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Should i trust proton?
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this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2025
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https://techstory.in/proton-mail-faces-backlash-over-claims-of-political-neutrality-amid-ceos-praise-for-republican-party/
It’s fine, closed source is fine. Trust us bro
All Proton apps and services are OpenSource.
This article is somewhat biased, yes, they handled out an IP of an to the authorities, this is mandatory for every service in a criminal investigation if there is an court order present, they must give the data which they have about the user, even Lemmy must do it if there is an court order about an user. Any service in the web must fullfit the laws of the country in which it's operating. This has nothing to do with privacy or trust about the service, also not if it is OpenSource or Proprietary. A service also can't avoid that it is used by republicans in the US, or that one of the employees is a right winger. The CEO of the Brave Browser (FOSS) as example. Can Lemmy avoid that an Nazi use it in a own instance?
Their LLM is not
Neither are there mail servers.
They've open sourced their clients.
Made with 100% real oranges and also a load of preservatives in sugar.
Their PR department lies and tells partial truths way too much for a privacy company.