Early on, the CEO, owner, of proton, ran a self published glam campain for himself,company, and family.So it's easy to see him attempt to do a little , heh heh ;), social mountain climbing.

And as a user (less and less) of proton,it's been a slog,with technical problems on an android phone, impossible to resolve, years, multiple different phones, browsers....it's on there end, and there technical support , engages, but does nothing. And the pokbun does not load.

are you aware of good alternatives?

i was thinking tuta.com but did not do proper research yet.

Having personal/business web space with domain email is reasonable, and the lowest tier prices are very cost effective,simple to use, with clutter free, intuitive UI. Having a domain free's up any possible liability from switching service or hardware providers and also means that anything you build, or pay to have built is your own intellectual property.Tech support tends to be good, as long as the problems are actualy technical, and you can provide relevant details, but the learning curve is steep, and nothing is intuitive on the back end, though it's worth it all, for the " IT WORKED!!, Heeeeeyyyyyy! I'm soooo Cool! " moment.

fastmail is awesome

That's really the core of it for me. Literally no one was asking for or expecting his input on the appointment of an assistant attorney at the US DoJ. Trump probably doesn't even know who this is or what their job is. The fact that Proton's CEO decided to talk about it is most of the attention this appointment even got.

Even outside of me thinking it was a poorly thought out endorsement, it's just so amazingly unnecessary. I follow journalists and activists around anti-trust and internet regulation and I literally hadn't heard about this appointment.