Post #1454206

2025-01-31 14:50 UTC

While the original comment has validity, I think it's important to know that a lot of the proton news you'll find is very "drop it immediately" biased. I definitely think the news left a bad taste that's worth keeping an eye on, but I don't think it should eliminate them completely as an option. Especially for newer privacy advocates. Edit: full disclosure for future readers, I may be biased as well since I do continue to use proton services and I love it. But I still try to look at both sides on things like this.

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@Telorand@reddthat.com 2025-01-31 15:17

I think you're spot on. I find it vexing when people point to what happened with ProtonMail as proof that their entire software stack is compromised, when what happened is simply a limitation of email clients in general (and maybe always will be) and laws that every business is subject to. How email works is not how VPNs work. I think it was a wakeup call for a lot of people, though, that thought they could just use their email to remain anonymous.

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@shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2025-01-31 17:24

Just researched into it, and while I dislike the situation, is not something I see bad enough to delete proton from this post I'm quite happy with **proton** and while I don't think they are *the silver bullet of privacy*, they're still about the best **"private suite"** of apps you can get with little to no effort

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