Rather than asking us, consider asking the people in charge at Proton AG, and then letting us know what they say.
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A few months ago, Proton's CEO Andy Yen was interviewed on The Linux Experiment and reiterated in the segment starting at 49:27 that he does want to have an F-Droid version, but because Proton encrypts notifications sent through Play Services such that Google can't get at the metadata, and because third-party notification frameworks are typically much worse for battery life than Play Services, they consider F-Droid a lower priority than some of the other things they're trying to get done, such as feature parity between their mobile and desktop apps. It'll come eventually, especially as Yen himself seems to want it, but since they're completely private and have no investors, they don't have infinite money for developers, so they have to prioritize sustainable growth.
Highly recommend watching the full interview, Yen seems to have a good mindset about the whole thing, doing what he feels is best for privacy and ownership of identity in the long run, even if he has to temporarily compromise in some places in order to get there.
they wont say why they wont degoogle and fdroid it. for years and years. something "weird" is definitely going on
Probably never. Tuta is a better choice for de-googled phones, they don't depend on google play services for notifications and their notification implimentation uses negligible battery
Take this for what you will there’s been no supplied evidence just throwing it out there
Royal Canadian Mountain Police
Yea, surely I can trust this article...
Hey, our mountains can get quite unruly sometimes, what can we say?
I don't know about our mountains, but our cops sure love blowing stuff up. Sometimes even themselves!
That's the only reason I won't use Proton, because the app and the network is not clean. The best security encryption is made from public protocols, so app and servers should be open source.
Servers can not be made free and open source, that is just not how it works. There is no way of proving that a server can be trusted if you do not control the server.
SaSS - service as a software substitute
If servers can not be made frer and ooen source, why does BSD exist abd all of there free open source 3rd party ports?