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The only reason I haven't cancelled yet is because I moved my family, including my parents, onto a family plan with them, and that's going to be a lot of work to move everyone again.

But this shit fucking sucks. I recommended this product to my loved ones because it's supposed to be trustworthy and secure, and now I find out it's neither of those things.

If you're a Proton customer right now and not in a position to simply cancel your account, submit a support ticket laying out your concerns. I got a detailed and lengthy response back within a day (one that was clearly not a form letter either, it directly addressed all the points I raised). Flooding their support channels will make it clear that they are in some serious shit here.

Write to the Proton Foundation too. Demand that Yen be removed from the board and the company, and that serious changes be made to the leadership at Proton to ensure this never happens again.

Guilty.

And I made sure they knew precisely why.

How has the board not fired him over this shit show yet

I suspected my distrust of Proton would eventually prove right. Too bad.

God dammit... this totally validates my procrastination in signing up.

Checking privacytools.io, I see they have choices that aren't great alternatives to Proton's ecosystem. For example, NordVPN (not a great product) and Mullvad (didn't the owner contribute to a Swedish nazi party?)

So...is there a curated set of recommendations to replace all Proton products?

Is Andy Yen the asian version of Johnny Cash?

If anyone nowadays builds something they can't just bask in the success, the feel the need to spew ideologies all of a sudden.

Im pretty buggered here, there's no other VPN that does two things I need, per app routing and port forwarding. There's lots that do the former and a few that do the latter, Proton is the only one that does both.

Correct me if my information is out of date, please.

Yet another case of “you either die the hero, or you live long enough to become the villain”