Proton is Launching Another Product Already? | This Week in Privacy #17 (Sep 5, 2025)

Join us Invalid date for This Week In Privacy #17, to catch up on the latest Privacy Guides updates and to discuss trending news in the privacy space.

During the livesteam we’ll answer viewer questions. If you have a question for us, please leave a comment in this forum thread or the YouTube chat.

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Damn, you guys are fast! Nipping it in the bud eh..

Question/Comment to address in your talk: share any and all details available for Proton Meet you can gather (whether they officially release by then to other Proton users or not). Also share your thoughts on it and where you think Proton may be going with their new suite of tools coming out this year.

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Do you know approximately how many registered accounts are there on the forum (and monthly and yearly users) and also the reach of the website (number of monthly users, countries)?

Would be cool to know, by curiosity. I have really no idea.I believe it could be 3000, 50’000 or 300’000 users ha ha.

Jordan, there’s an echo when you talk

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Great job @KevPham, was this your first PG stream?

Speaking of open-source, Signal’s server‑side code is largely open source with only a few components like anti‑spam remaining proprietary, whereas Proton’s services—Mail, Drive, VPN, and Pass—keeps their backend code closed. Despite this difference, Privacy Guides has recommended multiple Proton services even though Proton isn’t as fully open source as Signal. Is Proton’s lack of transparency problematic or cause concern?

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Are there plans to live stream on the Peertube channel?

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Any decent ways to run Android apps safely on Linux? I have an app that I have to run that can’t run on Linux. I heard of Waydroid, but I hear that it is quite insecure considering it is on Android 13.

Peertube is notoriously bad at being able to work reliably and set up properly. It’s not easy. YT only for now for reliability sake and ease. But yes, Peertube would be great too.

That’s what I know about Peertube. I may or maynot be completely accurate.

On stream Jordan shared a proton article about Proton meet. I cannot find it on their blog. Does anyone have a link?

Excellent stream! Thank you!

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Here is the link to their official page about Proton Meet

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Thanks for the feedback on the stream and for having such great questions everyone :smiley: