Apparently we aren't Fash enough for @protonprivacy
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
@vmstan @protonprivacy "People on Mastodon keep being mean to our Fash CEO and his feelings are more important than our products"
Typical Tech Bros mentality, I guess the rot has set in at Proton, 'Swiss company' or not.
@vmstan @protonprivacy Oh, I see Proton are touting some kind of 'Bitcoin Wallet' now so we know which way this shithouse is going......very disappointing and not what the customers asked for, but fuck us right?
We're just a resource to exploit, American style!
@Lazarou @vmstan @protonprivacy Yeah, I had a Proton account for several years and was *this close* to doing a big migration of 10+ years of Gmail to them, when the following happened in about a 6 month period:
- cryptocurrency integration. Ok, meh, don't like that sort of thing, but there's probably non-trivial overlap between "better privacy/security" people and cryptocurrency people so ... I can live with it. For now. Continue working out Gmail migration.
- "AI" doohickeys. Optional, and fairly restrained, but a classic entry point for enshittification. Put planned Gmail migration on hold.
- CEO kissing up to Trump, or at least thinking he can actually trust anything Trump says or does to mean anything: Start actively looking elsewhere for private email.
- CEO putting a disguised "88" in user name: oh hell no, this really is not someone I can trust. I don't care if they might have been born in 1988, they sure AF weren't born in 191011000, and they *really, really* wanted something that looks like a disguised "HH" in their user name...
@dpnash @Lazarou @vmstan @protonprivacy
He's Taiwanese... and the CEO of a tech company... born in 1988.
You really think the binary 88's most logical explanation is that he's an Asian Immigrant/White Supremicist?
When you call everyone a Nazi it loses it's meaning. It's a heavy connotation that we should be using to describe Nazi's.
Of all the bad takes on this topic, this might be one of the worst possible.