Proton Mail Says It’s “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party
theintercept.com
The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/30934764

Proton Mail Says It’s “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party

The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.

  • radon12445@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I personally feel like this is overblown way too much, if I’m not missing anything.

    While the wording could have been better, the CEO clarified later on that he specifically talked about the nominee and criticized democrats in position of power that blocked bills that are important to Proton’s core values.

    I understand that the initial post could have been read as a broad support for Republicans and their general policies. But with the clarification it is, in my opinion, very possible that this is exactly what was meant.

    Obviously it also wasn’t great that he replied from official accounts. But again, that’s more of a PR problem and less of a core value problem people make it out to be.

  • haverholm@kbin.earth
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    2 days ago

    Email alternatives I’ve been recommended but not personally tried — please comment if they’re also gone to the dark side somehow:

      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Ah, alright. I was more thinking of getting a paid subscription anyways. At least the lower tier for 36€ a year seems fair. Though I wish they also offered chat and a few other services as well. Btw, if you’re technically inclined… There are tools like imapsync which do this for any mail provider. Or with Evolution or Thunderbird as a mail client, I believe you can just select all your mails and drag and drop them into a different mailbox. That should get it done as well. (Edit: No IMAP)

          • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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            2 days ago

            You’re right. I finished reading their website only after commenting. Guess I’m not their target audience then. I prefer doing encryption on my device, as most of my regular mails come in unsecure and unencrypted anyways. And I guess we’d have to replace email in it’s entirety with a more modern protocol to make it secure and usable. I mean my bank, internet service provider and almost everyone stopped sending me invoices, bills etc via mail already years ago. And it’s not like they offer to do it via Tuta secure mail… So I guess all of these services are niche and limited by the trade-offs they need to invent.

    • NudeNewt@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Haven’t heard of Tuta Mail, I’l be sure to look into it. Already in the process (mentally) to transition to Mullvad. The lack of port forwarding is a shame but their privacy and security is on another level.

      Thank you for the recommendation!

      Edit: All clients are OSS??? That’s amazing!!!

      • lemmeBe@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 days ago

        When a user’s assigned a static forwarded port, it creates a unique identifier that can be used to track and correlate their VPN activity over time.

        This persistent identifier undermines the core anonymity purpose of a VPN service, as it provides a way to fingerprint and potentially deanonymize specific users despite the VPN encryption.