Most companies try to earn community trust through words but proton put it all out on the table.

Ok but its to late they’ve already sold it and used it.

My issue isnt them texting my number and seeing if im a human. I dont like that they store my phone number and email because if I use my phone number and a random email on 1 site and my phone number and a random email on another site I can be tracked via my phone number in the dataset that these sites sell.

It sucks that privacy enthusiasts have to mix with actual criminals trying to hide.

I couldnt find any sim cards that didnt require a CC to activate. I brought one that came loaded with $40 and still asked for a CC to activate which sucked. My threat model is not existent I just believe think every service I sign up to needs to know who I am.

With every single piece of news I read I’m glad I’m not living in the uk. It seems over the last 10 years it’s been getting more and more dystopian

Majority of people already use chrome

I just canceled because it didn’t support my distro. Guess I’m signing back up

I’ve never heard anyone suggest telegram as a private service.

We knew it was happening but it’s always good to get names of the companies doing it. Another reason to be privacy minded online. This company operates purely off publicly available information.

de-anonymatized a laptop by having the webpage play a high frequence sound that is then picked up by the spyware in your phone is really smart. To truely be private online you need to be paranoid.

Its open source, self host-able or cloud host and its had enough audits to say its fairly secure.

Is that shady? Arent all other AI companies + many other data gather services doing exactly the same thing. We need to wait for the court cases to conclude if AI datasets can use publicly available information for training.