Original post in /r/protonmail, where the CEO responds to the controversy:
https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i1zjgn/so_that_happened/
Excerpt from Yen's comment:
This is not going to be a popular opinion, but on the specific issue of antitrust, Democrats fell short. In 2022, we campaigned extensively in the US for anti-trust legislation. Two bills were ready, with bipartisan support. Chuck Schumer (who coincidently has two daughters working as big tech lobbyists) refused to bring the bills for a vote. In the aftermath of this failure, great people like former Democratic rep David Cicilline left congress, leaving few strong voices for antitrust left in the Democratic party. In the meantime, at a 2024 event covering antitrust remedies, out of all the invited senators, just a single one showed up - JD Vance.
Redditors:
Today /r/privacy, in a removed post, Redditors continue to seethe.
https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1id1lo5/proton_ceo_responds_to_backlash_after_his_post/
One particularly amusing comment chain where people are scarmbling to find a service that isn't in the hands of a chud:
https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1id1lo5/comment/m9vi9tu/?context=8
Sardines with more soyseethe:
https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1i2q6a9/comment/m7gq8v5/?context=8
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years ago i paid for a protonmail account, but didn't end up using it. i got back on it like three years later to pay to try it again and they wanted payment for the entire time that i hadn't been using it. apparently they don't turn off the account if you stop paying, they just make you pay to log back into it. i've never paid for email before or after that, so no idea if that's normal or what but i told the customer service guy no thank you
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I mean I assume in that time they've been running the service for you in your absence. For the average user, who isn't their target, they don't care. For their business partners though, that probably is a really useful feature worth paying for.
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