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The contempt Proton is showing for their users is astounding. They not only think people will fall for this transparent act of damage control, but they also have the gall to shift blame onto the users.

Go read the comments. Obvious bots are posting praise and many critical comments are being deleted by the moderators.

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[–] scoobford@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Privacyguides.org has some generally solid info. For email it looks like your best bet is Tuta and for a VPN it's Mullvad.

They mention Mailbox.org and ivpn too, but both of those have pretty clear deal breakers for me.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Just so we don't forget, Mullvad is 1.000x worse, so if you leave Proton, don't go there:

https://korben.info/en/mullvad-cofounder-funding-far-right.html

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Dudes, the funder of mullvad sponsors the fashists in sweden, have you already forgotten?

Or are you some undercover mullvads or what.

One source: https://korben.info/en/mullvad-cofounder-funding-far-right.html

[–] Hal@piefed.nz 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Mullvad doesn't seem to allow port forwarding, while Proton VPN does. Does anyone know of a good VPN provider that does port forwarding and isn't a shittier company than proton?