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Unnecessary and deeply concerning bow to the new "king"

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[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 13 points 44 minutes ago

Honestly I'll still be using Proton and recommending it because it's just good and a net benefit for everyone, but goddammit Andy you should've taken Swiss neutrality to heart this time and not said anything.

[–] Rice_Daddy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Too bad, I was considering their service when my VPN service ran out. Not excluding them outright, but will have to keep a eye on it.

[–] YerbaYerba@lemm.ee 4 points 59 minutes ago

I've been de-googling and setup my proton mail last week. I'll look for other options.

[–] 000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 30 minutes ago* (last edited 30 minutes ago)

Me too. This is disappointing. I think I'm gonna go with Mullvad or Mozilla now.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 hour ago

Fox and Roku, everyone's two favourite small companies!

[–] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 minutes ago

Honestly, building a mail server isn't that hard if you aren't afraid of the command line.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 24 minutes ago

He went after big tech as a punishment for fact checking the bullshit coming from his administration and his followers. That was it.

Now that all big tech has turned away from democrats (probably as punishment for their antitrust lawsuits), we will see a much different perspective from the Trump administration.

[–] VARXBLE@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck me, I now feel like a clown for taking advantage of that lifetime subscription I bought a couple of months back.

[–] PirateKingLuffy@lemmy.ml 2 points 45 minutes ago

well at least they won't get any money for it

[–] msgraves@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 hour ago

well this makes me slightly less fomo'd after going for tuta and mullvad- but i'm probably jinxing it rn ;-;

[–] MidWestKhagan@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 53 minutes ago

Welp, the moment that it comes out that proton will be giving away everything I’ll move on, but not sure what to move to. Seemed like proton is the most secure and most user friendly, is there anything else we can use?

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 34 points 2 hours ago

Why can't we have nice things?

[–] mukt@lemmy.ml 1 points 38 minutes ago

Is he right about the start of the anti-trust action ?

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 42 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

People somehow still surprised by Switzerland being neutral on Naziism

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 hour ago

I don't think we can be blamed for Andy Yang. He's Taiwanese and studied in the US. It seems he just worked at CERN and that's why he was in Switzerland when he started Proton.

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[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Damn, this sucks. I fled Google for Proton and use it for email, files, and my own domain email.

[–] yamper@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

if you have your own domain, then moving off of proton is very painless

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

I have decided that this tweet is about making nice with the huge tank looking for targets. I love proton, I really want this to be the truth so im going to pretend it is, since we cant prove its not.

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