> Proton is a privacy company, though, and what its users pay for is the confidence that the people building it are careful. Shipping slowly and carefully is part of what they’re selling.

Totally agree. I pay for Proton because I choose to trust their business practices more than Google. If Proton continues to move in this direction and hemorrhage trust, they will lose not just my business, but a significant portion of their client base [0]

See also ongoing annoyance amongst privacy community over decisions to prioritize feature bloat over bug fixes [1,2], add to that bad political takes by leadership[3], and some data retention choices which resulted in Proton indirectly supplying user information to US intelligence [4]. Not a good look.

[0] https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/945460-general-ideas...

[1] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/how-should-we-handle-pro...

[2] https://youtu.be/831ndXv65CM

[3] https://mastodon.neat.computer/@jonah/113833858219604994

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20260305204857/https://www.404me...