My first reaction was it looks AI generated, but TBH I've seen plenty of corporate CYA pieces like this before GAI existed, so it could just be that's where AI got it from...
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Responded to what
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It's a good PR statement.
But first the trump thing, and now this. They should have been WAY more cautious about this kind of thing.
But they weren't. For some reason. Maybe it's standard corporate neglect. Maybe it's that they're trying to support the far right without looking like it. Maybe 100 other things.
I'm not inclined to give Andy Yen a pass because that was egregious, but this seems like they may have allowed people to request sponsorship without enough vetting.
It's still two strikes.
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I believe them when they say this was an error of vetting because they'd have to be naive to think this wouldn't be discovered and that a lot of their customers would have an issue with it. But that in itself is troubling. Proton are not some small-fry company with staff numbers in the single digits. Something like this speaks to their lack of planning, organisation and error-checking which are very bad traits for a privacy-centered set of software developers to have.
I've always been slightly suspicious of Proton without really knowing why but this and the previous Trump thing have made those suspicions more hardened. Everyone makes mistakes but to not even do basic checking and to lack the organisation and judgement to implement it is not something that inspires trust in the software they develop.
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I'm out of the loop here, what's this drama about?
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"You’re right to raise this..."
"... and that's on us."
Has the same kind of simpering tone you'd get out of an LLM.
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This reads like chatgpt.
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If you see something like this again, tell us. We rely on your feedback and vigilance.
Or ... you could ensure something like this doesn't happen again yourselves. It's not our job to police your social media purchases.
Plus, it seems like you were notified and got feedback - just that it happened way more publicly than you wanted. Which again, isn't our problem to deal with.
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Whenever you see something like this, a wizard did it.
Too late
Too many fucking strikes with too many "oopsie whoopsy we did a fucky wucky"
Proton supports hard right fascists. End of story. No more. Done. Finished. Finito.
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