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Sort of, but it isn’t in my view very well deserved. There is certainly quite a bit of FUD here in the fediverse, but sometimes it feels manufactured.
The CEO has made, and partially walked back, some statements favoring right wing groups, but it was mostly antitrust stuff, so I think it is mostly rich person doing rich person things.
But they claim to be politically neutral, and they are a Swiss company which already puts it in a tier above anything hosted in many other western countries.
The services themselves are technically very well done, and the applications for using them are also very good. They have a new drive cli which is good. The password manager is great. VPN is good too. The mail bridge they provide is also very good if you want to use third party mail apps but with the benefit of their encryption.
There are other services that compete strongly on each of those and more, but I don’t think any do when considering the full suite.
yeah i was looking for a vpn inside the eu/efta and couldn't find a better alternative so i went with proton and have been very satisfied so far
bought the 2 year package, no regrets. at least not yet. if they sponsor another far right influencer i might have to switch to something else after my subscription ends
for e-mail im gonna do something different tho, dont wanna have all my eggs in one basket. but it's completely fine if some prefer that for the convenience :)
edit: e-mail, not mail
gotcha thanks!!