Proton mail sponsors far right French YouTuber, censors criticism on their subreddit

Ironically I am happier with cock.li than proton

(context: owned by (at least at one point?) 4chan user)

The corporation sponsors the pro capitalist ideologue? I’m shocked.

ELI5 if proton is for everyone, why does it matter who they do sponsorships with? Wouldn’t being very eclectic about it be a kind of discrimination or at least following a defined political view? I can’t make, and don’t want to, know the difference between right and left in politic. People tried explaining it to me but I don’t care.

Thanks for the heads up. Haven’t really used Proton, but I have a few accounts in case of… But now they will be deleted.

Fuck.
And to think people on Lemmy advised me to switch to it.
If I’d done my research I could’ve seen it coming.

Yen’s personal u/ on Reddit being “andy1011000,” which is binary for “andy88”.

It was considered paranoid to read something into that.
But then what would the reason be for usinfg this binary?
While they already used 88 as an obfuscation for HH(heil Hitler)
This is a similar step obfuscating the 88.
And there are precedents of it being used by fascist scum

They also sponsor a far-right influencer in Brazil.

This guy is literally a grandson of a dictator of the military dictatorship. He was also one of the articulators of the 2023 coup attempt, pressing the military to join

very cool proton

edit: giving more context in case someone wants to post this in their subreddit (I won’t): his name is Paulo Figueiredo and he still have a proton vpn sponsor link in every video on youtube.

Three things on Proton:

1. Proton mail has been in a rampage with sponsor YouTube channels and, in my opinion, that is a mistake. I would have kept it an organic growth, but that is me… a nobody, and Proton has become far more successful than no other email provider in the privacy world.

2. Considering even that, Proton is not vetting who is sponsoring. This is a fiasco. For instance they try to sponsor the channel “The hated one” that never takes any sponsors and even constantly criticizes channels that does it. That is a mayor blunder for Proton, there is no scrutiny at all with their marketing deployment. By the way, we learned that that youtubers get a juicy amount by Proton in these sponsorships (I think was $70 per subscription).

3. Proton, for years, has been aiming for the masses, not the most serious in privacy (for instance, androidś Proton email still uses Google push services). That is not bad per se, I still recommend Proton to many. But those with a more ideological approach to privacy or those requiring top notch on it, should be aiming for other service providers.

Using Proton always seemed like a bad idea. People come to Proton in order to deGoogle or de-big-tech but then lock themselves into their ecosystem, defeating the entire purpose.
Not mention how scummy their PR-Team, their CEO and their Business Practices are.
So many Proton sponsered content creators spread lies about how Proton Mail is supposedly E2E encrypted or how Proton VPN is supposedly a privacy and security tool.
Time and time again they have lied about how much data they have and how much they have disclosed to investigating agencies.

The only way I could ever undestand someone using Proton Mail would be to use their service but behind your own domain, such that migrating away stays easy.

I was afraid Proton would eventually go down the far right route… and it seems like my fears came true

ceo praised trump then deleted the tweet. it should have been the first warning sign he is a fascist.

Such companies “sponsor” everyone. It’s cheaper than normal advertisements.

Is there an article about this?

man, is it just time for me to quit technology altogether?