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Sustaining Proton’s mission over time | Proton (proton.me)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Proton's mission, funding sources, independence, and community are some of the reasons we're more resilient than other privacy-first companies.

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm happy to support these guys, and I feel like I pay a fair price for the services I get.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What I love about them is that recently they had more people buying their password manager, than they planned for. This reduced the cost per user for them.

Instead of pocketing all of the profit gained from it, they sent out an email to all of their paid users, to let them know that they can now update their subscription for a discount.

[–] daed 82 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's fuckin weird to see a company make a decision based on the long term retention of their customers rather than short term profits... I like these guys.

[–] IchNichtenLichten 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Deenshittification.

[–] RGB3x3 22 points 10 months ago

Engoodification

[–] plz1 21 points 10 months ago

That's so surreal in this day & age. I can't think of any other example where that happened. I use Bitwarden because I don't want all my eggs in one basket, even for Proton who I trust. But good on them for doing a solid for their customers instead of bowing to the forces of pure capitalism.