Not sure, they do seem to store something (pretty unclear what though), but I'm guessing that can be fully decoupled from a user's account, since it's unrelated to the actual service.

This comparison makes no sense.

Signal doesn't have payment data. It's not a paid service. Proton is a paid subscription service and that payment data needs to be accessible in order to charge the user and they're not a payment processor.

Switzerland used to be one of the best countries for it, but indeed not anymore. Proton is well aware and has already moved some infrastructure out of Switzerland.

Signal demonstrated that you can decouple payment info from account info

How did Signal demonstrate this? Signal is not a paid subscription service

Huh? The game studios pay the licenses, the artists etc. Why on earth would you then hold the store accountable? This is double dipping. That's like charging a CD store for selling your CDs.

This shit is why the music industry is despised.

Even in the remote chance that this is true, they wouldn't have had any reason to fire the missile if the US didn't attack, so the blame would still lie with the US.

I doubt they're actually worried. Their donors are probably getting rich from this, so it's all according to plan

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