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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.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Vpn: Mullvad

Email: Tuta / tutanota

Password manager: Bitwarden or 1password

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

DEFINITELY do not go 1password. They took a massive VC investment and it is only a matter of time before they find a way to monetize it. Ignoring the fact they absolutely destroyed the app.

Bitwarden (you can host yourself with vaultwarden) or KeepassXC.

[–] TrickDacy 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They took a massive VC investment and it is only a matter of time before they find a way to monetize it.

Can you explain this? I've been using the app for over 10 years and it's only gotten better. I haven't seen any evidence yet that it would suddenly change

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes, in 2021 they took a $100M investment for a password manager. There's no planet on which they can justify that valuation without doing things to significantly increase their revenue. https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/27/1password-raises-100m-at-a-2b-valuation/

If you've used the product for 10 years like you claim, then you should know very well the many ways in which they've gotten worse. A couple obvious ones off the top of my head because I dropped them like a bad habit after I saw that VC "investment":

  1. they killed off any ability to purchase a permanent license key and forced people into subscriptions.
  2. the app has only improved? How are those nested tags working for you? A feature they had 10 years ago that they broke and never brought back.
  3. Performance on windows has continually gotten worse with every release for the last 8 years.
[–] TrickDacy 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
  1. they killed off any ability to purchase a permanent license key and forced people into subscriptions.

For I think $75 I used an excellent password manager for literally like 7 years on multiple platforms. As a software engineer I know that wasn't a small effort to make that happen. I think I got my money's worth... and out of every digital service I pay for, I find password management most critical and worth paying for

  1. the app has only improved? How are those nested tags working for you? A feature they had 10 years ago that they broke and never brought back.

Yes it certainly has gotten better on every platform. I don't know anything about nested tags. I don't even use non nested tags. But sure the whole company sucks because they removed a feature you liked. Features that get less use get removed, that's how products work...How has it improved? Well, it's weird you ask it all aggro like that but yeah, the search, UI, watchtower, browser extensions, ease of adding a new device, cli tool, and many tiny details have improved over the years.

  1. Performance on windows has continually gotten worse with every release for the last 8 years.

Funny you say that, the app went from barely usable on windows (which I rarely use) to almost as good as Mac. Then right when I switched to Linux they released a very good client on that platform, which was something I didn't even expect.

I am not quite sure what the motivation is implying I'm lying about how long I've used software or my experience with it, but I'm not. Be mad I guess.

[–] TrickDacy -1 points 1 day ago

It might get worse eventually but I disagree with your condescending assertions that it already is. Later.

[–] Randelung 1 points 1 day ago

Just moved to Proxmox. Vaultwarden as an LXC from helper-scripts is so easy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Keepass is superior in my experience for passwords

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They asked as a "tech illiterate" so I answered what I'd answer a tech illiterate person.

Keepass is good, but it's not tech illiterate friendly.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Oh I must have missed that sorry. Then yes it's a bit more difficult for the tech illiterate until they've been using it for a while

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Thank you for respecting my literacy level! Lol

[–] eclipse 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From a UX perspective I disagree. 1password wins at UX hands down but Bitwarden is a very close second and IMO has better privacy guarantees.

Security is useless if it's too difficult. Despite liking Bitwarden I am a 1Password subscriber and happy with my choice.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Really? I really dislike the UI of one password. I have to use it for work and it's a pain.

Never tried bit Warden could be good who knows not me that's for sure.

I don't think keepass is to difficult as to make it useless. I think it really depends on the platform there are some amazing Android apps that will autofill directly from your keyboard no real work necessary it recognizes everything. Now if you're on Windows... Yeah things start to fall off the wagon