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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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[–] silentjohn@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 week ago

The entirety of the tech space is basically mask off fascist Trump/Musk simps

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Nothing good is allowed to happen ever again.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh damn. I was hoping proton had another good 20 years before some limp-dick ceo started with this shit.

I guess that makes tuta the company to beat?

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Posteo as well

[–] R3dP1ll@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Wtf Proton is same of Zuckerberg & Musk !!! Which mail could we use now ? Where the hell is the world going ? Could we have an Europe Elon Free, an Europe Zuck Free, and Swiss Proton Free...?!

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[–] b000rg@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago

Someone remind me, what's the first chapter in On Tyranny?

[–] PromptX@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I moved from proton to tuta recently :D

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[–] mukt@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week 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

[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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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[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago
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