I find this move concerning, and wish that the Founder had looked for a new CEO that shared his values rather than a Private Equity and Mergers Expert.
Furthermore, the change to the GRIT motto is worrying. Trust is useless without Transparency when it comes to code and security.
Proton pass has been fine for me. I don’t care that the one Proton guy said the one thing that time, I’m out of energy and it’s good enough.
Proton seems okay still at the moment, but with their growing in scope and success I imagine it’s only a matter of time
Another happy proton pass user here, i do care about what that one guy said but not enough to switch to another service. Not foss, but it’s definitely a good enough thing for me.
Yeah I think you said it better. If I boycotted every company that employs one person I disagree with I would be self hosting everything. Proton represents the best in privacy-focused non-Google/Microsoft hosted email and productivity services. There are numerous reasons that we should want to see them succeed if even just to take some market share from Google.
There’s kind of a difference between an employee and a CEO.
It’s just annoying on Android because it often struggles if there’s a “remember me” checkbox. And there aren’t separate fields for username and email.
Are they OSS?
What do they do differently than BW?
To me, they are just another vendor that seem very corpo
Googled it: Proton operates under a unique hybrid model. Its core services (such as Proton Mail and Proton VPN) are run by a for-profit Swiss corporation, Proton AG, but the primary voting shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation.
This structure was designed to permanently put people before profits and protect the company from hostile takeovers or venture capital control. While the foundation ensures the company never deviates from its privacy-first mission, Proton AG must remain profitable to be fully independent and self-sustaining without relying on subsidies.