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Anything for people to avoid using services like Proton Mail. They'll ask for a Mozilla webmail, an X web mail, but won't use an objectively more secure service. Baffles me ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Nazis
Also email privacy is basically made up. How many of your email recipients have protonmail? Maybe 1? That's how many people you can securely email by default then. For everyone else you need their cert, at which point you can use any email service. Protonmail is marketing. Same with their VPN. Its not snake oil by any stretch but it's generally not that valuable.
it's not snake oil, but it's like buying horribly expensive infused oils
just fucking put a sprig of rosemary in a bottle of oil, it's not that difficult to do it yourself and it will be hilariously cheaper
Didn't I just hear some shady shit from them like last month?
As a matter of fact, you did
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/
The fact that it's "shady" for a company's CEO having an opinion tells me you'd do better in a communist dictatorship. Just saying.
I would love to see you break down your logic here.
Start with "CEO supports nazis and I oppose this" and end at "so I should go live in a communist dictatorship"
@JakobFel Depends what opinion. Strongly depends.