Re:It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge
by Avicebron on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:15PM
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It's a really bad look, I saw that Proton issued some sort of half-baked apology. But nothing from Andy.
Re:It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge
by blue_sauce_bean on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:27PM
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There's a half-baked apology posted to reddit by Andy's account: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1xjo8d4/a_messa...
(I don't know his writing style, so I have no idea if this is actually written by him or just posted by him.)
Re:It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge
by Fordec on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:28PM
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Yeah, I don't care what the social media account manager's crisis management position is, I care about the direction the company is being steered in and the person doing the steering.
Re:It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge
by georgemcbay on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:21PM
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> Wow my first exposure to Andy Yen shouldn’t have been this one. I’m seeing a loser here and it’s not the engineer…
Yeah, I have no horse in the race as a non-user of Proton, but even if you completely removed AI from the situation entirely, if I worked for a CEO that ever used the term "loser thinking" non-sarcastically that would be enough to get me looking for another job.
And if I were a customer, get me looking for another provider.
Wow my first exposure to Andy Yen shouldn’t have been this one. I’m seeing a loser here and it’s not the engineer…