Proton, the Geneva-based encrypted email provider founded 11 years ago by three scientist who met at CERN, will freeze its investments in Switzerland, its chief executive Andy Yen told Le Temps on Wed
  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    They need to fire their CEO and get an executive suite that can develop good products and not just copy Google while adding keywords related to “privacy” and “freedoms” in their marketing copytext.

    That’s the exact same thing as Google.

    I say this as long time Proton user and subscriber.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I mean… Why not?

      I want Gmail without Google. Protonmail sells that to me, seems like a win/win.

      Same for other services.

      • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        3 months ago

        I don’t think they can make a direct competitor. An LLM is expensive to run and getting a good LLM model requires lots of spend.

        I like the idea of a private cloud LLM, but based on my experience with Mistral (an EU based LLM service), it is noticeably less useful than ChatGPT and especially Gemini for work use cases.

        Bases on some basic test prompts (related to finding sources and documents related to specific parts of government budgets in different countries all around the world), Lumo did not perform well. Only some general suggestions for sources were provided.

        It would be great to see Lumo improve, but I have my doubts.

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

          They need to NOT have an LLM. Period. I want a light weight, inexpensive, security focused email/docs platform with zero AI.

    • the_swagmaster@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Imo, having Proton just copy Google but actually be private is exactly what I want. Of course, if they stray away from privacy then there will be issues. I also feel like they are making good stuff. As a subscriber myself I don’t have many issues with their offering other than the stuff they don’t provide but Google does.

    • BlackLaZoR@fedia.io
      11·
      3 months ago

      The difference is that Google scans your private correspondence and can report you to authorities for any reason, legit or not.

    • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Wrong bogeyman here, the more worrying problem is the CEO endorsing the US republicans, seemingly (and charitably) due to the ostensibly pro-privacy policy position, ignoring all the other policy advocation attached to endorsing them or their track record of doublespeak particularly around things like privacy.