Proton is being run by a idiot. You should never in your life say this kind of shit when your brand is supposed to be privacy and security focused. Yes every single fucking line of code should be meticulously tested and reviewed and written. Faster deployment will not mean higher profit when youre supposed to be selling stability and security. What the fuck.

Guess I have to swap to tuta or something cause fuck this noise.

Oh man, I've tried not to judge this guy based on those badly worded tweets, but this behaviour to his own staff is fucking damning. I hope the company can cut him off like a diseased limb before their rep is completely destroyed.

FFS Proton, you were supposed to be the chosen one!

Now this is clearly not an easily dismissed dumb comment.

The Proton board needs to step in here and do something about Andy.

What I liked most about Proton is that while they move more slowly launching features than most people may like, when they do put out new stuff it's always solid and clearly well made. If he wants to lean even a little in the "move fast and break things" direction, he needs to be replaced.

Here's a uservoice thing to vote on against this: https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/945460-general-ideas/suggestions/51867423-andy-yen-steps-aside

Subscription is up for renewal in March. I use most of Proton's services every single day. VPN, authenticator, mail, docs, drive, all of it.

If Andy is still CEO come February, I'm not resubbing. Simple as that.

Beyond the AI shit, I don't want a cent of my money going into the pocket of that asshole. Who the fuck talks to the people who generate all of their value like that. Fuck Andy and the high horse he's on.

I truly, genuinely, don’t understand the rush to add features.

All the software I use has a baffling array of features I don’t need. I want someone to simplify most things I use, not junk them up with chat bots and chat bot-generated features no one asked for. ✨

I used to defend Proton and advertise it as a good alternative to Google. But I guess narcissistic psychopaths just run every fucking business in the world, it looks like.

Why can't anything be good?

And to think I was informed I was "over reacting" when, as a happy paying Proton user, bailed within a week upon Andy Yens GOP/trump comments some time back....

When they show you who they are, believe them.... The age old adage that never fails. Ever.

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Here’s an example of the absolute pearls of wisdom Andy is dropping over on Reddit

Weird how the IRL mail system is guaranteed by the government, and has a bunch of rules around it, but digital mail is just corporate cowboys doing whatever they want.

What a fucking jerk

I guess the implementation of Lumo, their AI assistent, should have been recognised as a warning light.

Great, so what I'm I switching to? Tuta? Running out of options tbh

Perception is more important than truth, the truth doesn’t matter if you don’t win on perception.

Not a great quote from Andy...

“This will be the last year that we hire engineers, and starting next year we hire what we used to call product managers, to build things with AI.”

Vibe coding by non-developers without security and code reviews is straight up crazy talk, especially for a company touting security and privacy.