• im_fine_sandy@nord.pub
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    4 days ago

    Sorry dweebs, they’re not even going to notice the dozens of you leaving.

    Commence downvotes.

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      This is the one product used by people who care enough to do something. We already moved from Google because we hate the monopolistic enshitification and want privacy. We will move again, this dumb shit ceo doesn’t know his customer base.

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        Exactly. The only people willing to pay premium prices for privacy instead of surrendering their data to surveillance capitalists are people with a low tolerance for bullshit.

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        This always happens with tech companies. You develop loyalty to the company and then become personally offended when they fail to meet your standards, and you assume that all other users are similar to you.

        Most of their revenue would be from corporate contracts. An infinitesimal portion of their revenue base is interested in this.

        If they cared about you the CEO wouldn’t have said and done what he has.

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          Most of their revenue would be from corporate contracts. An infinitesimal portion of their revenue base is interested in this.

          Are you basing this on how you feel about Proton or actually have some reference/data to back it up? Proton is a heavily individual user subscription based company, calling business contracts most part of their revenue probably misses the mark by a large margin. The fact that they do PR and damage control on reddit all the time and pretend to care about public criticism just validates this more.

          To continue this more it seems Proton has about 50000 firms registered to its domain

          https://technologychecker.io/technology/proton-mail

          most of which seem like small business with less than 100 employees

          https://www.appsruntheworld.com/customers-database/products/view/protonmail

          where on individual level Proton has about 100mil accounts. That doesn’t look minor to me.

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        I don’t argue in analogies. Trump isn’t being elected. The difference is scale - there just aren’t enough proton users who care about this.

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          If there weren’t Proton wouldn’t be trying to do PR and damage control in reddit. Proton is small enough and not a large monopoly like google or microsoft is, there is more competition (which keeps shooting itself in the foot all the time but anyways…). So it can be affected by this.