I know the CEO dug himself a pretty deep hole recently.
I had been meaning to switch all the services I currently use over to proton - but his remarks gave me pause.
Is it still worth considering?
I don’t get why people hate companies based on one person instead of the company as a whole.
Yes. If you don’t agree with the CEO, keep in mind that he is not the owner, they moved to a nonprofit structure. Proton’s CEO is not the first one saying stupid things, the same happened with Mozilla, Brave, and perhaps many other reputable groups.
Proton products are good, IMHO the layout is OK.
It’s good, but not the only one. If you don’t feel comfortable with Proton, go to Mailbox.org, Posteo, Tuta. They are smaller, with less products on their portfolio, but reputable and as good as Proton.
I have to say I found this article insightful: “Does Proton really support Trump? A deeper analysis (and surprising findings)”
It inclines me to give him the benefit of the doubt. He clearly got stuck trying to make his point and at some point just stopped explaining. My feeling was that that was good decision because he stopped digging a deeper hole.
got stuck trying to make his point and at some point just stopped explaining.
Oof, super been there before
This is a great write up on an absolute storm in a teacup
This is a great site to see recommended products for use like proton and their alternatives.
While Proton does offer a lot of services that are useful, some people dont want to put all their eggs in one basket and use various products together.
At this point I’d take another look for alternatives to avoid throwing money at this particular CEO clown.
Yeah - mostly was the hope of this post to see what others you put up.
I had looked at tuta but I’m looking to be able to move my digital workspace (email, calendar, storage, docs, etc) over.
FWIW, tuta offers email, calendar and contacts. That’s a good part of it sorted out.
For storage, if you’re not up for self hosting Seafile or Nextcloud, look at https://filen.io/
Or, check out https://disroot.org/en which has email, storage, calendar and contacts.
AFAIK none of the above have office suites like you might expect coming from Google or Microsoft, but in my experience installing LibreOffice on your local machine solves that. Not everything needs to run in a browser.
Sorry, missed the Office part but both Cozy Cloud and Nextcloud support OnlyOffice. It’s 12€/month at Cozy Cloud though, and the service is France-centric… For now.
It seems murena has all in looking for with the exception of supporting custom domain names (unless you self host). The workspace aspect is important to me as I do a lot of collaborative work that is much easier with shared access to a spreadsheet.
murena
Sure, if at this point you’re still comfortable trusting the same entity with all your cloud services as well as your phone OS (which seems to just be a hardened LineageOS) — go right ahead.
For me personally this is the selling point, as I can fund their (open source) work rather than sending money to some company that does not contribute to open source. And since everything they offer is based on FOSS, migrating to another provider is easier than for closed source competition.
That said, I get your point. It is a corporation, and it is putting several eggs on one basket.
I’m wary of Signal for the same reason that — although both products are at least nominally open source — for all intents and purposes, their strategy is corporate. And this centralisation makes Murena as well as Signal single points of potential failure.
You do you, just consider that the minute somebody from the Murena/e Foundation board has a public meltdown you may have to find a new home for all the cloud things 🤷
Totally fair point there.
I do want to move to a more secure OS for my mobile device, and I’m just in the babysteps of understanding the wide world of the Linux ecosystem.
If that’s where you’re at, go for it. Every decision in this game is a tradeoff between convenience and privacy. We all need to start somewhere!
I’m old enough that I used to casually flash Android KitKat ROMs, and self hosted Nextcloud for a decade or so. I’ve seen platforms rise and fall 🤣 After a while it’s easy to become jaded.
Yeah, long term I do want to self host and I’ve now been doing reading on next cloud.
I used to flash to cyanogenos on a galaxy2 back in the day and I’m looking at different ROMs to try out now (suggestions welcome).
That being said, I’m new to Linux and haven’t done much home server stuff, but am motivated to learn more.
Technically, yes.
IF you’re worried about the CEO, go for Tuta.Politics aside, the OpenPGPjs library would be a viable alternative with a client side checksum program, but sure enough, the builds are reproducible.
Until then, this isn’t even technically true.
For example, you can’t import your emails with the POP3 so when your mailbox gets full you can’t even pay for one month and download them all while deleting them from the server.
It isn’t usable for free accounts and there was pre-4.0 a cult-like trend on the support subreddit to disclose your tier. I’m not aware of any moderation post, or note, asking users to stop this practice (u/ProtonMail was listed as a mod account).
Apart from the CEO, I’ve been a bit concerned with the number of outages recently with quite poor and inconsistent communication or updates - not especially long outages but made much more stressful. There’s something really off about the way they communicate things I’ve found. So that combined with the idiot CEO has made me start the process of moving away from Proton, I don’t trust them any more.
I think the best strategy is to spread thinly, don’t become reliant on any one provider.
Eh, ACAB: All CEOs Are Bastards. Tim Apple attended Trump’s inauguration.
If you are going to spend time and money migrating to another service, choosing one that seems to be headed in the wrong direction seems ill-adviced.
European-alternatives.eu seems like a good resource to find alternative services.
Personally I am waiting to see if Murena.com restores their nextcloud offering, as I am planning to move to /e/OS on my phone again and wouldn’t mind sending a little money their way. I’m not into hypersecurity though, if you have very particular needs others will have better insights. For me having it hosted in the EU is good enough.
They look pretty good; I can’t tell from their site of they offer custom domain support for email.
I think that there are several things to consider here:
- Is is usable software? Yes
- Is the company trustworthy? In my opinion not, a MAGA CEO is a security risk when you take a look at what is happening in the USA right now.
- Does it feel good to support a MAGA CEO? No
It’s worth it for sure. The product suite and convenience is really “the only” option for that price and while many seem to thing that proton is ready to sell out to American big tech, they won’t, simply because you can’t sell a non-profit organisation.
Tuta is decent email, but terrible UI.
OpenAI is a non-profit too…
I’m quite happy with the products. Not as happy with the company after the event you mentioned. I upgraded my plan not long before that happened (they had a pretty good deal going) so I will stay with them for now but I will need to consider what to do once the prepaid time is up.
I think Proton still offer a strong UX and great privacy, what are your main worries ?
maybe not important to some, but I was super-unpleasantly surprised a couple months ago because proton deleted my dormant account. my recovery account received a couple of warning emails (didn’t check that one in ages) and when I finally got around to it, gone.
so if you’re thinking of using it for anything long-term, know that you have to log in once in a while or it’s gone.
Pretty sure that’s just for the free tier accounts, but I could be wrong.
Not giving my business to a Trump supporter.
