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There's some good discussion about the security in the comments, so I'm just going to say that Lumo's Android app required the Play Store and GPlay Services. I uninstalled.
It's also quite censored. I gave Proton's cute chatbot a chance, but I'm not impressed.
I'm not impressed by Proton at all tbh. There are plenty of reasons to dislike them. Here is a nice article about it:
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/i-do-not-recommend-proton-mail/
Disclaimer: always do your own research as well.
No chance anyone’s clicking on that link
How about this one
https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/the-intercept-proton-mail-says-it-s-politically-neutral-while-praising-republican-party/24456
Better URL, sensationalist post that doesn’t mean a whole lot
Are you talking about the “xn—“ domain name? Because FYI that’s just a punycode domain. It’s pretty commonly used for non-ascii domains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode
The article itself is only available over Tor or I2P anyways though.
And whatever "gckvb8fzb" is.
Checkout this really cool video of a cat skateboarding! http://znqcryu55_iwjb637.com/definitely_a_cat_skateboarding.exe
Yes lol. Nobody is going to want to open that link.
You still think it's sketchy?
I've explained that it's perfectly normal, that it's just someone who wants to use Unicode in their domain name (in this case because they probably speak a non-ascii based language), and most good web clients should be showing that link as the Unicode characters. Firefox for example shows that as the proper Unicode directly.
It literally is just a way for non-english speakers to have a domain name in their native language.
People are usually aware enough to know that seeing Unicode characters in a URL looks wrong even if they don’t know why. Pair that with Punycode’s reputation for being abused by malicious actors and some clients not even showing the Unicode, and you have a link few are going to want to click on.
It’s not that I don’t understand what you’re saying I was just commenting on the fact that nobody is going to want to click that link.