I've decided to leave Proton after being a user since 2017. Today, I migrated all my services to my new domain, marking the end of my time with Proton. The recent political noise and price point were no longer justifiable for me. It was a good experience while it lasted. Thanks for the fishes 🐟 🐠
It's not just about a single issue, the company has changed significantly over the past 8 years. It has grown too large and now offers many products that I don't use. As a result, it no longer aligns with my needs, and I've decided to take more control, similar to when I stopped using Gmail. I'm not suggesting you should stop using it, I'm just making a personal choice that works for me.
I agree on the products thing. Bitcoin Wallet? WTF. While their staff says supporting drive sync on Linux is hard. (Yet seafile, and Google drive work on Linux)
Yes but that's not supported by Google. If your going to ding Proton Drive for not having a natove Linux client then you shouldn't tout Google Drive as a competitor who does, as they don't. You're giving Google Drive a free pass because of a third party. Google and Proton are the same on this feature and you should disparage both services equally as a result.
The official apps are all open source (GPL-3.0, https://github.com/ProtonDriveApps), so even though a formal API isn't documented it is derivable from the 4 available clients. This is how rclone added support for Proton Drive. So there isn't really anything stopping GNOME or KDE from supporting it.
Just a side note. Rclone is not the same as GNOME gdrive access. Rclone does a clone of the data to your local, GNOME gives you online access and you basically open from remote like using Seadrive client.
My point being Proton could easily add same online account with GNOME help and do the same.
Then it's not about that political crap. It's about it not being what you're looking for. And that's fine. But say that instead of the politics being the major reason you're leaving.
Edit :
And yes it has changed in 8 years.
It improved by providing more than a sinple VPN or a simple email service. But offering a whole suite of tools to compete with Google, which is a pretty fucking ambitious project.
They also changed to being owned by a non profit foundation with a clear mission to which they are legally tied to with a seriously competent team.
Andrew Yan made ONE comment about ONE decision Trump took. Sure it was a stupid comment. But PROTON isn't bad because of this. They're being run by a foundation with some pretty competent and knowledgeable people on the board of directors, if you ever bothered to look.
Some people seem to think that adding a license to their comments will prevent LLMs from using them for training data. It won’t actually help at all, and is born out of a fundamental misunderstanding of how copyright law works.
It got to be pretty popular for a while when Reddit was announcing that they’re selling content as LLM training data. But these days it has become clear that it’s just virtue signaling. Most of us just side-eye the commenters who do it, because it’s basically the Reddit equivalent of one of those “Facebook will begin using all of your data unless you post this status on your page” chain letters.
Ça sert a rien d'être nuancé ici, regardes mon historique de commentaires, les 2 avec -30 votes sont liés exactement au même sujet. Attends toi à la même chose 😁
Oui je sais. C'est con. Tout le monde Embarqué sur le bandwagon sans aucune pensée critique ni aucune nuance. C'est noir ou c'est blanc. Ça résume pas mal l'état des choses en ce moment.