Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton
Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton
To ensure our mission always comes first, Proton is transitioning to a non-profit structure and formalizing our promise of people before profits.
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Didn't they get shit recently for AI and crypto related decisions ? Did they backtrack on that ?
Even if they did, so what? We should not then recognise positive decisions?
If we don't allow companies and people to make any mistakes, for fear of being forever scorned, then we'll end up with either unprogressive risk averse companies that cannot compete against their peers, or a host of good companies that go bankrupt from the slightest misstep.
Personally I'm glad companies such as proton exist, and are prepared to take risks, as they are currently our best hope against the likes of Google and Meta.
They did not. This is another marketing play
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Do you understand what enshittification is? It's a slow descent over a long period. You add optional, privacy-respecting AI now, and over time, (like a decade,) it becomes more shitty until eventually all your data is opted in to centralized data harvesting or wherever.
I'm an Unlimited paid Proton user, and these new trend worry me too. Enshittification is a slow process. I watched Google turn from "Do no evil" to what they are today, and I'm too tired to want to watch the same entire process happen again to Proton.
Shouldn't we worry of enshittification when we are on the verge of, or on the descending side of trajectory?
So far they added features in a way that keeps respecting users rights, without changing their business model (which is 90% of the reason why companies enshittify BTW). Just because these products have something in common with products of companies who enshittified doesn't mean the same applies here.
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Google's entire brand was built on amazing search, and now their search is awful.
Enshittification isn't a conspiracy and it's not a nefarious end-goal, it's just a descent into shittiness. Proton continuing to sideline Linux (still no Drive support, other apps are second-class, etc) is a great example.
If they were truly focused on the goal of promoting privacy, they would be wanting to prioritise the option for people to leave Windows and Mac for Linux. Instead, it seems like their goal is becoming "Offer all the things that are hot in the market right now."
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Please think before you rage post. Your attempts to compare these two companies are hysterical and inane.
🙄 I think you need to take a deep breath and count to 5 if you think there was any rage or hysteria in my very mild comment.
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That's some wild slippery slope fallacy. Privacy respecting AI was a highly requested feature, whether you wanted it or not.
How does them adding an AI mail assistant that is completely private lead to them eventually not being privacy respecting? These things have nothing to do with each other.
AI is not inherently a privacy invading tool, its just that the majority of services offering it are free, hence them profiting off data.