Andy Yen’s values are incompatible with Proton’s mission. He advocates for poor security practices, supports fascists, and he verbally abuses his subordinates. As such, I can no longer in good conscience continue to financially support a company with such terrible leadership.
Unfortunately for me, my subscription just renewed last month on a multi year plan, but it does give me time to browse for and experiment with alternatives.
If you’re able, I encourage you to do the same and cite Andy Yen as the driving factor for your decision. We can’t let these tech bro fascists destroy what little semblance of privacy we have left.
They are good if you just use them for one of their services like VPN or their password manager. Because ya, you just end up trapped in their ecosystem instead of Big Tech.
I use IVPN and Bitwarden. I think using ndividual, specialised services is better overall.
That seems familiar…
Damn. It’s the Unix philosophy.