Proton CEO Andy Yen gave a surprisingly sharp interview to the Swiss magazine “watson” (source in German: https://www.watson.ch/digital/wirtschaft/517198902-proton-schweiz-chef-andy-yen-zum-ausbau-der-staatlichen-ueberwachung). He warned that Proton might leave Switzerland if new surveillance laws are passed, which aligns with the company’s strong pro-privacy stance. So far, nothing unexpected.
However, Yen’s remarks about Swiss officials - describing them as lifelong bureaucrats, all lazy, and incompetent - came across as arrogant and out of place, almost like something you’d expect from a capitalism praising Trump supporter. he also was quoted in the interview, that the US works better (so they consider to move there?).
The interview left me speechless, and I’m certain I won’t be considering Proton for any of my future projects
I’m using Proton and considering divesting. What are good alternatives without US ties?
I don’t think there’s any all-in-one services like Proton. [email protected] has a few suggestions, https://european-alternatives.eu/ has others. You’ll likely have to piecemeal things if you had the full Proton suite.
I’m only using the email though so it is not a hard transition.
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I assume this is poster’s seelf deletion because otherwise more of the post would be gone including title and creator. is this a smear campaign?
I mean, things we have seen in the past does not inspire a lot of trust, but what is this?
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This is a thinly-veiled attempt at leveraging his past comments to make a normal boring interview seem like a firecracker. Disingenuous as fuck, from title to body.
The person Andy claimed to support in his past comments is someone named Gail Slater. You should look into her career. She’s very objective and fact-based.
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