DISCLAIMER!!!
I have NOT done any proer research in all of this. Every bit of info provided in this post is only what I stumbled across, so I am open to be corrected. Otherwise, take all of the info in this post with a grain of salt
This post is NOT written by AI
Usually I don't wanna talk about things like this, only to my personal connections, however this will affect my journey to Degoogling. I am, by no means, a new Degoogler, however I am new or completely unfamiliar to many aspects of it (like self-hosting). The community on Reddit has gone through a civil war on whether Proton has or has not been too evil as of lately
What happened?
(Not so) Recently, Proton's CEO has been using more and more AI code. From what I heard of, they aren't using humans to check the vibecoding. Also, I've heard that as times Proton has been exposed for not actaully providing the respect for privacy they claim to have
Why it matters
One aspect for Degoogling is trust. If there's an open-source app out there that suddenly adds telemetry even tho they claim to be provate, that breaks trust. The Proton community has not been to fond with AI slop, and the (not so) recent actions of Proton didn't help. This means Proton isn't tooooo trust-worthy in my opinion
"oH, bUt It'S jUsT rEdDiT bEiNg ReDdIt"
I know, but this is wayyyy more serious than the other types of drama. And besides, Twitter (X) had it wayyy worse from what I've heard of. I, myself, am not a fan of AI slop either, and I would at least check if the vibecoding is checked by actaul humans
Ok, but why?
Some people say it's not that bad, others say it is. I am open to any final corrections. If I am misunderstanding something or just blatantly wrong, tell me in the comments
https://cybernews.com/ai-news/proton-cancel-subscriptions/
I stopped using Proton after this, Proton mail faces backlash over claims of political neutrality amid ceos praise for republican party, I am Canadian and Trump had already started with the 51st state stuff so I was starting to move away from US companies, I needed something to replace Apple’s hide my email service and passwords with so I switched to Proton. So a few months after setting up with Proton I was in search for a Canadian host that could do the same thing with email; I settled with HostHero not realizing there where better options for lets say costing magnitudes less but I stuck with them for a few years until I had one two many angry support people answer the phone or email, my current email is hosted with easyDNS. EasyDNS has a wildcard email address so I can come up with a random email address on the fly no need to go into any app or webpage. I have a formula of (service name).(random Saskatchewan slang)(three random numbers)@reannlegge.ca, I can bounce emails I do not want from hosts, I can just auto delete things coming to certain addresses its great. So that is what I am doing for email privacy.
I was cool with using Apple’s keychain because it was not being synced with anything, I would just have to remember which device had which password and manually merge things. This got frustrating really fast, I had pi’s doing things around my home so I thought there must be a better way. I found Vaultwarden and I could use Bitwarden on my devices and have them synced together. I do not use a VPN for anything other than blocking trackers and ads, and my pihole setup does wonders with that. Vault/Bitwarden does most of my 2FA things.