he's probably right. the company wants to be disruptive, and it's normal for any company to steal data. you can self host the current model, but that doesn't mean this will always be the case. certainly they will want to make a profit at some point. it's day 1 silicon valley shit
I suspect the enshittification of proton is fast approaching.
Im stuck. Is there a Guide for a fast approaching full suit switch?
Caleneder, Passwords, Email, Drive?
many services will not accept email addresses that are not Gmail or protonmail or outlook etc. I don't know what you would use
@ReakDuck Well Nextcloud I guess but they only offer an email client so you can connect an existing email account
1978 US Automotive Companies: If we make a product that locks our customers in, they'll be our customers forever!
1978 Japanese Automotive Companies: The US gave us their required parameters. If we make a product that works then customers will keep buying our stuff.
2025 US Tech Companies: If we make our products contingent on proprietary software and hardware, we'll lock them in.
2025 Chinese Tech Companies: The US gave us their required parameters. If we make a product that works and they can utilize freely, they'll keep buying our stuff.
Not our first rodeo.
this is obviously talking about their web app, which most people will be using. In this special instance, it was clearly not the LLM itself censoring the Tiananmen Square, but a layer on top.
i have not bothered downloading and asking deepseek about Tiananmen Square. so i cannot know what the model would have generated. however, it is possible that certain biasses are trained into any model.
i am pretty sure, this blog is aimed at the average user. while i wouldn't trust any LLM company with my data, i certainly wouldn't want the chinese government to have them. anyone that knows how to use (ollama)[https://github.com/ollama/ollama] should know these telemetry data don't apply to running locally. but for sure, pointing it out in the blog would help.
@ToxicWaste @JOMusic the censorship is trained into the ollama models too. But of course the self-hosted model cannot send anything to China, so at least the whole tracking issue is avoided.
I want to preface this question by saying that I'm not trolling and I'm not defending Proton. I'm genuinely confused at the reaction to this article.
I'm also upset with Proton's recent comments, specifically the December tweet and subsequent responses, and I'm evaluating my use of Proton.
Near as I can tell, this article (which I did read) lays out the facts about Deepseek as an LLM originating in China and the implications of that.
Why is this article a reason to pile on proton?
Proton had a reputation for being the good guy. In the span of a month, we saw them bend the knee, flip flop and throw shade at competition; all while pretending to be the hero. We essentially have to trust them with our data and they are showing signs that they are willing to act against that trust with worrisome agendas and biases. It's not a good look, and since this marketing to users key issues, it's going to cause some responses.
Calls it "Deepsneak", failing to make it clear that the reason people love Deepseek is that you can download and it run it securely on any of your own private devices or servers - unlike most of the competing SOTA AIs.I can't speak for Proton, but the last couple weeks are showing some very clear biases coming out.
The reason a very small subset of users love it*
All the downloads making it the top app in the app stores are from people using their centralized service. The people behind these downloads have no clue that you can run it locally or can even start to understand what that would even mean. It is this usage the article is addressing.
Like the thread starter, I am also confused to why this in particular draws so much hate.
Jesus fuckin Christ, just marry Trump at this point, Mister proton CEO.
Goddammit I had such high hopes for Proton. Was planning on that being my post-Google main. Now what. ๐
I've been happy with Fastmail for 10 years, though they're Australian and not European. Might look into a European alternative at some point but so far I've had no reason to switch.
Tutanota and Mailfence have a free tier.
At this point I'm this ๐ค close to ~~hosting my own email~~ abandoning it all and living in a cabin in yhe woods
Man, I wish self hosted email was a reasonable thing to do. But it's a pain to set up the server and the domain stuff, and once you do, if anyone ever spammed off that IP, you're probably screwed anyway because good luck getting off the blacklists.
Anything European-based to recommend? I'd like something as far-removed from America as possible, respecting GDPR, privacy, etc., but with a good-sized free-tier storage. I don't think I need more than a couple GB for email. Calendar included would be a big plus as well. ๐ Probably asking for a lot here...
Tutanota is gdpr but only 1GB free storage. They do offer calendar for free as well with open sourced apps.
Thanks! I saw Tuta from the previous comment and thought 1 GB is a bit on the small side, kind of like Proton. But not too expensive to go up a tier either. ๐
I use Infomaniak Mail or ikmail for short. They give you 20GB free, have a whole suite (calendar and others), and are Swiss based. It can also link to other mail clients under the free tier. Only hurdle is using a VPN or proxy for initial sign up, but that can be turned off for daily usage.
honestly probably worth paying for for something if it means enough to you
I found this while searching on my own. Might help someone else. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
I cancelled my Proton renewal for January and am very happy with Mullvad VPN.
Mozilla VPN runs Mullvad under the hood as well.
Since ditching Proton for Tuta and Mailbox...I haven't missed anything and I'm saving money.
I got a proton vpn subscription a while ago and they upgraded me to unlimited for the same price. So I think I'm paying like $6.25/month for an unlimited plan. I feel like it's too good to leave. If I do tuta's plan that's $3, then another $4 for simplelogin, and $5 for mullvad. So that's $12 a month if I leave my plan.
I get it, and please, you do you. There's no issue.
I'd just add that I can save money using Amazon, but I try to avoid it when I can. I'll pay a little extra when I can, for the greater good.
Pretty rich coming from Proton, who shoved a LLM into their mail client mere months ago.
they were also caught praising a nazi party so thats that too
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