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

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

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[–] Godort@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"We're not liberal or conservative, we're a secret third thing!(conservative)"

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They're swiss.

We have more parties in our equivalent of the presidential office than you have parties in total.

I have huge problems with this notion that you have to be either democrat or conservative. They don't even cover 50% of the opinions I, a green-liberal (actual liberal, not US-definition), hold.

You're absolutely able and allowed to have your own opinion different from what any party official says.

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

When commenting on US politics, they should be aware of US political realities though. When taking position relative to US politics, they should be aware of that. At the very least, they should comment that they're progressive or something along the lines of "Our political orientation isn't represented in US politics" to acknowledge that, like you did.

But when your CEO endorses Republicans, pretending you're neutral isn't a good look.

[–] smitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well good thing I just switched to mxroute

+1 to mxroute for anyone thinking about it.

Been using it for a while (and worked with the guy who runs it) and it's been pretty much perfect.

[–] lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

MXroute doesn't cater to users who require end-to-end encryption, advanced privacy features, or those who need built-in security measures beyond standard email protocols, as it's primarily focused on reliable email delivery and hosting rather than security-first communication.

Tuta would be a viable alternative to Proton.

[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

security measures beyond standard email protocols

Doesn't exist. The only security you can have is if you use OpenPGP. Everything else is marketing and lies.

Came here to follow up with this.

I don't care what magic beans my email provider wants to sell, at the end of the day they're only able to do encryption within their own server which is pointless.

Anyone who thinks email is not immediately plain-text when they hit the send button (because, frankly, it is) is suffering from some weird marketing-induced delusion, or just plain doesn't understand that proton encrypting something, or SSL in transit is not going to do a single damn thing to improve security.

Sure my copy of an email is all nice and secure, but the other copy of it almost certainly not, unless you use something like GPG to force the contents to be transmitted encrypted, and fucking nobody uses GPG outside of very limited situations.

[–] smitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Agreed. I also notice proton stores your gpg keys in the cloud, unlocked by your account password.

[–] smitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

No they don’t, but I never switched to proton for that. I switched to proton to get away from iCloud. I also never loved the idea of them keeping my gpg key in the cloud, I can just as easily do e2e with mxroute in a more secure way