All you have to do as a CEO is shut the fuck up and let your product do the talking. The less I hear about your shit views the more likely I am to stay with your product.
Everyone go vote at their feedback website. There are several posts in the General Suggestions section that suggest Andy Yen step down. Mark them as critical.
Is Andy Yen the asian version of Johnny Cash?
Fuck, that got me.
Shit that made me laugh out loud and my fiance is asleep in the next room
No he’s the Asian version of Eddie Money
When someone shows you who they really are, believe them the first time. And sadly, this is who Proton is right now, this guy. And this is who the Proton board is, people who support this guy and his vision.
This is proton. Shop accordingly.
The original 404 Media article.
404 Media is a great publication with a strong track record. They are worth paying for.
It’s a bit surprising how many CEO’s express disdain for their users and employees.
When employees are reduced to an “input resource” number on a spreadsheet, and they sit insulated from user complaints, and likely surround themselves with sycophants, I suppose it’s inevitable.
Power corrupts, you can see it all around us once you start looking.
Yeah, I canceled my sub. I have no idea if the CEO of my new email provider is any better, but I know that Yen is abusive to his employees, and that matters to me. I know he’s deep in the throes of AI psychosis, and that makes me not trust him at all. I’m gone.
Slagging off his employees, slagging off his customers. Real bright spark this guy.
He’s literally why I never signed up with Proton. Bullett dodged.
This guy sounds like a Mini Musk and I hate Musk.
I am, once again, offering to take over as CEO of Proton.
My work focuses on nonprofit-stakeholder-government relations. Specifically how organizations mediate between state agencies and stakeholders. No agenda beyond aligning mission, vision, and values, and keeping it that way.
Reach out if you prefer that to help guide Proton somewhere other than the trash bin of distrust.
The only reason I haven’t cancelled yet is because I moved my family, including my parents, onto a family plan with them, and that’s going to be a lot of work to move everyone again.
But this shit fucking sucks. I recommended this product to my loved ones because it’s supposed to be trustworthy and secure, and now I find out it’s neither of those things.
If you’re a Proton customer right now and not in a position to simply cancel your account, submit a support ticket laying out your concerns. I got a detailed and lengthy response back within a day (one that was clearly not a form letter either, it directly addressed all the points I raised). Flooding their support channels will make it clear that they are in some serious shit here.
Write to the Proton Foundation too. Demand that Yen be removed from the board and the company, and that serious changes be made to the leadership at Proton to ensure this never happens again.
I’m moving off of proton due to this and it’s just me. It’s still difficult finding a better solution. Good luck.
I’d recommend either Fastmail, Posteo or Mailfence for email, Cryptpad for Drive, Keepass for Vault, NymVPN for VPN, and literally any FOSS calendar app for calendar.
I moved to mailbox.org for mail and vaultwarden and Obscura for pass and vpn.
The advice I use for myself is always assume a service will either turn shitty enough that you need to leave, or just shut down due to some reason, so I try and only use services that make it easy to move away from.
So instead of Proton or Tuta, use a normal email provider that provides IMAP and supports a custom domain name. There are good ones around for privacy and features like Mailbox.org or similar.
A domain is ~$12/year and ensures you (hopefully) never need to change a bunch of emails on accounts again even if moving to a different email provider.
That’s great advice, when you don’t have to explain to your elderly parents why you need to migrate their email for the second time in six months.
Too late Andy. You are not going to be part of the tech overlord aristocracy, no matter how much you simp now.
Maybe it’s a good thing for you. May avoid the french doctor’s invention that way.
If anyone nowadays builds something they can’t just bask in the success, the feel the need to spew ideologies all of a sudden.
Not everyone can be VLC
On a side note, he’s smart for letting a lot of people back out of Proton services. The VPN speeds are better now.😆
