Proton CEO Andy Yen projects a calm persona and rails against Big Tech and critiques AI. Internally, he is pushing engineers to build Proton with AI, even when they have security concerns.
I used to defend Proton and advertise it as a good alternative to Google. But I guess narcissistic psychopaths just run every fucking business in the world, it looks like.
They also have been a bit shady, many of the app settings (security and privacy) have telemetry turned on. And as a default the pass app has icon and provider lookups turned on. This means when you use your password app it checks with tons of servers, like google, Paypal, zoom, etc to go and find if you have icons to fetch or passwords to fill. The google one was grabbing IP address. So for a privacy app this is really doing a beaconing type thing where a malicious govt admin could be tracking server logs to see when you connect, and what accounts you have (since it reaches out based on your stored password websites).
This type of stuff should be off by default, for people like journalists that might have to be totally anonymous online.
I used to defend Proton and advertise it as a good alternative to Google. But I guess narcissistic psychopaths just run every fucking business in the world, it looks like.
They also have been a bit shady, many of the app settings (security and privacy) have telemetry turned on. And as a default the pass app has icon and provider lookups turned on. This means when you use your password app it checks with tons of servers, like google, Paypal, zoom, etc to go and find if you have icons to fetch or passwords to fill. The google one was grabbing IP address. So for a privacy app this is really doing a beaconing type thing where a malicious govt admin could be tracking server logs to see when you connect, and what accounts you have (since it reaches out based on your stored password websites).
This type of stuff should be off by default, for people like journalists that might have to be totally anonymous online.
Proton is just becoming the next google
Big fucking sigh
Tuta is still keeping its head on straight, it seems.
Hopefully they can keep developing their apps to maturity after 10 years. 😅