Oh, they still do? That's good news, I thought they had removed it based on https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/#remote-port-forwarding_1

Yes, been with them since maybe a month after Mullvad was shown to be funding fascists. No complaints, in fact I prefer them because they have port-forwarding (do they? DO THEY‽).

220 million? Pfffffft.

I thought it was legal for them to sell driving data to brokers (not that I agree with it)? What is the actual alleged crime here though?

Not my GrapheneOS phone.

I know people! I'm a people person!

Both can be true. Every "controversy" that Proton has had ended up being a big ol' nothingburger that was blown way the fuck out of proportion.

This agreement is not an agreement on the final law. The Council has to negotiate the final wording with the European Parliament, which is yet to take a position.

Contact your MEP. Can probably reuse list from https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

But for information to be considered "evidence" in the first place, there has to be an associated criminal act. I.e. a reasonable cause for suspicion that puts the individual under arrest, and henceforth, all manipulation of information is considered tampering.

However, he was not under arrest, so there was no baseline of information to be considered. If he was to wipe his phone in-flight, or after the border control (if the phone wasn't checked at the border), or at any point in time at all really, this would also be considered evidence tampering, by this logic.

However, if I recall from the story, there was a certain jurisdiction at the border, which enabled the agents to have "reasonable cause for suspicion" for any reason, which means that it doesn't matter what you have or not on your phone. If they are curious about you (i.e. suspicious), and you do not share your phone contents, just like the contents of your handbag, you're effectively resisting arrest. And at that point, all information is considered evidence.

Everyone was busy, so I went to the movie alone.

I've used Fastmail for a long time and I'm very happy with it.

There is no right to privacy in public spaces so ,just like so many other things EFF handwrings about, this argument is a complete nonstarter.

It's evidence tampering. The reason why it's illegal is to give law enforcement something to charge someone with regardless of how much evidence they destroy. Perjury is illegal for similar reasons.

That's not what it is, but keep making things up.

What would you say, you do here?

The CEO of Proton is Pro-Trump and that's old news

Good points to think about. This is why I come to .ml, for informed heterodox(?) opinions I didn't expect!

Unfortunate disroot just had a major storage hardware issue and is down right now, potentially lost data for customers. So probably not them but agree with the rest.

What's the community consensus on it, though? IIRC, not so good?

TBF, I'm familiar with these IVPN events, but I'm open to learning new & updated facts, fo sho!

Webpages do not load and/or DNS leaks when connecting via NetworkManager

2023 vulnerability

Not to mention that Swiss laws on the matter are unlikely to change anytime soon, (ie. ironclad, in their constitution) whereas Gibraltar is a UK territory and isn't as reliable long-term in that regard —though they've successfully defended against suits before. So, yeah, for now. 🤷🏼‍♂️

IVPN is the only one I've found similar to Mullvad.

So, who's the alternative?

From what I hear Tuta is only barely reputable? Something about false cryptography. Services like mailbox and posteo don't have a free tier. The offerings overall seem to be so bad that gmail is beginning to look somewhat desirable by this point.

Not that it impacts much in the short term. Until a long-term viable alternative shows up, the best I can do is to continue using Proton's free tier so that I am at least somewhat a cents / nickels cost to them rather than a profit.

thanks for the info i had no idea

Proton has been sketchy for years. Like every 6 months the get dragged for unethical shit but somehow everyone is surprised each time

Lotta discussion about alternatives.

For email I recommend runbox.com. They just do email, that's it. worker owned, geothermal powered, based in Norway which has better privacy laws than EU and no ChatControl.

For all else, find a NextCloud provider -- there are tons. Even a couple of free ones.

Its not. Its to fire people who dont vibe code