Privacy/encryption is a top priority
Large Gmail archive needs migrating over. If possible, I’d need to receive emails sent to my Gmail account (even if I can’t answer them from that Google email adress).
I recently switched from Gmail to Proton but I’m already looking to switch again.
I just want a mailbox that’s safe and nice. Much like Ente really. I tried Tuta because they are “friends” but I only saw negative feedback…
EDIT: I choose mailbox.org!
They don’t support Rump.
During his first term, Protons president said one specific thing Rump did isn’t automatically terrible for everyone, it may help Proton and other small online providers. And he was right at the time. That’s as close as anyone at Proton ever got to saying anything nice about Rump.
Proton realy is the best you’ll find out there. None of the others are very close yet.
This. Sooo many internet smoothbrains saw this as if Proton put on a MAGA hat and stormed the capital. They said one pragmatic thing, given the current circumstances at the time.
It’s so weird how any time someone mentions Signal, Proton, or other convenient privacy-focused alternatives to big tech someone on Lemmy will magically appear to say “No, don’t!”
I think some people want the idea of a service that’s absolutely perfect, and anything with any flaw is just as bad as the actual bad thing. The likes of Signal and Proton aren’t perfect, but they’re so much better than the big tech defaults that the only ones benefiting from people shitting on them are the corpos we’re trying to get away from!
More power to you if you can get all your friends to switch to the optimal self-hosted FOSS solution, but don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
That’s because on competing platforms like Reddit, this criticism is censored while the latest Proton company line (from their official accounts) is given preference.
If you want to see some real AstroTurf in action, check out the official Proton deferral to a completely anonymous and poorly written Medium post.
That’s untrue: they said far more. It’s really strange to me how Proton defenders never show you their official statement. Here is one (emphasis mine):
Sounds like woefully ignorant cope. They’re a terrorist death cult.
The rest is arguably correct, establishment Dems serve their donors more than their constituents. I don’t necessarily blame someone for seeing legislation he supported shot down by the establishment and then switching sides. It’s a baby-brain move, but that’s what most uneducated Americans do unfortunately.
Case in point, in terms of privacy, the Dems Project 2029 is out and their first policy…is Digital ID and age verification. Which is effectively lifted from Project 2025. KOSA has bipartisan support. Probably because Meta and others are dumping tons into lobbying both sides but 🤷♂️
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-surveillance/democrats-pick-up-the-global-digital-id-agenda-in-project-2029
I’d rank the Mullvad founder bankrolling a far right party, who is now saying they have enough funding to put up candidates, and who literally say they will walk over corpses to ethnically cleanse Sweden, a bit higher on the scale.
https://lemmy.zip/comment/27455991
The cope is the most important part. They aren’t criticizing Democrats in a vacuum, they’re doing it to say JD Vance, the Trump administration, and (in the post that sparked this) Donald Trump and his corporate captured Republican judge are all good.
All that about the dems being captured by corporate interests is true. Had been true for a few decades since Clinton won.
None of it equates to supporting Rump.
I put the JD Vance praise in bold so you could see it.
Vance was the only one to show up. That’s all they said. That’s what happened. Stating what factually happened isn’t suport.
In the increasingly slim chance you aren’t just pretending to be ignorant, the official Proton statement makes it clear that all Republicans are the better option, so yes this is praise of Vance.
At the time the Republicans were making some noise about holding big tech accountable. Proton thought they may have ment it. But then big tech made the right donations and all that fell apart.
Nothing anyone at Proton has ever said, has indicated general support for Republicans or Rump.
Yes they have. In fact if you read the other section I bolded for you:
As a bonus, here is Andy Yen praising Donald Trump for appointing a corporate-captured Republican judge
And at the time, several years ago, that was true.
Again, nothing any of them have said, in any way, is any kind of general endorsement of Republicans or Rump.