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Posted by dbushell 1/23/2026

Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem(dbushell.com)
494 points | 351 commentspage 6
mark_l_watson 1/23/2026|
Is this even worth writing an article? In almost a decade of paying for Proton I have ran across two annoying bugs that eventually got fixed. Report bugs and be patient.
HackerThemAll 1/23/2026||
I lost all respect for Proton. They've been running ragebait ad campaign on Facebook, maybe also on other media, I don't know that, with that rage especially targeted at Google, spreading fake information and hate.
pelario 1/23/2026|
could you tell more details or links about that ?
Vaslo 1/23/2026||
Exactly the kind of whiny blogger I don’t want using Proton products with his squeaky wheel nonsense. Move over to Tutanova or go back to Gmail. What a trivial thing to whine about.
ZebusJesus 1/24/2026||
considering lumo never gets the decryption password for my data, Im not nearly as worried about Protons AI vs googles default I will read your email.
trvz 1/23/2026||
Proton is frankly a bad company and this is unsurprising.
alex1138 1/23/2026||
Funnily, Proton was supposed to be the anti-Google, wasn't it? Maybe some of "Proton's not in the US, so not subject to scary NSA warrant canaries"

Except... Gmail has handled spam pretty well? And at least if you do get Spam they actually tell you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6090712

alphadelphi 1/23/2026||
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" - Robert J. Hanlon

If you ever tried to setup a martech stack you konw what a PITA is to comply GDPR without any error

bflesch 1/23/2026||
Ever since my first interaction with their support is was clear that they DGAF about usability improvements that I'd care about. Time to build an alternative I guess.
unethical_ban 1/23/2026|
File under "some business bro had this classified in the wrong newsletter". I don't see the big deal and I don't extrapolate this into some systemic disease with marketing emails.
direwolf20 1/23/2026||
They do it every single newsletter?
unethical_ban 1/23/2026||
aaand I was right (allegedly). Account claiming to be Proton CTO says it was a technical screw-up.
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