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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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[–] 6 points 7 months ago (5 children)

The CEO was lobbying for online privacy by publicly shaming the Democrats. He was doing his job.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Wait the Democrats respond to public shaming? At this point I thought they got off on it. He was doing his job but, he was kissing fascist ass just like Google, Microsoft, and Apple have not lobbying for privacy.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Why is it that just doing their job excuse or just following orders tends to be associated with questionable actions as opposed to positive ones? It's starting to seem like a red flag if those two phrases get used for an action.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    He made a mean tweet about the Democrats, it's not like he loaded bullets into ICE guns.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago*

    Complimentary remarks to Republicans depicting them as a party open to being privacy respecting and respect for the rule of law. Took the Joe Rogan hand book of trying to sane wash the Republicans and downplay concerns regarding them while trying to come off as moderate.

    And it aged terribly. Someone who went to Harvard and spent significant time in the US wasn't blind to what those way less educated than him saw when it came to the direction the US was headed towards before Trump officially took office.

    He was rightfully criticized because Trump never hid his intentions during the election, so people were not impressed by the pandering like all the current tech bros part of the Trump inner circle.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago*

    Am I the only one that read the situation as he could only get GOP folks to be receptive that day? Like if it would have been dems it would have been the other way around. My wife went to DC to lobby for an issue and tried both parties. It's a thing they do. He never specifically said he actually preferred one over the other, just that he got the response. I'm more interested in what the specific lobbying effort was. I am suspicious of them only because they are lobbying in US in the first place and because I'm suspicious of everything at this point. There was no damning info in the reporting on this issue.

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