• katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    One wonders why the rest of the Proton Foundation hasn’t stepped in and gotten rid of Andy; I assume it’s just because they don’t actually care about privacy, they’re just cryptonerds.

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    10 months ago

    This might sound crazy but this is way worse to me than the CEO simping for orange man. At least for Trump he has a semi plausible excuse.

    Reposting stuff on Mastodon or Bluesky barely requires any additional effort. And I cannot think of a good reason to close abandon the free publicity when they already have it set up.

  • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Well this is certainly one of the decisions of all time. I guess we finally got our reaction from the board. I was waiting, hoping to hear some rebuke of Yen’s bullshit. Didn’t expect another intentional step into shit. Bye Felicia.

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    10 months ago

    Ouch! They really are working hard on getting any privacy oriented person to leave them.

    I’m glad I have moved away from them.

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    10 months ago

    Do they really need a team of people to post the same thing to X, Mastodon, BkueSky, etc? I’m honestly surprised they don’t have some bot to make all the posts for them to those services. Sounds like a cop out to me.

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      10 months ago

      They specifically said they don’t want to do automated posting, to avoid writing and not interacting with the community. I see no value in them doing this, considering we can get the same content via RSS, blog page or email newsletter. Presence makes sense if it means presence. If it means a bot reposting content, anybody can do it, but the value is very low.

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        10 months ago

        It wouldn’t be hard to do simultaneous posting. People figured that out ages ago.

  • kbal@fedia.io
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    10 months ago

    Pointing people to reddit, as if that’s an alternative. When a VPN provider makes such bad choices it’s tempting to imagine that the decision was influenced by somebody who wants to secretly get the message out that the company is no longer to be trusted, because it’s hard to see any other logic in it.

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      10 months ago

      I’m searching for a safe and cheap alternative for my own domain, but it’s hard! And I don’t want to give money to American companies.

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      10 months ago

      I’m not, they are a bunch of researchers having their servers in the country with the most privacy protective laws in the world.

      Sure, criticise them when they do bad things, but what do you propose, google mail (etc.)?

      If you don’t have some real information you are just following a gut feeling (which by the way is the simplest to manipulate) and I think that is kind of curious actually.

      I like Proton, I have their email & VPN, works like a charm, and their servers are in nuke safe bunkers in the swiss mountains.

      The only other company that I have seen that isn’t shady like for sure seems to be Mullvad, I mean if you hate the swiss or something or prefer the swedes …