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Cake day: December 22nd, 2023
  • Xamrica@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Proton CEO embraces Trump for "standing up for the little guys"
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    1 day ago

    Well, I’d say Proton is still better than most other options (open-source software, no ad trackers on the website and in apps). However, specifically for VPNs, I would recommend Mullvad or IVPN. If you are a bit more tech-savvy, you may also take a look at Cryptostorm. Of all three, only Mullvad is police-raid-proven to not store logs or other PII. The most important thing for me personally would be that the VPN company is not owned by a larger parent company, which in turn owns multiple different VPN providers. This alone excludes a lot of the heavily advertised providers (Private Internet Access, NordVPN, Surfshark, ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, OVPN, and probably a few more).

  • Xamrica@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Proton CEO embraces Trump for "standing up for the little guys"
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    1 day ago

    I wouldn’t call it “writing on the wall,” but they have done some not-so-good things over the last few years:

    1. Handing over data for their email services (which was legally required) (ref).
    2. Releasing a Bitcoin wallet. The problem for me is that Bitcoin is inherently not private.
    3. Lying in marketing. Proton claims “no data or speed limits” for their free VPN (ref), which is just plain wrong. If you download a few gigs, it will slow you down to a few Mbit (if I remember correctly). I even contacted their support about this, and they just said, “They are balancing the servers for the free VPN.” But then why was it fast in the beginning, and if I reconnected to the same server, would it be fast again. Just to be clear: I have no problem with the speed limit/balancing itself, just that they are lying about it.
    4. Proton incentivizing free email accounts to connect to a Gmail account to get 500 MB more storage. (You need to go through the “tutorial” steps to get the 500 MB extra, and one of them is to have a Google Mail account send all their emails to your new Proton inbox.)

    This is why I personally decided against Proton.

  • Xamrica@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPtoGitHub@programming.dev•[Rant] wtf GitHub?!
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    11 days ago

    tbf I didn’t look, but I would be surprised if that worked.

    I just wrote a nice mail to their privacy inbox :D :

    Mail

    "I hereby request the deletion of the GitHub account “Xamrica” and all associated data connected to this email address (“my@mail.com”) based on GDPR Art. 17, and a confirmation of the successful deletion (Art. 19).

    If any data is still retained after the initial deletion, I also request a list of all remaining data, the legal basis for its retention, and the expected deletion date based on GDPR Art. 15.

    Furthermore, I would like to request confirmation of any future data deletions from the data list mentioned above, unless you can prove that it “involves disproportionate effort” (GDPR Art. 19).

    Thank you."