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Proton Hears their Users and Does the Exact Opposite (proton.me)
submitted 4 days ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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In an effort to stem the bleeding from the backlash about their AI usage and their CEO's meltdown, they decide to do the exact opposite and go all in.

...I'm tired, boss.

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[–] 30 points 4 days ago (12 children)

Yyyeah, packing my shit and looking for another non-Five Eyes provider as we speak. I'll give up encryption at rest if I have to, matters far less than not giving psychos another dime.

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 4 days ago (11 children)

    I'm looking at fastmail at the moment. It's one of the older privacy focused so it might be an option for you?

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  • [–] 20 points 4 days ago (10 children)

    I hear good things about their service but Australia is a no-go for me personally in terms of data privacy. Looking at EU/Swiss/Norway to start with, we'll see how it goes.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago* (2 children)

    I am using posteo.de for mail/calendar/contacts. No e2e encryption though. German provider, strong EU privacy rules and they focus on privacy (you can pay by mailing them cash if you want to). 1€/month

    For storage I have a lifetime pcloud.com account (EU servers). Private data I encrypt with cryptomator.org.

    Disclaimer: I have not checked if any of them have gone crazy recently.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I really love the look of Posteo, but I use personal domains for mail. Pretty sure they still don't support those. If they did I probably already would have signed up with them.

    Disclaimer: I have not checked if any of them have gone crazy recently.

    Ha! Pretty sure the drama would have made it to us if so.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

    Understandable.. My problem is money.... Fast mail is so far the only one that I found in the budget, as every option is gonna be more overall than I was paying with proton unlimited... Plus my threat model doesn't really need e2e email.. I mainly switched to proton for price and email aliasing to not get spam messages to hell from one of my accounts leaking my email in a breach. Currently looking at fastmail + windscribe + bitwarden for $140 a year where I was 190/2yrs but worth it to say fu to Mr yen

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I'm looking at price increases everywhere so far since I have rock-bottom data capacity needs but use a few personal domains with a lot of aliases. I guess that's the price of freedom.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago

    Windscribe is doing a black Friday deal all nov... 29 a year instead of 69.. and that price is locked in.. not just for the first year.. that made my mind up for me. Just got setup with my 3 new privacy services. Now the long task of moving all my accounts over to new aliases so I can kick proton to the curb

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