When called out on it, they then doubled down on this dogshit take: https://archive.ph/quYyb
Damn, not a great start to 2025 but I guess migrating away from Proton will be this month's project.
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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ivpn and Tutanota for email/calendar/contacts. And honestly, if you're comfortable with self hosting your own stuff, Nextcloud can manage your files, calendar, contacts and all kinds of other stuff.
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I can't catch a break.
EDIT: Nope. It's my fault. I was warned about Proton, and I didn't listen. I deserve this.
Warned by, how? A brief sentence with no citations would be enough for me.
There're plenty of posts on Lemmy about Proton being shady sometimes. No Linux apps, creating a crypto app, and now this.
Protonmail has a native linux app for both Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora/Red Hat.
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Goddammit, and I just signed up for a Duo account during their sale last year to try and de-google me and my partner's life.
Ugh, I guess it's still better than Google too, but I won't be migrating to their password manager or vpn. Now I have to fully anticipate leaving Proton ASAP as well. It's even more of a pita for my partner though, she's not a techie, part of the proton appeal was that the apps and integrations make switching convenient for her.
So fucking typical, I miss the "Don't be evil" days when engineers at least pretended to care about social issues and sometimes even actually did.
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Damn, and I just switched to proton because they have port forwarding and moderate NAT so that I can effectively seed torrents.