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I've committed a bunch of relatives and myself to a year of the Family plan, and now most of us want to leave.. What a mess.
Wait, you bought/gave money to Proton so early in its life? Why do people keep falling for these over and over.
If a 'can run on low resources sustainably' is legit, going to have test and wait for it to see first.
Otherwise we need to accept what we can and can't have based on what is possible without being greedy and at someone else's expense.
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It's also worth pointing out the fact that they offer free services; most likely, your data is their real product. That's to be expected with, say, a social media platform, but a VPN? That is a HUGE security threat. I'm just waiting for the proton security leak. The amount of sketchy data will be choice.
No. They're a non profit with a specific mission to further the enhancement of provacy. Under Swiss law they're legally obligated to adhere to this. Which means they can't collect user data willy nilly and sell it.
Also, it wouldn't make sense for a non-profit organization to profit from selling user data.
I worked for multiple non-profits that made a profit. That's not how this works. It's not the function, it's the cost.
The bottom line is that Proton does not collect your data to sell it for profit.
Why wouldn't they? Especially after the lasafare opinions expressed by their CEO.
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Lmao k bye Proton
I'm searching for a safe and cheap alternative for my own domain, but it's hard! And I don't want to give money to American companies.
While I understand the concern around not wanting to support Maga or far right leaning extremists. I take somewhat of a net neutral approach to this topic. Just because some company isn't doing something I like doesn't mean they haven't produced a good product. For instance people whine and bitch all the time about Apple using child labor but that doesn't stop most people from owning a iphone because we (Americans) like iphones. Amazon is a crazy huge company that has time and time again treated thier employees like trash and yet we still use amazon prime. What are we going to do if Farmers and slaughter houses all vote for Trump? Stop buying groceries? No. Most people only care when it's convenient to care. We don't really want change or progress because to be honest most of us aren't going to or want to take up arms and start another civil war all over again. The arguments and fighting we have in the states is nothing new. We'll stay silent and continue our word vomit on social platforms while the world eats us a live because really trying would be too hard. That's the truth.
proton fans are bootlickers