I’ve been keeping abreast of it, and frankly I’m not surprised because of how much denial got pushed across social media so damn effectively. The whole Trump support thing was handled with so much damage control that it was almost surreal.

Surely the simple counterexample (“slavery is inevitable”) doesn’t bring your entire philosophy down.

Well, perhaps it does.

That’s a lot of text that doesn’t address my core question of: why can’t Proton just not use the slop box?

Literally nobody is making them . Their CEO could toss their silly manifesto. There’s no guaranteed payout from this, and if anything it’s hurting their brand. “Because capitalism” doesn’t mean anything either, that’s just a completely dead-end cliche. Slavery was part of capitalism too. Surely you’d not argue in favor of using it because it was inevitable.

You can have an opinion all day about inevitability, but I hope it’s not just a baseless one.

I see people mentioning you can do card making with banks, which is true, but those banks already know your identity, and probably do worse with your data. The whole point of the intermediary is to mask your purchases from your bank.

Unless you’re faced with Persona yourself and are trying to avoid it specifically, I’m not sure if it alone is a reason to avoid Privacy. Any online bank like this will require your identity. (Maybe you can contact them and ask for an alternative method.)

It’s not a false dichotomy? Proton couldn’t help but use the Orphan Crushing Machine?

Why?

People want security from their product, not slop. There is literally nothing “inevitable” about using it. They can just choose to not.

You weren’t talking about fixing anything. You gave a defeatist, false dichotomy of “accept this thing” or “total revolution”.

The reason people chose Proton was with the expectation it could simply choose not to shove slop into its products , which is an option you omit.

The Orphan Crushing Machine isn’t bad because it’s helmed by Altman. It’s an inherently bad thing, and it attracts bad people to it like flies.

Curious how AI policies like this tend to be red flags for BS leadership. In this case, the two are absolutely inseparable.

Maybe it “can” be used ethically, like Theranos’ blood machine “can” detect every disease.

No, Andy Yen supported the entire Republican party, including praising JD Vance in particular.

And he used the official Proton Team account across multiple platforms to relay this information to people.

I ran it through a couple detectors, including the one recommended by Piefed. Maybe they’re wrong, but corporate-speak sure reads similar to it, at least if the ChatGPT-inherited mannerisms of Hank Green are anything to go by.)

The verbiage is so freaking weird too. It reeks of toxicity and retaliation for the people who dared speak up.

This one keeps coming up, so here’s the actual quote in context (unlike the leakers, I have permission to post this image)

Lemmy is built to be scraped in as many ways as possible (public APIs for both clients and servers), and you can probably tell that a vocal minority scoff at the idea you deserve privacy either here or anywhere. That includes with votes and voting patterns.

This attitude of entitlement to your data will extend across most of the Fediverse and to other similar federated services. It’s like something is in the water.

That’s not a bad idea either. You would only need to install FoxyProxy on one profile, without juggling conditions (a plus) but then you’d lose out on shared bookmarks and history (a minus). I guess only OP knows what’s right for them

For context, I’m particular about the extension because I want to able to whitelist specific websites from the VPN

If you are able to export VPN configurations, can’t you use an extension like FoxyProxy for either of these? Admittedly, this can be a little tedious, and you might have to do some research first.

Alternatively, you might want to see if you can just download a portable version of Firefox and exclude one of the Foxes through split tunneling.

That’s a fair point, but if it’s encrypted like Proton Mail, is it even email at that point?

I guess they could apply a Proton-like system that automatically encrypts everything and build in a Proton Bridge equivalent into their clients, but that would be some favoritism that might be uncomfortable.

Spaces like Reddit are very useful as the internal work chat is not good.

Godspeed if you find Reddit useful. I remember when the Reddit Privacy moderators were so captured that they were willing to censor content on behalf of Proton.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1i2r2sv/why_was_the_founder_and_ceo_of_proton_tweeting/

FWIW I recognize this account and I have the feeling it will find a lot of excuses to refuse to engage with the content of the article, so it is likely a lost cause.

From before things really hit the fan they had a slightly different excuse:

I’m aware that a link is attached which bypasses this restriction, but if I have to break the law to read the article or alternatively hand over my personal data, then I think it shouldn’t have been shared here in the first place.

Color me shocked that a black box that pulls data from the entire internet says things that could be a coincidence, or could have been intentionally laundered to curry favor with a dictator.

(This is true for all the black boxes, isn’t that neat…)

Unfortunately if the reporter is Daniel Micay, you’re going to have to take all the claims with a grain of salt, specifically when you get to “supporting harassment content and fabricated stories about us”, which is an accusation he’s basically leveled at everybody from Privacy Guides to Calyx to F-Droid to people who have tweeted rudely at him.

I don’t disbelieve the vast majority of this, but it needs a second source.

(Disclaimer: I’ve also come to the conclusion Rob Braxman is a technologically incompetent fearmongering grifter, and you should absolutely put that $450 or whatever towards a decent Pixel phone with GrapheneOS.)

This is probably bad for the YouTubers actually making content, despite it all. They can see whether people disliked their video.

“Return YouTube dislikes” exists right now to approximate dislikes, and it will continue to exist, and review bombers are more likely to use it and therefore disproportionately influence approximate statistics. But at least for now, YouTubers can dispute those guesses. They won’t be able to do that if they lose the metric.

It’s kind of conceding to the mob.

My first thought is, “is this a conspiracy from a competitor”

So I looked at the biggest competitor’s ratings and… Probably not. (Imagine using AI to reply to complaints though.)

Tuta: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/tuta.com

Competitor: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/proton.me/mail