Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees

• elrecoal19_1@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Except politics, actually, can change the service. For example, surrendering data in secret. Or installing backdoors.

  Not that I think Proton is gonna do that (or at least hope so), but thinking “why would I care about politics, they don’t affect the app on a technical level” is incredibly naive and potentially incorrect.

  With an over-the-top example, it’s kinda like saying “why should I care about the politics of my landlord after they support the “Increase Tenant’s Rent” party, it doesn’t change the service”

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  • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If your threat model depends of political idiologies then you should reconsider youe threat model.

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    • anachrohack@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If a person signals loyalty to a criminal government which is violating the rights of its people daily, why would I trust them not to cooperate with that government when they ask for a backdoor to be installed? Conservatives are simply not trustworthy

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      • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Because his power is limited? He cannot just change policy on a dime

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      • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So why do you trust any company? Every company has people like that employed. Do you make a political-views check on every employee of a company before choosing your product?

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  • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Unless the governance structure agrees to it they can’t and even the we vaj sue them for abusing a Swiss non profit

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