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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by ShotDonkey@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] randomwords@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago

Mailbox.org

[-] frozenspinach@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago
[-] DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 5 points 2 days ago

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.

He's just one of five board members of the Non-Profit that owns Proton AG. Not really a doomsday scenario.

[-] DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

Phew! Thanks for letting me know

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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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[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days 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

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago

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

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 2 days 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.

[-] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago
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