I know the CEO dug himself a pretty deep hole recently.

I had been meaning to switch all the services I currently use over to proton - but his remarks gave me pause.

Is it still worth considering?

  • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago
    1. Proton recently admitted they were impacted by Cloudflare outages cause they route a lot of their traffic through US servers using Cloudflare.
    2. Almost no one (like prob 0.1% of users) would ever have the time & knowledge to check for changes in JavaScript that might be different for them vs others, plus some of those would be routine updates, A/B testing, etc. If Proton wants to get your data all they have to do is change the JS sent to you or small portion of users, and it is very likely no one will ever notice.
    3. Many Proton services will get updates that are not pushed to the open source branch for several weeks.
    4. Proton disallows free accounts from using things like their Desktop Mail app without a paid account.
    5. Many Proton services are unnecessarily geared towards ecosystem lock-in, when the security can be achieved in other ways.

    Those are to name a few.