2026-06-16 22:48 UTC
@hubertus@mastodon.social No! That isn't happening right now but do the rate at which proton is adding AI features, that might be worrying in the future. Especially since many privacy sources tend to not add AI. They do try to add important features and improve the product but not AI. Remember how Google had a motto of "Do not be evil" but now they rejected that motto or years ago. It is the same concern of what Proton is doing.
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@hubertus@mastodon.social 2026-06-17 09:49
@XNHQ@mastodon.social a difference though is Google had a strong incentive to move that way since they were free. Proton has the opposite incentive considering they're both paid and their only big draw is privacy. The streaming services learned this lesson as well: people don't like both paying for a service *and* being served ads. I don't particularly like that they're going AI as it dilutes focus/funds from their core, but if it stays separate I'm not too upset. Slippery slopes often don't pan out. $.02.