These are my thoughts on the matter:

I applaud the employees that pushed back and have spoken out. You guys/gals Rock!! Thank you so dang much!!!

To Andy Yen, you obviously have no flipping clue who your actual customers are. Your views are incompatible with what I thought Proton was. I don't care how inconsequential of a decision you thought it was. That attitude over anything, especially security!?, is the exact opposite of what I thought Proton was when I signed up in 2020. I especially did not expect something like this when I became a buisness level subscriber in 2022. For me to continue using the services of Proton, you need to resign from Proton in any and all capacity.

Furthermore to Proton as an entity. Any and all who shared in this kind of mentality and disregard needs to be scrutinized and removed if necessary. Don't be crazy about it, but you know who NEEDS to go I think.

Look, we all are seeing that AI is here to stay. And it has gotten incredible at coding if I am to believe what I have read. The world is abruptly changing, but that is why now more that ever we need you to move as securely as you possibly can. Yes that still means using every tool at your disposal, but with the utmost concern and scrutiny supporting security and privacy. Even the crazy conspiracy/science fiction would never happen stuff, we're counting on you guys not being susceptible to it. We want privacy and security, not features and shinn-shi-curity.

If that is not the company Proton is striving to be, I will be taking my business elsewhere. I expect many others will be doing so as well. Imagine the fash.crud on top of all this. Don't know why I was sticking around truthfully.

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[–] 7 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

Wow, there are 18 pages of 20 comments per, all made in less than 48 hours, all with the same conclusion.

Damage control on this is going to have to be fast and decisive or it may kill the company rather abruptly.

Even if you aren't considering leaving because of the AI use, the push to rush implementation at the cost of quality testing, or the abusive behavior of Andy Yen toward his employees, you should still be making plans to migrate because this situation could end with Proton collapsing.

Long-term subscribers are leaving. Businesses that have been paying for reliability and stability with Proton are re-evaluating their contracts. If the company leadership doesn't respond adequately very quickly, they're going to hemorrhage users and then hemorrhage money, and then their assets start going on sale.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 hour ago

    Outside of the fediverse and the magazines reporting on this, I doubt it will impact Proton that much. If they actually make the CEO step down, they'd need someone with a focus on community and Doing The Right Thing, whatever that means in practice. Maybe a social contract, Debian style?

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