//People change and he has stated that he regrets his actions//

First step to change is acknowledging what they did was wrong. And then let the actions speak. While I could find an article on his personal blog on March 2014 about how he is going to commit himself for equality, he didn’t mention anything about acknowledging what he did was wrong. I could not find him say he directly regrets for his action that he did in 2008 by donating to an anti-marriage-equality proposition.

If you could provide me a link where he does so, I’d immediately change my mind.

While I was trying to find evidence of his regret about this, I also found that he’s an advisor on Palantir, which is a giant red flag.

//Andy Yen, CEO of Proton, made some comments on Twitter that many took to be pro Trump//

Of course, he exactly sounded like being pro-trump. While I pretty much agree with most of the anti-big tech stuff I’ve read on Proton’s blog, I can’t wrap my head around the cognitive-dissonance people have about his outright support for Trump/Republicans. And instead of apologizing for being wrong about his statement that “Republicans stand up for the little tech”, when it was in fact not the case, he doubled down on it. Heck, I even agree with him about his details on how democrats like Chuck Schumer try to block the anti-trust bill, but even the bill he cited that got 16-6 votes for in support of, all the 6 that voted against it were Republicans. And he wouldn’t respond to these comments after a point.

He’s been ruthlessly moderating Proton subreddit eversince after the backlash and he made Proton stop posting on Mastodon, citing there were not many people in it, when in fact it had more followers there than on Bluesky.

Again, until you can show me that Yen has apologized for his statement, it would make him seem pro-Trump, when even an idiot can see that Republicans/Trump don’t care about the little tech or little businesses.

//Mozilla took payouts from Google for years, yet they are still a respected privacy company//

Yeah, ideally, you don’t want to rely completely on big-tech, but as long as it doesn’t affect user’s privacy, I don’t see why not. And Google is also probably doing in its own interest of not being ousted for being a monopoly in the browser space.

//Wait long enough and the leaders of any foss project will disappoint//

Yeah, there have been a few. I was kinda excited about checking out hyprland, but oh boy, not after I learned about the developer.

//I will not log in with a Mozilla browser on Android.//

Same. It lacks proper sandboxing or site isolation is what I’ve heard. I only use it for casual browsing.