Technology

The nice thing is proton has been slowly making more and more of its codebases open source, and has consistently done the right thing despite whatever winds of change come their way. I have had proton unlimited for about a year now and I am so glad. It was a great way to remove Google from my life but it didn’t require a particularly high level of technical knowledge. It’s a little clunky at times, but honestly it works very well.

That's kind of what I'm thinking too.

Legitimately, the degree to which proton advertises, the sheer amount of blog spam and such, made me very, very resistant to it. I really don't care how private it all is or how well it works, I have spent enough time on the internet and engaged with enough small tech company services to recognize a fierce push for growth, and experience has taught me to avoid a for-profit company that sells to you that hard. One day the growth will stop, and the cannibalizing begins.

But a move to a non-profit model is, at least theoretically, a move in the right direction. I'm more willing to engage.

And the point about OpenAI is moot because being non-profit doesn't make the actual purpose of the company any less shitty. Especially when Microsoft was feeding it money for the purpose of harvesting what they would create. They still had shitty motives and created a tool that is very ethically "questionable" at best, and that was true from the very beginning.The fact their ethics team was gutted the moment they tried to exercise their purpose tells you everything.

The non-profit company created a tool that will be used primarily by for-profit companies and hurt individuals. The moniker barely applies.

I don't trust

OpemAi had a for profit division though

great. thanks to you, the nonprofit is making a profit now

If you want anything encrypted you need the bridge still

I use the bridge on macOS, which is just okay. I’d prefer native Mail on iOS, and since I’m always VPN’d into my private network on iPhone anyway I thought I’d use use https://github.com/emersion/hydroxide but unfortunately couldn’t get through the captcha problem.

Source on that? Genuinely asking.

Complete and unrestricted access, following a court order, to the data they have access to, this does not include the contents of your emails or the files in your drive, which are e2ee.

Last time I read about something like that was them giving away an email address iirc.

Wait, the give Europol access if and only if a swiss judge order it. They protect your privacy but neither you or them are above the law.

Only to the data they have access to, which isn't much as pretty much everything is E2EE and logging is minimal or in many cases non-existent.

And "I won't support any company that complies with the law" is certainly a take.