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It’s a personal moral objection to his political statements but also a logical one. When someone in the privacy business makes favorable statements about the way a political figure is running things, it’s worth noting. When that political figure is loudly pro-cop, it should give you pause. When push comes to shove is this privacy ceo going to protect your privacy or give in to the cops?

It’s a lot of very fragile eggs to put in that basket. And with so many other options around I feel more comfortable with one that hasn’t issued statements supporting or denouncing or even acknowledging any political figure or stance at all. I need my privacy CEOs to exist in a space separate from all that noise, focused entirely on my privacy.

I have the time to read the Medium article but I don’t have the time to vet it and so I have no idea if I can trust it. I don’t know the author and they published it on a platform that has no rigor or guideline for factual reporting. Asking for a better vetted/verified source than a public blog isn’t a pile-on, it’s just thorough info gathering. Since that was the only published evidence listed in the argument, it was safe to assume that it was the best that could be found and as such a bit of a red flag.

We don’t need an NYT article on this niche subject, I agree that’ll never happen. But there are online publications and trusted sources that do travel in these circles. If none of them are saying anything about the topic I don’t think it’s unreasonable to be critical of the way it’s been presented and to expect more sources to help it hold water. I’d love for it to be true, as I’ve used Proton in the past and it’s the only one that ticks all my boxes. But I need more than a medium article to convince me to trust a company with my privacy.

Nothing against Medium inherently but it’s basically a glorified blogging platform. Anyone can get on there and write anything. The red flag comes from someone citing a Medium article as evidence that a privacy CEO can be trusted. I’d hope there would be more substantial sources, say, from a vetted publication by an established writer for example. The fact that someone’s Medium blog was their go-to source is a red flag on their argument for me.

And the Proton CEO tweet about Trump looking out for the little guys is such an insane MAGA echo chamber take. It throws the credibility of the entire post into question. Not to mention that it’s a Medium article. Too many red flags that it undermines OP’s point pretty quick.

If you haven’t already, check the progress of each of the files in the content section. I had a torrent stuck 99.7 for a few days and when I checked the content I found that the actual files of interest were complete and it was just some image files that were keeping the overall progress from hitting 100%