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The Proton founder is Pro MAGA that should be the end of it for most of you. I'm never going to leave Njalla for my VPN needs
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2026
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While I agree that the response is heavily AI generated, I have to disagree that he's pro-Maga. He reached out to both democrats and republicans to talk about the importance of privacy and the democrats turned him down (or entirely ignored him) while the republicans met with him.
He then went on Xitter to shame the Dems and said that the Republicans seemed to be the party caring about privacy.
He's definitely a dumbass for trying to play it that way, but he did not come out in support of Maga.
unfortunately, a lot of us need more than vpn and proton has a full suite.
He was not pro maga just because he could gain an audience with GOP members but not dems on a lobbying trip. There has never been a single shred of evidence showing he is pro maga, and at this point I'm just going to assume it's a smear campaign against a Google competitor.
Change my mind. I dare anyone to show the proof.
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They screwed up, admitted it, apologized, don't see why people are calling for blood anymore. People are allowed to make mistakes, they owned it and they cut ties with the guy.
*ChatGPT apologized
At least originality.ai seems to think that this is written by a human.
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They keep making right wing mistakes though. I think that points to something.
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"You are right to raise this and we want to address this directly"
Isnt that how Claude Sonnet or Opus writes?
It's PR language, doesn't matter if this is written by a human or AI. Message is what it is.
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We shouldnt have sponsored a fascist because we son't want to work with ANYONE political
lol okayyyyyy, whatever bro
That's why I'm leaving proton and it's community. Lots of drama and political shit that I don't want to know, not to mention the whole thing where proton from just an email provider, now sells VPN and other services l.
As I mentioned more in detail in other post, Proton is not the pro-MAGA many had misinterpreted. It is just sloppy at the marketing campaign and its leader makes statements that can easily misunderstood too.
That said, Proton has decided to aim for the masses, which has proven to be a winning business formula here. However, in that quest, it's natural that concerns from top-tier privacy users (Linux users, those wanting non-Google push notifications, too-many-eggs-in-a-basket, etc.) get relegated in favor of the bulk of their primary target customers, the regular Joe who simply wants to move away from email and web traffic scraping. We should all applaud that decision, but we also recognize the limitations and big risks of having a single company holding some 80% of this privacy market, both for us and even for Proton. It would be better to foster a healthy, diverse, and more equitable privacy ecosystem.
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I am out of the loop it seems. What happened ?
Proton sponsored afar-right fascist influencer, then issued apologies and ended the sponsorship after they got found out.
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"you're right to raise this" really triggers my AI detection Spidey senses. Sounds like Claude, specifically.
“and thats on us”
AI slop from top to bottom
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