Bundles in general are not great…
Companies and businesses benefit from the bundling bias, which usually is an indication that consumers are losing out. By creating bundled packages that people do not fully take advantage of, businesses are getting more money than they usually would and reap a greater profit.
And that’s before we factor in whether it’ll keep people from searching out alternatives thanks to convenience:
The successful deployment of a platform expansion strategy requires leveraging a customer group (composed primarily of end consumers) from one interaction to another, which would entail multiple contractual and technical tactics that differ in their degree of interference with customer choice. The more coercive these tactics are, the more they will resemble the effect that tying and bundling practices have on consumer behavior and thus the more likely to trigger competition law scrutiny.
Companies like Apple also keep people in their ecosystem by offering nice things upfront and then introducing sunk cost issues.
gamedeviancy@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Ok, but what does it mean, is that, when proton will be compromised, all of your data also can be compromised. When we have our data divided between different independent services, compromising one does not mean violating the others.
Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
This whole line of thinking seems to be based on FUD more then anything else.
There is no evidence or reason to believe some major compromise of proton will happen.
gamedeviancy@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
No, I’m not saying that I don’t trust proton at all. I think that they have great services but as I wrote in the title - don’t put all eggs in one basket.
I think I won’t trust any company with holding ALL my data.
Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
If all your eggs are encrypted, having those eggs in one basket or five doesn’t matter from a security perspective. Its the same reason you wouldn’t split up your passwords to multiple password managers.
furrowsofar@beehaw.org 5 months ago
All security is porous. So there is every reason to believe that Proton or any other org will have a major breach at some point.
Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
“All security is porous” is FUD pure reasoning and completely disregards the security audits Proton does to make sure its not anything like lastpass.
You are also assuming if proton was breached that it means all encrypted data would be available to the malicious party which is also extremely unlikely.
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I don’t know about that. If I use Google to sign in to different separate services, if my Google account is compromised, then so are all the other services, no?
If they’re all independent services then it becomes a hassle. Having to have multiple apps or accounts to manage.
You make a valid point, but I think there should be some kind of middle ground between the two.