Keep cancelling your renewals for anything proton. It's absolutely a metric they are closely monitoring. The sooner you do, the stronger the signal it sends that the CEO is the problem
this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2026
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Right? The interviews were the least of the new problems. I know I'm not going back unless he's completely out and even then.. Once I'm done migrating it'll be hard to make me come back.
The longer they take to actually do something, the more users they permanently lose.
I wish I had something to cancel with them
support mail, "hi I was considering using your service but on learning about your CEO's shitty views have decided to take my money elsewhere"
We didn't just shame them, we hit them in the wallet.
When I canceled my account, the cancel interface showed typical signs of being overwhelmed with the traffic it was experiencing.
The interviews are still happening, they’ve just been delayed as public damage control, it’s in the article.
I’ll give you partial credit… I was curious, since cancelled and delayed would be pretty distinct, this is what I saw in the article…
Another employee said, after Proton canceled the re-interviews, “They said in the next breath they want to continue pushing AI and that the things that were to be measured in the re-interviews would become a component of the performance reviews.”
So still cancelled, but proton is pushing chat box use pretty hard.
Worthless maneouver at this point, the mask is off already. The guy has exposed his extreme toxicity, nobody (employees or customers) will trust him again.
Which is embarrassing. When you're the CEO of the upstart, you have to have as spotless of an image as possible. He clearly isn't cut out for the job. Not that it matters anymore, Proton may very well be toast at this point.
Meanwhile, over on reddit, Proton has launched a bot-assisted astroturfing campaign to refute the spreading narrative. It takes the form of a missive from a "staff engineer" who's shocked and angry at how much his dear CEO has been clipped out of context.
In the first 10 minutes after the post went live, it had dozens of comments from posters saying things like, "Wow! Thank you for the truth!"
Five hours later the post's upvote counter is over 3k.
Totally fake PR damage control.
To avoid the censorship and bot-assisted PR campaigns on the official subreddit, there is now a community-managed subreddit dedicated to Proton: r/ProtonPublic.
Reddit is one big psyop. I fear that as Lemmy's profile grows, the same thing will happen here. Seems to me the only way to fight it is to protest IRL.
The only way for them to even start redeeming themselves to to get rid of Yen, and walk back this tokenmaxxing bullshit.
The only thing that would really prevent me from migrating to greener pastures is if they stop collaborating with the Zionist Swiss University that support Israels military.
The only thing that would really prevent me from migrating to greener pastures is if they stop collaborating with the Zionist Swiss University that support Israels military.
so they're actively doing it, but you're also still actively on their service. and you'll only consider not moving if they stop that collab? you don't consider moving now, while they're still doing it? wat
I just cancelled my subscription and stated the CEO as reason.
Same here. I wish I knew 4 months ago that this CEO gave money to fascist YouTube influencers to promote Proton, then doubled down on their idiocy when called on it. I would have dropped them then and there.
They also praised the republicans for "fighting for small business" lol
Good. Fuck that management. Oust them and give the company to the people who actually do work.
I WISH I could get off proton
No, there just going to hide it better moving forward
What are the alternatives to Proton?