Without unblocking you'll be unable to message them. But if this isn't enough of a preventative, then removing them from your contacts and then turning off the "Allow From Anyone" privacy setting should do the trick. This would mean they still can't message you and you won't have them as a Signal contact. Aside from that, it's pretty much on you :/

Nonprofit's use profit to reinvest in the business, so they definitely still focus on covering operating cost. Meaning if they make a ton of money one year, it just can't be used to line the pockets of the c-suite or some small group of people like most corporations do!

In short, while a great choice compared to most other similar service providers, Proton’s track record has started showing inconsistencies between their privacy/security claims and the truth.

Lets start off with proton mail’s E2E encryption. While the ideal is awesome, the fact is metadata isn’t encrypted. This results in sender/receiver info, the subject lines, timestamps, and IP addresses available in the logs. Meaning if the Swiss government wants that data, proton legally must comply. Their 2025 transparency report had over 9,000 legal requests, and they complied with 89% of them. This counters the many proton promotions claiming they have no access to user info. Along these same lines, proton identified a political activist to Swiss authorities due to a US legal request that led to about 60 activists being brought up on RICO charges. Additionally, proton made a similar mess by suspending the accounts of journalists working on a North Korean hacker story at the request of a cybersecurity agency they refused to name. While they eventually reinstated the accounts, this rightfully led to public criticism, seeing as proton promotes being a private, secure, and journalist-friendly service.

There are also controversies surrounding the inaccurate or incorrect use of the terms non-profit and open-source. Proton has framed itself as a nonprofit organization pretty hard more recently, this being the Proton Foundation, which is the biggest shareholder of Proton AG. But Proton AG is without question a for-profit business, and it also runs all the services offered by Proton. It’s said this was done to prevent another tech company from buying the majority of the share but seems more to be a cover for the fact they're ultimately in it for the money. This being the case actually helps make more sense of their AI controversy. Since day one, they said Lumo was an open source privacy-focused model, but the only code published so far is for the website and mobile apps, with nothing at all for Lumo itself, even though it was released in June 2024.

So while there’s no doubt they do a number of things extremely well, they also talk a real big game and seem to be unable to back it up across the board.

The dengue virus is one of the gnarliest viruses on the planet. The first infection is nothing compared to the second. If there are antibodies from the first when a second infection occurs, they allow the new virus to infect certain immune cells with ease. These immune cells act as both a shield and transport for the virus. This leads to an enormous increase in viral replication and allows the virus to spread throughout the body. Put another way, if you get dengue fever, you absolutely need to avoid any area where mosquitoes are present until your body can breakdown the antibodies made to fight the initial infection. If you don't, it more than doubles the risk of getting severe dengue fever, which tends to be quite bleak.

Right! It seems like a half ass attempt at improving PR too

Court records reveal that the Google purchase includes 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, 7.2 billion records for competitors' flights, 7.5 billion passenger transaction records from 2008, and more than 175,000 employee records from 1986. Aside from this, the company will also get information on revenue, aircraft operations, employee productivity records, audits and fraud, marketing campaigns, human resources records, project management, and pricing curve data, among others.

This could be a cause of concern for anyone who’s ever transacted with the airline, either as a customer, employee, contractor, or even investor, especially as AI is known for its privacy problems.

Add it to the list of reasons to always use email aliases as well as unique passwords and phone numbers!

I believe the true explanation is kept under wraps as it's counter to many other aims of the project, such as defunding alternative energy and increasing fossils fuel use. Meaning, it all comes down to the planet being at or already past it's limits and they want to control who will survive societal collapse along with them.

So when sharing links, all the gibberish from the "?" on is there to track that specific links use... here's all ya need: https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-yes-rfk-jr-214300381.html

I hear those beautiful lyrics too, but I swear it's actually in C#

There's no transaction fees and the payment data can be anything you'd like... But I'm on the same page about an overhaul for sure

Even if it was a card, privacy.com for the win as it allows for any address and name to be used with their debit cards!

Of course! It unfortunately doesn't work with bigger sites like WSJ or 404, but I always try as it works for a decent number of paywalls.