Post by @jwcph@helvede.net
So here’s the thing. My entire life is on Proton: email, calendar, documents, VPN, all my passwords, all my ID, all my important data.
My annual subscription is up at the end of January.
If they don’t oust Andy Yen by then, I’m out. The question is where?
Infomaniak seems to offer most of what Proton does but they also use AI.
What other options are there? I’m seeing people suggesting email alternatives. But I need a whole lot more than that.
@clacksee Get out. Now. Don't wait & see. Remember, OpenAI fired Sam Altman - fat lot of good that did. Just getting rid of Yen won't change the culture he represents & if it wasn't inherent, we wouldn't have to ask them; he'd have been fired long ago.
Changing such a culture is something a business has to prove & that's not going to happen before your next payment.
@clacksee I have not. So far it has taken me two years to de-Google/Meta/etc. & I'm not there yet. What I'm talking about is making the decision for the process to begin. As you say, these services are deeply embedded in our lives & it's hard to untangle that mess - that makes it easy to slip into putting it off, just as long as we can find a way of telling ourselves that the water isn't hot enough yet for us to jump out of the pot. That if we wait, maybe it sorts itself out. But it won't.