Proton ready to lower its pricing after landmark US ruling against Apple - here's what you need to know
Proton ready to lower its pricing after landmark US ruling against Apple - here's what you need to know
Proton? Isn't this the company that praised Trump and the fediverse lost its collective mind for a news-cycle?
Privacy focused company praising a political party jailing opposition and citizens without due process, ignoring the rule of law, and generally grabbing power to maintain complete control.
Speaking as someone who currently has a proton account, I was super disappointed. Thought I was leaving Google for the Rebellion, then I found out Proton was happy the Death Star's construction was underway and doesn't understand why the dissolution of the Galactic Senate is a bad thing. I'll be leaving when my subscription expires.
Same here. The only thing that could potentially have changed my mind was if they fired their ceo. But they didn't and haven't, something that tells me he probably has the same hold on the company as Trump has on US...
Wow. I’m a new Proton subscriber. This happened? Can you share a link or more details? Feeling disappointed, thought I found a good solution away from Google. Maybe I’ll look into Mozilla mail instead after my sub ends.
Before rejoicing, I'll wait to see the actual 'reduced' price. (saying that as an already paying customer)
Correct... This is just a PR stunt coming in on heels of a recently failed PR stunt...
Corpos doing corpo shit and trying to recover rep. I think they realized Andy fucked up big time bootlicker this white house.
It is similar issue with telse... Who the fuck does Telsa tubby thinks buys his cars? Mouth breathers who vote for trump?!
These "CEOs" are delulu
In the post the article refers to proton says they don't have to burden their iOS users with apple tax, I don't think they even meant prices outside of apple apps. So unless you are paying through the app store, don't expect any reduction.
one of the main reasons i switched to posteo was that it only costs 1 euro a month. i dont use email a whole lot so i couldnt really justify paying whatever proton were charging
Great development!
Andy being a Trump supporter is a bit more nuanced than claimed.
He did however come with a couple of bootlicking tweets in republicans and the Trump admin. The tweets were in regards of republicans being better at cracking down at big tech than democrats, and some in regards to choice of people.
I don't like it either, but I don't feel confident that he actually supports Trump
Sorry no, nazi supporters don't get to claim nuance
rolls eyes
That's great news! Although I doubt i will apply to me, since I'm grandfathered into the older, cheaper price already.
Kdriiiiiive
Fuck Proton completely
Don't care, a European Trump supporter is still a Trump supporter
I was strongly considering their plans by the time he tweeted that, made me do a 180 degrees turn and look other places for private mail services and cloud drive… After that event, he did write on the comments of a Reddit post that he’s not a Trump supporter and was distancing himself from right wing politics.
I made peace with it. Was he writing the truth or just trying to throw some water into the fire, idk. I have currently the unlimited plan and I’m happy, in the end of the day I want to support companies that are European and provide services like Proton and Tuta.
I don't think it's quite as simple as that. Normally anyone supporting him at all I stay away from their company. This is well worth a read on their stance (gives the case for and against proton supporting him): https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e
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Can we please stop parroting this “Trump supporter” nonsense?
Trump is an absolute piece of shit with nigh-zero redeeming qualities, but nothing that Andy stated in that tweet is false; The first Trump administration did begin the anti-trust proceedings against the Big Tech firms. The Democratic Party has largely been co-opted by corporate money and neo-liberalism.
It sucks to hear it coming from the Trump camp, because I hate to admit that they’re actually right about something, but we are better than the types of people who would rather stick their fingers in their ears and yell “La la la La…” because someone didn’t live up to some imaginary Internet-hive mind purity test.
It’s not just about the one dudes statement! It’s how the whole company handled the backlash, they doubled down and even pulled out of Mastodon and settled on fucking Reddit to post their official updates.
Bunch of fucking clowns.
Ya, nah this is some bullshit. You're actively defending Trump and Republicans even if you're pretending you don't like Trump or his policies.
Republicans are definitively not the party for "the little guys". That's demonstrably false, Republicans are consistently the party working against progress in most fields but especially worker protections, wealth inequality, and competitive regulated business. I agree Dems have big business backing as well, that they have some corrupt ties going against their constituents interests but the fact remains that applies to nearly all republicans. That only applies to some to most of Democrats. There is no Bernie Sanders in the Republicans, there is no AoC in the Republicans, hell there's barely anyone of color or who isn't a male - like Republicans are entirely private sector goons. To equate the Republican and Democrat partys is to fundamentally misunderstand the political climate of the US.
Lina Khan was the FTC chair appointed by Biden and she's been lauded as a fantastic agent for Anti-Trust and consumer protection reasons. Andrew Ferguson was appointed by Trump and although his track record doesn't seem to be the worst he's said he wants to ease scrutiny on mergers and acquisitions (so the opposite of Anti-Trust) while "continuing critical oversight over big tech". To me this is a clear demonstration that Republicans are in bed with big corporations and Democrats were working with what tools they had to break up big businesses. To me, this should be an obvious concept to anyone who says they pay attention to the political happenings of the US.
Big tech paid into Trump's campaign, famously, and there has been no indication that the billionaires behind Trump's reelection are doing worse off for themselves. The US is now further away from having laws similar to the EU's consumer protection laws and it is directly thanks to Republicans being corrupt. Are some Democrats corrupt in the same way? yes. Do I think voting Democrat will fix the country? No. But I'd argue day and night that if Democrats won every race in the country, worker wages would go up, standard of living would go up, crime would go down, wealth inequality would slow down or shrink, and the country would be in a better place because unlike the obstructionist Republicans enough Democrats care about their constituents that positive change would happen.
Andy did not state this is false, I emailed proton directly and they basically told me too bad and yeah he said it, it wasn't until the backlash they started trying to spin things.
sometimes its simply better to keep your thoughts to yourself though, especially in the position of a CEO of privacy-based platforms. andy broke rules one and two of fight club (privacy) and wasn't very private lol
c'mon, that's one guy from the board
and their products are solid