Small shoe.
My perception of Proton was never that users would be kept safe from governments, but that users would be kept away from advertisers.
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Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So the shoe finally drops!
I have been mocking Proton users for years now. Buying privacy from a corporation that openly cooperates with governments was asinine.
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
arararagi@ani.social 1 day ago
No company is gonna have it’s staff go to jail for your 5 bucks a month man, if the government is after all you can only depend on decentralized services.
LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Anyone who genuinely thought that privacy was going to be perfect was an idiot. But they’re going to be better than Gmail and they are. The only way to achieve any type of true privacy would be to start up your own Data Center , run your own email , and then be the one that’s dealing with the government knocking on your door. Have fun with that.
Put frankly privacy on the internet does not exist and anyone that thinks it’s achievable on the modern internet is honestly an idiot. We can only select the least shitty option there is no good option. And the problem is even that is a moving Target I’m not going to keep changing my email provider every couple years to whatever the new current popular privacy option is.
kadup@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Everything related to privacy and security requires as a fundamental premise that you select your threat model. Who are you? What data do you want to protect? From whom, and how bad would it be to fail?
Most people skip this step, and then keep acting either surprised or over/under reacting to any given news. There are people out there that can’t use email - regardless of who hosts what. There are people out there that would be fine with Gmail.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I use Google suite. Use it for work stuff, general bullshit. Works great. None of the data going over it is of particular import (to me).
There are things that I believe require a better handling, and they’re handled differently, all the way up to physical media.
It just might be naive, in this day and age, to think a company won’t cooperate with authorities. Yes, there are exceptions, but they either fear repercussions or they were never built well enough to keep authorities out in the first place.