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Proton is vibe coding some of its apps. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/50693956

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A post by [object Object] (@zzt@mas.to) saying: courtesy of @davidgerard@circumstances.run, 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

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[–] ShoeThrower@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You are buying a bicycle online.

Both are the same price, but one is handmade by a skilled professional with decades of experience, the other is made by a sketchy machine that even it's creators don't really understand... and sometimes uses square wheels instead of round.

Your choice.

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 5 points 6 days ago

I see their repo is open source. Is there any actual evidence that the sketchy machine generated any part of it?

[–] vhstape@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But what does that have to do with consumer privacy?

[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 days ago

"consumer privacy" in this case would be your safety while on said bicycle, imo, and square wheels will send you for a tumble.

AI slop comes with security holes (see recent Tea business, and countless other examples). As a user of Proton services, paying actually quite a bit of money annually for that — and being that they talk a really big game about how secure and private they are — I expect their app to be MORE secure than your average mail client, not the same, and not very possibly LESS secure.