CEOs do dumb shit all the time. Basically half of their job description.

How the hell is this guy stil the CEO? Seems like every year he is doing more dumb shit.

Fwiw, we don't (yet, it's coming into force next year) have that right in the UK and they are refunding me anyway. They extended the refund period a couple of weeks to give me a chance to migrate away as well. The whole experience emailing them made me wonder if their customer support is just sick of the company by now because it felt like customer support were almost glad to get another refund through

Selfhost email and vpn?

Go to Tuta if you do not want to selfhost. But take your own email domain. If tuta also turns to shit, you still control your addresses and the next migration will be easy as hell.
A Domain can cost as low as 1€ per Month and the Tuta + Own Domain Setup is easy and set-and-forget.

Hunh. I guess, no harm no foul? 🤷🏼‍♂️

Sure. The US states mentioned have "right to cancel" laws. You don't need to fool proton. You tell them you reside in New York or California, and ask them politely if you can cancel for a prorated refund. Many businesses will just say yes because it's easier than dealing with it. If they steadfastly refuse, then there is little you can do unless they try to break/change their agreement. Ask them!

Selfhost

Where to from here?

Tuta and IVPN?

they seem to be under the impression that proton would be fooled by such a move.

Could you explain?

Fuck that. Set your location to Europe, California, or New York, and then demand they cancel your subscription and provide a prorated refund. Vote with your money.

I'm not sure i see the point of that as a product. Tuta mail makes sense because e-mail is genuinely hard to setup and get verified against (most of the time you'll get flagged as a bot if you self host). But a drive, really?

All it takes is a couple of old drives in raid 1, bonus points for a proper NAS distro with ZFS and you're up, a simple wireguard to get access anywhere along a free DNS url and you're all set, you don't need to trust anyone over files, even as a remote backup the actual service doesn't matter if you deeply encrypt the backup file.

Ahh ok, I didn't see anything new from their email a bit ago and thought I was missing something. Thanks though.

"Few Months", they said.

Soon?

Sorry. Wayyyy TL;DR: you're miffed someone didn't provide contact info - and rfc2142 is no help - and your next hurdle is that you don't want to provide contact info to an intermediary to reach out on mastodon?

I may need a (BRIEF, please!) clarification on why you want to remain anonymous but they should not, as by itself it sounds like a bit of hypocrisy, and I'm sure that's not accurate. Sorry if the justification for the seemingly unequal behaviour is buried in the text above and I just didn't see it.

Ultimately, as a software creator, I can relate from my own experience that contact information is the first thing required for two-way comms; and any bug ticket without it gets ZERO attention. Keep that in mind.

Oh wow, yeah, that's his style alright. Although it's not nearly windy enough in that comic to have the full effect.

Most of this is extremely common, isn't it? It's always a privacy nightmare, but are we pretending that LinkedIn are the only ones who use it for more than website analytics?

Browser fingerprinting has been a thing for ages.

Maybe I'm in a bubble, but I have never seen a single person make the "I have nothing to hide," argument. Not a single one.

When people post arguments against "I have nothing to hide," I always wonder who they're arguing against. It's never posted as a response to someone making that argument. It's always posted as a non sequitur like OP and this blog post. Maybe we should make a c/popularopinions community for these kinds of posts. "I think we shouldn't kill people. Is anybody else with me?" "I think having pizza is better than going hungry."

I use this as well as "if I need service from a plumber, I'll give him my address and let him in my house to service my plumbing. But he should not be going through my cabinets and drawers and sharing the contents with others."

I always hit em with: "then why are you wearing pants..?"

If you aren’t Canadian, I think you have our mindset down perfectly lol