The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/30934764

The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.

  • Godort@lemm.eeEnglish
    42·
    4 days ago

    “We’re not liberal or conservative, we’re a secret third thing!(conservative)”

  • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
    431·
    4 days ago

    This is not an ad
    Enter email to receive emails

    I disagree, Mr Website.

  • DigDoug@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    4 days ago

    I’ve been looking in to degoogling and was considering Protonmail before this. Does anybody know of a good alternative? Espeically one that lets you have multiple email addresses?

    • tburkhol@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      4 days ago

      I bit the bullet this month & bought a domain so I can assign mail handling and change providers without changing my email address. Currently using https://purelymail.com/ because they’re $10/year for as many addresses & domains as you want “within reason.” It’s apparently just one guy with some AWS instances, but it was very straightforward to set up.

      • philnc@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        I was dumb enough to walk away from that approach about 10 years ago. Ugh. But you’ve convinced me. The annual cost of a domain is lunch money for a week. The freedom it provides in this scenario is well worth it.

      • lemmeBe@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        21·
        4 days ago

        The same applies to what I commented about Mxroute - Purelymail doesn’t cater to users who require end-to-end encryption, advanced privacy features, or those who need built-in security measures beyond standard email protocols, as it’s primarily focused on reliable email delivery and hosting rather than security-first communication.

        Tuta would be a viable alternative to Proton.

    • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      4 days ago

      If you only care about email (and calendar, I guess) Tuta is a pretty good choice. I’ve been using it for years and had only one problem very early on. Additional aliases are only available with the paid plan (€3 a month) however, same as Proton I believe.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        Yup.

        Tuta works well for me for the past year or so, so I recently switched to their annual plan. I used Proton for a couple years (paid plan) and preferred it, but they raised the price so I bailed. The €3 plan from Tuta is more than enough for me.

        • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          I’m still on a legacy plan (which still feels like a really good deal despite some small concessions compared to the new plans) but yeah, even with the new prices it’s definitely worth it.

          Also, while not strictly email focused but they have a blog with articles about various privacy related topics and news - it’s a pretty neat source of info, especially for those less knowledgeable about this stuff.

    • astronaut_sloth@mander.xyzEnglish
      81·
      4 days ago

      It’s not the most practical thing in the universe, but I have a small VPS that I host my email on for myself and a couple others (5 addresses in total). It’s a bit of a pain to set up, but once it’s working, it is really nice to have that kind of control.

      • Revv@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        There are dozens of us!

        I think email gets a bad rap for difficulty of hosting. So long as you get your DMARC, DKIM, RDNS, SPF, etc right, it’s reasonably forgiving. Need to take server down for maintenance? No worries- any mail that couldn’t be delivered will be resent in a few minutes/hours/days.

        Harder than hosting a simple website? Yes. Rocket surgery? No.

    • coherent_domain@infosec.pubEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      I have tuta, bitwarden, firefox relay, and libreoffice, seems to work decently. I am also considering getting a mullvald vpn, but not sure how well it works with torrenting, since they no longer support port-forward.

      • lemmeBe@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        4 days ago

        Using Mullvad, I stay connected to it 24/7. I’ve no problems with torrenting. It costs 5€/month. Maybe try it out to see if it’ll suit you as well.

    • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      I have pretty good experience with Tutanota an bitwarden as the most direct alternatives

      Tutanota apps lack a bit of polish but the UI looks reasonably nice and gets the job done. Bitwarden has treated me pretty well.

  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
    152·
    4 days ago

    “Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.”

    I don’t believe that they haven’t heard of Lina Khan.

    • bruhduh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      4 days ago

      Problem is, she was lobbying Sony so hard that her corruption was clearly seen by everyone, she fought tooth and nail so Microsoft wouldn’t buy call of duty, and was saying that microsoft gaming department will become a monopoly, and… You see a monopoly out there? Microsoft gaming department is a giant flop even with call of duty, of what monopoly she was telling then?

  • CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net
    English
    2·
    4 days ago

    This is what a kleptocratic oligarchy looks like folks. Suck up to the big man and he’ll let you fleece the joint.

    • lemmeBe@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      MXroute doesn’t cater to users who require end-to-end encryption, advanced privacy features, or those who need built-in security measures beyond standard email protocols, as it’s primarily focused on reliable email delivery and hosting rather than security-first communication.

      Tuta would be a viable alternative to Proton.

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
      11·
      4 days ago

      +1 to mxroute for anyone thinking about it.

      Been using it for a while (and worked with the guy who runs it) and it’s been pretty much perfect.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    612·
    4 days ago

    Check my comment history…

    I said this before:

    fucking stop putting all your eggs in one basket, folks

    Mix and match ftw…

    This is not a deal breaker for me but if they keep this up, I will stop using them. And it just one service, so I can easily do it, assholes.

    • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      137·
      4 days ago

      This is not a deal breaker for me

      Absolutely disgusting.

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        4 days ago

        I mean company backs pro-company party isn’t exactly surprising. You want to not shop at every company that supports Republicans? You’re going to have a hard time finding anywhere to shop in most of the US. Gotta stick to smaller companies, and if you get small enough you’ll get to mom and pop locations where personal votes are the comparison and they’ve voted Republican their entire lives.

        • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          there’s an entire continuum of political support, and you can choose to draw a line anywhere on it. I think it’s perfectly reasonable to draw that line at outright public endorsement, particularly now with Trump in office.

        • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
          13·
          4 days ago

          People are reactionaries by nature, they don’t think shit through until they get fucked enough to learn or they die, which ever comes first.