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Natanael@infosec.pub 3 weeks agoThe Proton owner is Trump-y. Tuta is another option
Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
It was a really stupidly worded comment on his part. If he meant Big Tech and Little Tech spwcifically rather than Big Business in general and individual people, his choice of words and the claim that the tables had “completely turned” are really unfortunate. Tagging the annoying orange directly also doesn’t help make this look like it’s about the pick, rather than the picker.
As an aside, forgive me if I withhold my enthusiasm until I see her actually pull something through and not just end up another way to cripple ElMo’s competition.
jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Thank you for posting this. I’m so tired of 1 imbecile writing something and a flock of single-minded quacks just following the narrative to soil anyone’s reputation (like this case with Proton, for example).
I honestly could not give less fucks if Andy was Trump’s lover, Proton still has a bulletproof tested and confirmed record in terms of privacy. It took me 2 years to finally finish fully researching Tuta, Proton, disroot and others to end up choosing Proton for my family, and I have no regrets, specially since the UX was the only one my wife would accept to agree to finally remove Google entirely from her life (she was fucking paying for Google 1,imagine that) and it’s been a great experience (so far).
I’m not saying that Proton services are any type of silver bullet, and under no circumstances should we forget that they are a corporation, and thus, there’s certainly some hidden shit we probably won’t like about them if they came to light, but we all need to stop following 1 post without doing our own research before we decide if we agree or not.
What’s more, while I hate a lot of shit about Trump’s train of thought (and don’t get me started on Musk, whom I see as way worse that Trump), I honestly believe that the only alternative to this presidential term, Harris, would have been a way worse outcome for the US. I may be wrong, but every time I pictured that woman running the most powerful economy and military in the world, all I could see was total anarchy, and that serves no good purpose for anyone in the US or the rest of the world, it would be chaos.
Trump is the definition of an asshole, and so is probably 90% of his cabinet and the rest of the Republicans. Does what I said in my last paragraph make me a Trump supporter? Yes, it does, if you didn’t read the rest.
dumbpotato@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
We should also be boycotting businesses that support establishment democrats.
jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Show us the evidence of this claim about “Proton owner”. And yes, Tuta is great, I agree on that.
Zexks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I can’t go changing my email every time a ceo flips a switch and goes crazy. Your all gonna have to find something better than ‘just try this other one’
LwL@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Get your own domain and use it for mail routing to whichever email service of your choice. Afaik gmail offers this, and so does probably any other decent email provider. That way if a provider turns to shit, you just need to set up with a different one, but don’t have to change any accounts.
Downside: you will have to pay for that domain for the rest of your life (or change all accounts again)
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, maybe I’ll finally do it now.
jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
This is the route I took, and at 10 dollars per year or so to maintain a domain, this is a very cheap way to remove some of the hold big tech has over our lives.
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can have Google forward your emails while you move over your accounts
kazerniel@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Btw (sort of just thinking out loud) could paying for an email domain be a solution? I see many webhosts offering email + domain packages for like 1-3 GBP/month, and we could just download the emails into, say, Thunderbird, so if a company turns shit, we still have the domain and all the emails received/sent over the years.
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ive actually been thinking about doing something like this. Im tired of being forced to rely on some company’s computer
Zexks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Good luck getting people to pay for their own email setups let alone learn what it takes to host themselves and move said hosted setup around as the hosting service ceo’s flip scripts.
Natanael@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Self hosting then
jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Totally doable, but also risky and convoluted as hell.