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!

          • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
            652·
            9 months ago

            These are useful data for making decisions about using their service, but not exactly indicative of support for a right wing authoritarian leader who lies more in one day than he has hairs on his entire body.

            Edit: typo

              • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
                28·
                9 months ago

                that’s why I opened with “I wouldn’t call it writing on the wall.”

                Damn; you’re right. My bad. I somehow missed your opener saying exactly the opposite of what you were saying.

                Everything you said is true and verifiable, and worth considering when you decide which service to use. It’s a lot of reasons to favor the .onion/tor version of their service to limit what they have access to depending on your privacy stance.

          • frozenspinach@lemmy.mlEnglish
            24·
            9 months ago

            Woah… an actually rock-solid account of problems with Proton! Nicely done.

            This contrasts with the incoherent conspiracy theory spaghetti that has sometimes been trotted out to make the case against them.

          • sudneo@lemm.ee
            106·
            9 months ago

            1,2 and 3 are completely irrelevant. 1 is completely normal, 2 missed the point that the wallet (which I don’t use, I never owned crypto) has nothing to do with privacy and 4 is an optional marketing strategy to incentivise migration from google. Nothing is wrong with any of this.

          • jaybone@lemmy.world
            4·
            9 months ago

            This is interesting. I’m current using btguard, but was thinking about other vpn providers. I have a free protonmail email account and was wondering about their vpn service. Sounds like they are not so privacy oriented. And I assume NordVPN is a similar story?

        • huginn@feddit.it
          845·
          9 months ago

          They’ve been cooperating with law enforcement and handing data to the cops proactively since 2021.

          Pay attention.

    • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
      32145·
      9 months ago

      And then we have the communists making Lemmy. Is there any moderate developers lol. Valve is the only big company I can think of that isn’t annoying. All the faceless Linux devs are good too

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
        1003·
        9 months ago

        Glances at the child gambling enabled by the steam marketplace, an issue being blatantly ignored by Valve leadership.

        Buddy, I don’t know how to tell you this. I love Valve for all the good they do, but they got some serious skeletons, too.

        Valve representatives were asked point blank if the third party gambling sites have a positive influence on their bottom line, and the dude replying sweated bullets for several seconds before nervously going “we… don’t have any data on that” while the rest stared daggers at him.

        Coffeezilla has a recent video on the situation.

        • fleet@lemmy.ca
          113·
          9 months ago

          I love Steam, but thinking about switching to gog over this. Anybody have any ideas how we can let valve know this isn’t okay?

          • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
            7·
            9 months ago

            I mean I always use GoG, if given the option. But there’s almost always no GoG option. Publishers want some form of DRM.

          • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
            4·
            9 months ago

            I did this years ago and have like 500 games on GOG. Ended up going back to Steam due to features that gog just doesn’t have. Sigh.

            • fleet@lemmy.ca
              1·
              9 months ago

              I have a feeling I would feel the same. Its nice having everything in one place. What was missing for you?

              • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
                1·
                9 months ago

                All the social features, the workshop, easy browsing, and guides just off the top of my head. GOG is still good for those really retro 90s and early 2000s games though

        • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
          2·
          9 months ago

          I understand your frustration but I’m not casting some wide net here. I’m simply talking about political ideologies being in your face.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        521·
        9 months ago

        If it’s between fascism and communism, the answer is pretty fucking simple imo. Only one of those ideologies considers all people to be equal.

        And no, I am not a communist, and I would not choose communism unless it was the only alternative to fascism.

        • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
          1·
          9 months ago

          Totally understand what you’re saying. Obviously I am on Lemmy. Just wish we didn’t have ideologies in our face all the time

        • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
          29·
          9 months ago

          I have a bigger fear of what happens to Linux when Torvalds retires. He took a break a while back, and it was an absolute shit show of a power struggle.

      • Rhaedas@fedia.io
        91·
        9 months ago

        Give some credit. Even if they aren’t politically aligned with your, they did make Lemmy open source for others to run with.