What are the options out there for email?

What the hell is going on? They are a privacy focused company. Why do they need to chase increased recurring annual revenue and ship features as fast as possible if they aren’t publicly traded? Andy Yen can spout his corporate jargon, saying “the company is underperforming” and “not reaching it’s recurring annual revenue goals”, but why does that matter if the company is healthy? Does he want to make the company more profitable to fill his own pockets with bonuses? I would think as CEO of Proton you would be somewhat committed to the cause, but this restructuring and AI push flies in the face of that. It must be a healthy dose of AI psychosis as well.

They can just be like Valve, do nothing while the competition shoots themselves in the foot and profit.

I was looking into Windscribe as an alternative to Proton VPN. I’ve heard good things from others and the fact they threatened to pull out of Canada if meta data collecting legislation goes through is a good sign. They allow port forwarding as well I believe. I haven’t had time to look too closely yet though.

I’m still looking for email providers.

You can’t determine what knowledge will be useful or valuable to someone in the future. Archaeologists have poured over receipts and shopping lists from ancient Egypt that were thrown away. It’s why the Internet Archive backs up all the random webpages they do. There’s no justification for mass destruction of books, especially since it’s being done to train broadly useless LLMs.

Of course they won’t be releasing these books later on. These companies want to hoard this text data so their competitors can’t access it. It would also be illegally distributing copyrighted work. Aside from destructive scanning being faster, the fact that a book is destroyed makes the digital copy “transformative” and therefore legal if it isn’t further copied or distributed. A judge ruled on this recently. I don’t mean to advocate for copyright enforcement, but that’s the reality here.

I think China has a national repository of AI training data that companies can access if they contribute to it as well. Doing the same thing in the West would at least blunt some of the harm the AI craze is causing, but that would have made too much sense.