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[–] 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Proton has always giving me the ick, but at this point I think 99% of it is Yen.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    What about it always gave you the ick?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    They way they marketed their VPN early on was the first thing I thing. The VPN seemed great but the marketing felt like virtue signalling, I don't really remember the specifics so it could have been a me thing. Then the news broke they turned over user data to authorities. I kind of expected it but they pushed the fact that they were in Switzerland like it made them more shielded from that (again kind of a marketing distaste). Then this year there was them accidentally funding a french far right youtuber. A small enough thing to have been a mistake, but also it piles on to the bad feelings.

    So it's not antagonism, but it's an ick.

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