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Proton users cancel subscriptions following CEO Andy Yen’s “loser thinking” remarks (cybernews.com)
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[+] 168 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (28 children)
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  • [–] 209 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    The biggest dickhead I know runs my server.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 week ago (13 children)

    GOG is a good company we all pay for.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Not with the AI generated images they use

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  • [–] 20 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    They no longer use it.

    I open it right now and all I see is flashy text with game cover art in the offers/deals pages.

    DRM-free is a big plus.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    They no longer use it.

    Is there a source or proof on that? Or is it just that you didn't find it right now on their website?

    The big drama was during their "2026 sale", where they used GenAI promotional art for the event. They also seem to have refused to confirm using GenAI, and at the time made no promise/commitment to stop.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    The GOG that knowingly sent out emails with Nazi symbols in?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago* (4 children)

    Didn't get one.

    Talking about GOG the DRM-free digital PC game store.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Yes they sent an email with the subject containing two runes resembling the SS logo.

    "They didn't notice", but somehow they didn't send it to German users

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    This genuinely looked like a mistake, where was it reported they didnt send it to German users? I only saw that it was a German QA team that noticed it.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 week ago

    Article linked elsewhere seems to indicate it didn't go to German users because the German QA team found the issue before it was sent, but due to an internal communication breakdown the issue didn't make it back to the international team before the emails had already been sent. GOG immediately apologized for the mistake and changed their internal processes to catch these types of mistakes sooner.

    It very much reads like an honest mistake, and even then it only impacted a subset of GOG users because it's entirely dependent on the font used to render the email subject. The actual Unicode character used was a curved S (a letter from the Greek character set), but certain fonts render it looking more like the infamous SS symbol.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago*

    GOG published a letter with neo Nazi imagery, knowingly said it wouldn’t be okay in Germany, and sent the email to everywhere else. After a huge outrage they gave a meaningless apology without any real comitment to investigating how it happened or how they would ensure it never happened again.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (8 children)

    Yes go self host email, I'll wait

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Oh, I've done it.... Won't do it again, but I have done it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Legitly the only way i would ever dare to even attempt self hosting email again is in 20 years when ai can do it entirely for me using the power of a single AA battery. No sane person self hosts email!

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago

    I have found if you choose providers that do things like run on 100% sustainable energy, you tend to find the places where leadership's morals overtake their pockets. There are a few mail providers like this.

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