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Unnecessary and deeply concerning bow to the new "king"

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 57 minutes ago

Honestly I'll still be using Proton and recommending it because it's just good and a net benefit for everyone, but goddammit Andy you should've taken Swiss neutrality to heart this time and not said anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 25 minutes ago (1 children)

Honestly, building a mail server isn't that hard if you aren't afraid of the command line.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago

True, but what you should really be afraid of these days are spam filters and hackers. As much as I'd love to selfhost my own mail server, IMHO it's just not worth the risk of important emails getting flagged as spam (both outgoing and incoming), or losing control of accounts due to a zero day attack or other means. The latter might sound far-fetched but I just saw it happen firsthand to a friend. The modern internet is a battleground!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

Been using their paid service for months. I have so many aliases. I'm just surprised. Surely this company knows its biggest user base has to be too educated to let this slide.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Too bad, I was considering their service when my VPN service ran out. Not excluding them outright, but will have to keep a eye on it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 43 minutes ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago)

Me too. This is disappointing. I think I'm gonna go with Mullvad or Mozilla now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

I've been de-googling and setup my proton mail last week. I'll look for other options.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 hour ago

Fox and Roku, everyone's two favourite small companies!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 36 minutes ago

He went after big tech as a punishment for fact checking the bullshit coming from his administration and his followers. That was it.

Now that all big tech has turned away from democrats (probably as punishment for their antitrust lawsuits), we will see a much different perspective from the Trump administration.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck me, I now feel like a clown for taking advantage of that lifetime subscription I bought a couple of months back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 58 minutes ago

well at least they won't get any money for it

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 hours ago

Why can't we have nice things?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

well this makes me slightly less fomo'd after going for tuta and mullvad- but i'm probably jinxing it rn ;-;

[–] [email protected] 1 points 51 minutes ago

Is he right about the start of the anti-trust action ?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

People somehow still surprised by Switzerland being neutral on Naziism

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

I don't think we can be blamed for Andy Yang. He's Taiwanese and studied in the US. It seems he just worked at CERN and that's why he was in Switzerland when he started Proton.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Damn, this sucks. I fled Google for Proton and use it for email, files, and my own domain email.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

if you have your own domain, then moving off of proton is very painless

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I have decided that this tweet is about making nice with the huge tank looking for targets. I love proton, I really want this to be the truth so im going to pretend it is, since we cant prove its not.

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