Andy Yen’s values are incompatible with Proton’s mission. He advocates for poor security practices, supports fascists, and he verbally abuses his subordinates. As such, I can no longer in good conscience continue to financially support a company with such terrible leadership.
Unfortunately for me, my subscription just renewed last month on a multi year plan, but it does give me time to browse for and experiment with alternatives.
If you’re able, I encourage you to do the same and cite Andy Yen as the driving factor for your decision. We can’t let these tech bro fascists destroy what little semblance of privacy we have left.
Being a CEO is a terminal fucking disease nowadays.
He thinks he’s not rich enough, so he’s looking at rump, mush, and alt-man, and suck, and going, you know, those guys are really, really rich. What are they doing? Give me all of that. I’m not just going to follow their path; I’m going to trailblaze ahead of them, and I’m going to do it without the trained staff or unlimited funds. I’m just going to do it because it’s magic and my AI tells me I can do that.
I know that because it’s exactly what my CEO is doing.