Proton Mail Says It’s “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party
theintercept.com
The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.

Summary

Proton Mail, known for its privacy-first email services, faced backlash after CEO Andy Yen praised the Republican Party and its antitrust stance.

The company initially posted and deleted a statement supporting Yen’s comments, later claiming an “internal miscommunication” and reiterating its political neutrality.

Critics question Proton’s impartiality, particularly as it cooperates with Swiss authorities on legal data requests.

Privacy advocates warn that political alignments could undermine trust, especially for Proton’s users—journalists and activists wary of government surveillance under administrations like Trump’s.

  • Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    I’ve been using Tuta since 2018 so I’ll give you some of my gripes:

    • The domain gets blocked by spam filters when I email other people. Not necessarily Tuta’s fault but annoying.
    • I get a ton of spam and phishing emails. A ton. Everyday I’m flagging like 4-5 of them.
    • Tuta just got labels. I can now label my emails but Proton had it for years (I also use Proton)
    • Tuta constantly have outages. I hope they improve their infrastructure.
    • I personally like Proton’s UI/UX better
    • I use the desktop client in both Windows and Linux. The Linux one is an Appimage that I have to run using --no-sandbox and I just don’t feel comfortable doing that. Proton has Proton Bridge which I can use to interface with Thunderbird which I prefer. Now whether it’s as secure or not I don’t know because security isn’t my specialty but I like using Thunderbird for my email client.

    Edit 1: fixed typo

    • dan@upvote.au
      2·
      1 day ago

      The domain gets blocked by spam filters when I email other people

      Do they not let you use your own domain name? I wouldn’t use an email provider that forces you to use their domain… It makes it a pain if you ever want to switch provider.

      • Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        They let you use your own domain now. But I’ve been using this provider since 2018. The article I linked to was written in 2022 so 4 years later. I was already established so I’ll have to go through a lot of services to change it. But if I change everything to my domain then what is preventing that domain from getting flagged? I don’t know enough about spam filters.

        • dan@upvote.au
          3·
          1 day ago

          But if I change everything to my domain then what is preventing that domain from getting flagged?

          You likely won’t ever be sending spam, phishing emails, viruses, etc from your own domain, so it has no reason to get flagged.

          It’s worth the pain to switch to your own domain, since you’ll likely never have to change your email address again. I’ve used several different email providers over the years, but if you email me at an email address I used 20 years ago, it’ll still get to me today.