Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton

That's refreshing to see in a world of ever increasing enshittification. Wish more companies move in this direction.

I'm happy to see this announcement. However, just transitioning to a non-profit does not make an organization good. They can still be greedy and take advantage of their user base. That being said, it seems Proton's mission statement resonates with a non-profit type structure. When you are accountable to the shareholders, they become the priority.

This is what made me finally completely switch my email and docs to proton. I'm so close to being able to delete my google account now.

Well this and the docs live collaboration feature they recently added.

Cool. I switched to Tuta because it fits my use case better (2 domains, one for my personal email and one for everything else). I don't need any of the bells and whistles Proton has, and I also don't want to pay extra to get more domains. The Tuta app kinda sucks, but it gets the job done. I'm hoping my wife and kids will be interested in private email, but they don't seem to care, and I don't think they'd like the tradeoffs.

Now, if Proton revises their tiers, I might be interested. Give me something like the Tuta tiers, and I'll probably switch to it. I prefer the UX of Proton, but $10/month is a bit steep for me, especially since I'm not going to use the other stuff they're bundling in (I use Bitwarden for PW manager, have my own NAS, and I prefer Mullvad over Proton for VPN).

That said, it's super cool that they're going non-profit. When that's done, I'll give it another look.

This is definitely great news and refreshing to see from a company, but this came out two months ago.

Published on June 17, 2024

Edit: it looks like Proton just recently sent an email about this to their ProtonMail subscribers which is likely why this got posted just now.

Good. Profit and privacy are mutually exclusive in this industry.

Of course it is good news, and I'm an happy Proton customer since over an year, but this Proton blog post dates back 2 months now...

Switched from gmail to Protonmail and Outlook to Tuta.io and love it! Companies that put privacy and the individual first.

Good for them, I love being able to play Windows games on Linux.

Just wanted to point out that it does not change anything from privacy and security perspective about their products.

Also they are still operating as a normal company internally (they still offer their vpn through a third party provider and they still work to achieve the highest income from their products).

I switched to Proton Mail in 2019, and recently started switching to their VPN service to use port forwarding. Glad to see Proton is putting their money where their mouth is.

Didn't they get shit recently for AI and crypto related decisions ? Did they backtrack on that ?

If so, will they re-think tiers? Or maybe they could give the option for users to choose what they need exactly and what they're willing to pay? (i.e current Proton plan that costs 8-12€ per month is too much for me, but I would gladly pay like 5€ monthly for little storage, VPN and few email aliases)

Is this going to be the same kind of non-profit as OpenAI? With a mission to improve the world? Yeah, let's see how that goes. Another Proton marketing play on their set track to enshittification.

I feel like nonprofits are more like we won't leave anything behind.

They still pay very high sallaries on non profit organisation and many of them pay a lot of money for lobbying. In the end, its more like money laundering

This is old news. Why are you posting this just now? I mean I don't really care much. I transitioned to Posteo as soon as I learned that they stored the private key. They don't even let you use your own GPG key, useless honeypot. Their recent bitcoin wallet supports this. If they cared about privacy, they wouldn't go with Bitcoin. They have been ignoring requests for monero since years.

They also are getting into the AI hype, so I can't trust my data with them.

Then they should transition away from multi-level marketing pyramid Ponzi schemes too. I deleted my Protonmail account when Proton began peddling crypto“currencies”.