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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Is this the same as, "fuck standards, pay for a walled garden, and promote crypto-scams" proton? I'm shocked ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 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?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Posteo as well

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day 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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[โ€“] [email protected] 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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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Large corporations like google have grown and thrived in Silicon Valley, supported by the politicians of California. So by extension they are partially responsible for enabling these companies to be the giants they are.

According to this article Google has funded 40 elected officials and spent $10.7 million in lobbying California's legislature and Governor this year alone.

If a president (even a shitty one) was considering putting a damper on companies like google, I would not be against that. We'll see if anything actually happens.

I'm not ditching Proton over one fucking tweet

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Noooo pls noooo

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Trump fired Lina Kahn, so we know this is bullshit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Aww FUCK. I'm a huge proton pass user. I don't want to go looking for a replacement but if anyone knows an easier way to set up email aliases on the fly and reply to emails sent to that alias easily like I can w proton I would switch

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

As a non-american I don't care. I will not move anywhere.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago
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