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Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning
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this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2026
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Mailbox.org and tuta are being floated for email, ivpn or windscribe for VPN, bitwarden or keepass for passwords.
Beat of luck!
If I drop proton it will be to self host it all but the VPN, 2FA and a small off site cloud storage. Everything else is just a matter of convenience.
However, I'm giving them a year to figure it out. Thanks for the article, I will be watching him more closely now.
I dropped bitwarden and moved everything to Proton, wouldn't recommend going back. They have been in a bad trajectory as well.
That's also terrible news. What's going on with bitwarden now?
Changes to licensing, private equity getting involved. It's not as bad as this Proton exposé imho, but I still don't like the trajectory.
Private equity. Yeah, that does sound awful. I fully expect enshittification to follow promptly. Thanks for the heads up