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Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month (www.thepinknews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (24 children)

If you're left leaning and want to send a message, do it with your wallet. Switch to tutanota for mails, search with duckduckgo, use f-droid as an app store... No one needs google, it's just somewhat inconvenient to get used to alternatives

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

Plug for https://kagi.com/ for those who can afford to pay for search engine. Best search engine experience, love the personalized results where you manually raise and lower specific domains.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Much like the current hullabaloo about the head of ProtonMail being suspect because of his support of Trump, there's a ton of shady shit about Kagi, too. They're Venture Capital funded. What's the deal with the T-shirt company? Why did they lie stupidly about stuff like "we don't do paid advertising... oh wait whoops now we do."

Further, the CEO of Kagi just has that techbro attitude of "You are required to listen to what I have to say."

https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/112258758788834454

Discussions with Vlad are him telling you his side and expecting you to accept it as the truth and not keep arguing. His goal isn't to discuss, it's to keep talking at you until you agree or go away. HE thinks he discusses with people, but he talks AT people. So I don't feel bad making a blog post and forcing him to be talked at for once (which I never even expected him or that many other people to see it, I'm trying to figure out how many hits I even got rn to see how bad he Streissand'd this).

But yeah I knew that already, and that's why I didn't engage with him. I know what a Vlad conversation is and I wasn't willing to be lectured by the CEO of a company I criticized on my tiny personal blog. Thats an insane proposition. And it's really not even irony--I suspected this is exactly what would happen. I knew that arguing with Vlad would only benefit his own ego, but I knew that bluntly repeating "I will not discuss this with you quit emailing me" will just prove what I already knew, that he does not care what people say (and probably barely reads what they say given that he linked me the same post I already read twice) and that he will do whatever he's driven to do no matter what. The only options were he quits emailing me (great!) or he digs himself in deeper and deeper (great???? idk but it proves a point)

Seriously, his behavior is unhinged.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Aside from political leanings of services like Protonmail and Kagi, I look at one key thing: where they are headquartered. Kagi is in California, while Protonmail is in Switzerland. IMO, this means that if a civil war breaks out, they are less likely to poison or remove their service.

It is all about whether the workers and leadership are within reach of the law, be it official or the jungle.

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