Video description explicitly mentions a partnership (not just affiliate link) + 2min 20s segment embedded in the video.

The person in question: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Lapierre

User Lumpy_Carpet9877 shares more info:

Vincent Lapierre’s Wikipedia page is quite explicit about his far-right positioning and includes numerous sources. He worked for several years for a far-right organization founded by Alain Soral, which promotes anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying, conspiracist, sexist, masculinist, transphobic, and homophobic ideas, and who fled to Russia to escape justice.

He is close to Dieudonné) (a Holocaust denier). He founded Le Média pour tous, a far-right website that particularly targets anti-fascists and defenders of Jewish rights. He has always been close to conspiracist circles

I’ll add that if you dare venture on his youtube channel (at the risk of ruining your suggestion algorithm like I did to provide the screenshot), you’ll see that most videos are typical far right content / talking points

Update: read Proton’s response below

You’re right to raise this, and we want to address it directly and provide you important context on how this happened.

Vincent Lapierre’s channel should never have been part of our affiliate and sponsorship program, because we intentionally avoid association with channels whose content could distract from our message and divide our community.

Proton operates globally, and while our services are available to everyone regardless of political views and our mission is consistent everywhere, our knowledge of every local media landscape is not. In this case, our team didn’t have enough context about the French space to make a well-informed decision, and that’s on us.

We also want to be straight about what a placement like this is and isn’t. An affiliate or sponsorship arrangement is a transactional placement for awareness, not an endorsement of a creator’s views. In the case of Vincent Lapierre, this was a single video sponsorship, not a partnership.

But that distinction doesn’t excuse what happened here. The responsibility to vet who we put our name next to is ours, and we didn’t meet it this time. We’re now reviewing our vetting process and our guidelines for our marketing agencies to ensure this doesn’t happen again.

If you see something like this again, tell us. We rely on your feedback and vigilance."

  • crimson_iris@piefed.social
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    15 hours ago

    I’m OOTL, what has Proton done in the past? Friends of mine routinely recommend Proton, so I’d be interested in hearing about their negative history.

      • artyom@piefed.social
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        13 hours ago

        And it turned out they were right and that one particular person was fired for refusing to comply with Trump admin BS.

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          10 hours ago

          That’s kind of nice to hear.

          You have some links handy by any chance? I don’t really follow US politics.

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            10 hours ago

            The decision is a victory for Bondi and a clutch of Donald Trump lobbyists who started to grow increasingly frustrated with Slater last summer, when she sought to block a $14bn merger between Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks, a cloud-computing and software company.

            Supporters of Slater have portrayed her as an antitrust purist deeply skeptical of Trump allies and lobbyists. But her skepticism of corporate mergers led critics to allege she was more interested in advancing her own agenda than the business-friendly stance of the administration.

            https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/12/us-antitrust-gail-slater-ousted-trump-administration

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        14 hours ago

        That ofc makes this company inpossible to support, I will self-host everything with 321 redundancy now, like any sane person does