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Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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For context, in my password manager I had tried formatting some of my entrees so that it would contain the usual username and password, but instead of creating whole new entrees for the security questions for the same account, I just added additional fields in the same entree in order to keep things a little more tidy.

I was not expecting that doing so would result in later being shaken down by Proton to pay even more money just to access the same few bytes of fucking text I had trusted them with. This is sleazy as fuck and I am dropping these idiots entirely.

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[–] [S] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

You sound like the kind of person who, in the 90s, would have defended Microsoft against GNU and Linux and the FOSS movement as a whole, "This is the way the world works." No. I was using Keepass prior to Proton Pass. Proton proved to be a downgrade in every way. As a company they are in the same bracket as Ubuntu - trojan horse style grifters who wave juuust enough open-source around to lull users into dependency on a service that overall does not support user freedoms. They are grifters. It's the same playbook as Google.

Software needs to be free on every level. It's fine to sell free software, but if any part of it is proprietary, it's as the FSF says - it's a tool of unjust power over you.

And I don't need that. Better alternatives already exist. Proton was straight up a downgrade.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago

    So then, like many people, make the switch without being so vocally negative? Or post a comparison on how KeePass vs Proton- KP wins, etc.

    Even more, Proton and other companies like them are a good popular gateway to introduce "the masses" to privacy and what it feels like to reclaim their personal lives. It also gives them a "big" name they can put some faith into that the apps will work/won't crash, and aren't invasive. So much other marketing and money is spent telling everyone the little guys are the hackers and data thieves, etc. So don't trust them. So, the mentality is hard to shake.

    I sound like the kind of person who understands how business models work (to an extent). Not every single person is going to setup full homelab environments to run all these locally hosted services, or spend a while researching and testing various FOSS applications to try and get "the very best"one. You sound like the kind of person who has a very stern opinion and gets upset when others don't agree or your shouting doesn't get them to understand why an alternative is better.

    I work with a lot of users who don't understand the basics of privacy or how data is sucked up at every corner of the Internet. I slowly plant the seeds to show them big names aren't always better. Little by little they're finding these things (popular little guys) on their own, and in that discovery keeps their interests piqued vs being told what to do.

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