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by mystraline 251 days ago
Yep.

And I was on Proton for 3y, until the CEO were backing Trump and Vance on Reddit and other places. Their port forwarding was also painful as well, but it worked.

Cancelled. PIA does the port forwarding nicely and stabily. No jank scripts to run every 60 seconds.

Now evidently PIA is a bunch of scum capitalists. But in reality, who isn't?

Mullvad? But they killed port forwarding for "abuse".
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0points 251 days ago
> the CEO were backing Trump and Vance on Reddit and other places

Something happened, but THAT didn't.

https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-tr...

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ashirviskas 251 days ago
> Given Proton’s outstanding track record and reputation thus far as a free, open-source, crowdfunded organization, owned by a non-profit and based in Switzerland (a country known for its neutrality), this topic is worth a deep dive.

Either it was someone paid to write this, or if author really believes this, they are not someone I trust.

Maybe the organization is non-profit (which I do not believe is practically true), it does not explain them sharing so much with Tesonet.

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subtextminer 251 days ago
The Proton CEO is not "backing Trump and Vance." He wrote something positive about a narrow policy Trump supported that's favorable to little tech over big tech. That's it. It's certainly possible that someone you detest can still occasionally support a particular policy you think is good.
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saurik 251 days ago
Particularly when dealing with someone like Trump, who has, on occasion, backed both sides of an issue, depending on the day of the week! ;P
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