cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/50693956
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A post by [object Object] (@[email protected]) saying: courtesy of @[email protected], Proton is now the only privacy vendor I know of that vibe codes its apps: In the single most damning thing I can say about Proton in 2025, the Proton GitHub repository has a “cursorrules” file. They’re vibe-coding their public systems. Much secure! I am once again begging anyone who will listen to get off of Proton as soon as reasonably possible, and to avoid their new (terrible) apps in any case. https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/114961415946154957
It has a reply by the author saying: in an unsurprising update for those familiar with how Proton operates, they silently rewrote their monorepo’s history to purge .cursor and hide that they were vibe coding: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients/tree/2a5e2ad4db0c84f39050bf2353c944a96d38e07f
given the utter lack of communication from Proton on this, I can only guess they’ve extracted .cursor into an external repository and continue to use it out of sight of the public
Hmm… Been looking into it myself recently. What’s your issue with the user experience?
Seemed like a better email/call product all around plus extra 5gb for email storage
Not an issue, per se. In order to keep the team small they built most the app in a single codebase. It’s mostly web code, and the apps are wrappers for it. So it keeps it unified between all clients but it definitely feels like a web wrapper, so it can feel a bit slow or clunky.
Ok this landed…
Yeah coming from proton wrapper slopz it actually felt better but yeah it is still wrapper slop.
Us Linux girls, take what we can get. I ain’t picky
@sunzu2 it feels janky as hell, it’s missing advanced features (someone in the other thread asked about Sieve filters), and it doesn’t support non-Tuta clients. their development cycle is so slow I can’t count on any of these features cropping up anytime soon.
with those criticisms in mind, Tuta’s still approximately the only credible choice remaining for threat models where end-to-end encryption is important. we desperately need better fully open source options for this.
I have tried Tuta out, it’s fine from my very limited use, but kinda locked in in ways I don’t really care to pay for. Last time I saw it brought up some other folks were recommending mailbox.org. I don’t know about it too much, but might be worth looking into as well.