On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
    • BassTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      3 months ago

      I think yours is the first comment I’ve read that has Proton hesitancy. I’m curious what your reservations are.

      • ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Not OP, I’ve heard criticism of their recent Duo subscription and their bitcoin wallet.

        I use Proton services and my biggest gripe is their mediocre Linux VPN app. No binaries to download/Flatpak, advertised port-forwarding isn’t fully implemented and requires playing around in a terminal, and UI feels less polished than it’s Windows counterpart.

        There’s a community made Flatpak of ProtonVPN though, in case it helps anyone

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Honestly, I just use wg-quick to connect to VPNs, and I tested out ProtonVPN and it worked fine with it. I even set up my router to connect to ProtonVPN, so I could have a wifi network that’s always connected to their VPN.

          But I’d really rather not have the same company host my VPN, email, and other stuff, I’d prefer to separate them a bit so no one company has a lot of my data. And something like a VPN really doesn’t benefit from bundling anyway, unless it’s bundled with a browser or something a la Mozilla VPN.