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Unnecessary and deeply concerning bow to the new "king"

Update: position got backed up by an official Proton post on Mastodon, it's an official Proton statement now. https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833073219145503

Update 2, plot-twist: they removed this response from Mastodon - seems they realize it exploded into their face!

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[–] definitely_human@lemmy.ml 3 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

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[–] frozenspinach@lemmy.ml 3 points 20 hours ago
[–] DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Damn it. I just switched over from Google about a month ago. Worked on creating lots of aliases for my signs-in throughout the internet. I'm not leaving this easily, but now it's something that I'm thinking about and will bounce if things get worse.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

Pop goes the weasel

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Any good alternative to proton services? For mail I have tuta so far, but they cover only that part and the webmail UX in tuta is actually worse for the free tier.

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[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

It's almost understandable to bend the knee in the hopes of avoiding the coming purges, but this goes well beyond just seeking corporate survival. Genuinely disgusting. It looks like the way forward for Proton will be lit by the bridges they're burning.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 21 hours ago

Is this the same as, "fuck standards, pay for a walled garden, and promote crypto-scams" proton? I'm shocked 😮

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh damn. I was hoping proton had another good 20 years before some limp-dick ceo started with this shit.

I guess that makes tuta the company to beat?

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Posteo as well

[–] Geobloke@lemm.ee 2 points 20 hours ago

Let's see if he keeps Leena Khan if he's so anti trust

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 22 hours ago

say what you will about trump. sure hes a small pathetic man. sure he is under musk and putin, but there are people under him. He may be a sycophant but he is the head sycophant.

Well shit, I was about to make the switch to Proton for email... glad I've been lazy about it, now. I'll figure something else out, mail-in-a-box looks like what I really want anyway

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago
[–] Oestradiolo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 23 hours ago

My take is that a libertarian who thinks big government (or the spooky 👻 deep state) is out to get him is an attitude I want for the ceo of a privacy company.

If Trumps associates are going to jail for refusing to turn over passwords to their proton accounts, then I think the service is working.

Gonna be super funny when Trump turns on him anyways though, and bans proton from the US, because only his privacy actually matters.

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