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Proton is vibe coding some of its apps. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/50693956

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A post by [object Object] (@zzt@mas.to) saying: courtesy of @davidgerard@circumstances.run, Proton is now the only privacy vendor I know of that vibe codes its apps: In the single most damning thing I can say about Proton in 2025, the Proton GitHub repository has a “cursorrules” file. They’re vibe-coding their public systems. Much secure! I am once again begging anyone who will listen to get off of Proton as soon as reasonably possible, and to avoid their new (terrible) apps in any case. https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/114961415946154957

It has a reply by the author saying: in an unsurprising update for those familiar with how Proton operates, they silently rewrote their monorepo’s history to purge .cursor and hide that they were vibe coding: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients/tree/2a5e2ad4db0c84f39050bf2353c944a96d38e07f

given the utter lack of communication from Proton on this, I can only guess they’ve extracted .cursor into an external repository and continue to use it out of sight of the public

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[-] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago

Spammers and blacklists may not be as big of an issue as you think, as long as you don't share you real email with untrusted apps (eg: only use email aliases from something like Simplelogin or anonaddy).

Nevertheless you could always setup your own domain with an email service, which lets you more easily migrate platforms.

I believe simplelogin lets you change your mailbox for aliases so in an even that you are changing email address, you can redirect those too.

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

That's not the issue

It's a massive pain to actually get your emails to be received if you use a random self hosted ip

[-] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

Oh i guess thats what they meant by blacklist, was not thinking of ip reputation? If that's the issue, I have never experienced it, I believe there are tools you can use to see if your ip is bad and in that case u can probably ask ur isp for a new one (if u pay for static ip).

My other advice for using your own domain still stands, makes it a lot easier to swap around providers.

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