-ceo-should-step-down-completely

Current link to the post bounces to the list with message "That idea has been deleted" https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/945460-general-ideas/suggestions/51869994-andy-yen-ceo-should-step-down-completely

These should all be referenced when writing to the Proton Foundation until a response is issued.

They have also been purging messages on the ProtonMail subreddit which they control. The community-controlled alternatives like ProtonPublic have been unaffected.

I deleted my Proton account back when this started and it seems like that was the right move. This company is fucked.

The fact Andy Yen has not resigned nor the board removed him, shows Proton can no longer be recommended in good faith, IMO. They have lost their way. Also find it logical that many of Protons top talent are pursuing alternative employment. Being called losers is high motivation for people who take pride in their skills.

This wasn't the first time Andy showed us who he is. Won't be the last.

That's about the worst way for them to respond.

I'm paid up for like 10 mo. But I disabled my renewals. And have started the move to Mailbox.

I believe in giving ppl and co's a chance to learn from mistakes. But you pile more mistakes on those mistakes? And censor customer feedback about them? Well ... you have competitors.

It's not the only one that was taken down. Some of them have just been tagged as "deleted". Others, perhaps those with more traction, have been disappeared completely.

I contributed my opinion to one of these posts and it has completely vanished without a trace.

The 'justification' theyre using is, "We run this forum to manage feature requests". The implication being that a stable, secure, trustworthy product is not a feature we can request.

Wow, there were a ton of posts asking for Andy Yen’s resignation and now there’s no trace of any of them. So much for transparency. What else are they sweeping under the rug?

Thanks for keeping tabs on this OP and posting an update.

I am genuinely surprised, although I shouldn't be.

I'll be sure to include this in my reasons when I cancel my account next week. Proton has been such a huge disappointment.

Really wish I didn’t have so many proton aliases now. Went to cancel just now and realized how many things I’d need to locate and swap over.

Switching to monthly billing and starting the process, I suppose. Really disappointing all around, but it’s not like the writing hasn’t been on the wall for a while.

I finshed moving to Tuta this weekend and cancelled my Proton subscription. I was sure to mention Andy Yens behavior and reactions like this as the reason.

I use mailbox.org instead. Works well. Forget proton.

Doesn't surprise me, given recent Proton news.

Alternatives time! I know I'm two weeks from my renewal, def need ALTs for my torrenting vpn and mailbox now. Any reccs from lemmy?

Man, I miss being employed!

I wish that I could afford to onboard to a new service and leave these guys behind. Problem is that I have one of the earlier tiers and it's far cheaper than anything else I'd be able to afford right now.

Stick with them purely out of necessity, I guess

I'm a Proton user too and I use all the available tools/services. It was a hard job to switch from Google to Proton, now it looks like I'm fcked again. So I don't know where I can go to receive the same kind of tools + where ethics still mean something.

I realized I got in on the ThunderMail beta and moved my email over. What a relief!

Do you remember how high it was? Last I checked a few days ago it was a little over 2k I think. I gave the benefit of the doubt about the Trump appointee comments but glad I took this last week to move things off Proton. Not sure about a VPN replacement and gonna pay a few months for any mail I didn't remember to move but otherwise I'm out and happy for it.

I had breifly heard that the CEO was pro-Trump when Trump was re-elected, so I had cancelled then and than searched out Canadian hosts that do not look through my mail. I was first with HostHero, because I could move my blog onto there servers they however charge an arm and a leg for unlimited emails with no wildcard option. I got tired of their angry support people when I was having issues so I went looking for a better solution and found easyDNS, who now hosts my domain, a VPS, and an email with a wildcard option.

So everyone supporting this petition is now cancelling their subscriptions, right?

Proton is Israel and the US' bitch. They aren't trustworthy. Taking blacklists at face value with no appeal options, and banning accounts handed to them by the US.

Proton enthusiasts almost always downvote me when I point this out. It's not my fault they are fucking stupid.

What the fuck did you think was going to happen lol

Welcome to the dictatorship of the Capital

So what is a good VPN alternative that also has decent performance? Where I live obfuscation methods are necessary and Proton's implementation of it seems to be the only reliable one where I am at. IVPN works but speeds are miserable unfortunately.

Wow, they suck :( and I just renewed my subscription like a month ago. Are there any viable privacy-focused alternatives? I want encryption, custom domains, and the ability to import my old emails.

sucks that i recently gave them the bitcoin i own as account credits