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Proton Mail, known for its privacy-first email services, faced backlash after CEO Andy Yen praised the Republican Party and its antitrust stance.

The company initially posted and deleted a statement supporting Yen’s comments, later claiming an “internal miscommunication” and reiterating its political neutrality.

Critics question Proton’s impartiality, particularly as it cooperates with Swiss authorities on legal data requests.

Privacy advocates warn that political alignments could undermine trust, especially for Proton’s users—journalists and activists wary of government surveillance under administrations like Trump’s.

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[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 88 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Yep, I moved to tuta the day Andy decided to out himself as a MAGA dipshit. The only way I’d go back is if he resigns or gets forced out. At the absolute minimum Andy Yen has shown extremely poor judgement in claiming Republicans are the party concerned with people’s digital rights. That tells me he fundamentally does not know what he’s talking about, and I do not trust Proton under his leadership anymore.

As a side note, If anyone’s looking for a VPN alternative, I highly recommend Mullvad.

[–] gazoinksboe@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (5 children)

What are your thoughts on Tuta so far?

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If your goal is basic mail, with standard features, Tuta is great. The free option is more than enough for an anonymous email.

If you want to pay a little you can move your domain over and get a bunch more features.

If you appreciate a simple interface, Tuta will be perfect. They have apps for desktops and phones as well as web.

[–] gazoinksboe@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I appreciate the response!

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Been using the free tier of Tuta for years now with zero issues. The only thing is they delete your account after 6 months of not logging in (the timer resets every time you log in). Pretty sure that only applies to the free tier, though.

[–] gazoinksboe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Awesome. Thanks for the insight!

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It seems like a good alternative but I honestly haven’t used it enough over the last two weeks to feel comfortable recommending it to people yet. Sorry I can’t be more helpful, but there’s a free tier so there’s no downside in giving Tuta a shot for a bit.

[–] gazoinksboe@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Thank you for the response. I’ll probably give it a try since my needs are simple

[–] Senseless@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago

Been running my own domain from Tuta for about a year now. Had no issues so far.

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 6 points 2 days ago

Commenting so I can come back to this because hell if I'm going to remember to check it if I just save the comment.

Thank you for your assistance on the matter.

[–] Skabby73@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Same. It's little more difficult to say goodbye to simplelogin when my partner and I have like 150+ aliases and the subdomain use is SO convenient. Trying to eventually move the family to Addy.IO

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

I just signed up for the cheapest paid Addy plan and so far I'm very impressed, especially since it seems to be a one-man show. The docs are good which has been a huge help, and the user dashboard website is easy to grok.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

What are the political alignments of the Tuta CEO?

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He didn't say that though, he thinks Republicans are the party more likely to fight for "small tech" against big tech in the antitrust space. You can still consider this bad judgment but it's purely an opinion that he motivated from his point of view with a few data points.

Digital rights are an indirect benefit that may derive for breaking big tech monopolies, but nothing was mentioned.

Edit: for those downvoting, this is factual. Just go check the tweet and the reddit comments he did. If you want to be pissed at someone at least choose what that person did or said.