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Proton 2024 Lifetime account fundraiser for online freedom | Ends on January 5th (proton.me)
submitted 5 days ago by otter@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It says that "100% of the proceeds will be donated" and I recognize a few projects in their list that are worth supporting. While this still feels a bit like an ad, I thought it was newsworthy + something that the Fediverse would be supportive of?

Please share if you see any issues with this, and I can edit it into this post (or take down the post).

Full details on the link in the post, summary:

Join our charity fundraiser before it ends on January 5th

Since 2018, with support from the Proton community, we have financially supported non-profit organizations that share this vision, donating over $3 million to fuel a growing movement for a better internet. For this year’s fundraiser, we’re giving away 10 Proton Lifetime accounts, our most exclusive plan that gives you the most storage and all the features of all our current and future products, forever.

Starting today, you can enter the raffle to win a Lifetime plan. 100% of the proceeds will be donated, along with a $150,000 matching contribution from Proton. Raffle tickets are on sale from now until January 5 at 11:59 PM CET. We’ll announce the winners the following day.

Recipient details:

A portion of the funds will also go to a few organizations from past years, such as Tor, GrapheneOS, and others, as many nonprofits have seen drops in donations and are struggling to reach their budget goals.

this year’s recipients:

  • Freedom House
  • Free Software Foundation Europe
  • Law for Change
  • Ada Lovelace Institute
  • Nothing2Hide
  • Free Press Unlimited
  • The Tech Oversight Project
  • Open Data Institute
  • OpenStreetMap
  • Ladybird
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[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Proton is still a for-profit company, the change that happened was that the for-profit company was no longer owned by a single or multiple people (that can sell it whenever they want). Instead now proton is owned by the non profit that can't be sold

[–] padge@lemmy.zip 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is this similar to how Mozilla is set up?

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 days ago

Pretty much yeah