Proton CEO warns global age verification push will mean "the death of anonymity online"
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/proton-ceo-warns-global-age-verification-push-will-mean-the-death-of-anonymity-online
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Godort@lemmy.ca · 83 pts · 117d
That is the end goal of this legislation, yes.
fox2263@lemmy.world · 74 pts · 117d
Aye shame he supported the people enacting it. Could’ve seen that coming a mile off really.
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 117d
Surely the leopards would never eat MY face.
Kirca@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 117d
Who did he support?
LucidNightmare@anarchist.nexus · 7 pts · 116d
The CEO of Proton threw his weight behind Trump’s Fucking Clown Caucus about them being “better for small businesses”.
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 116d
Bruh, I need a alternative to proton
this@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 116d
Trump+Republicans
Dumhuvud@programming.dev · 2 pts · 116d
https://xcancel.com/andyyen/status/1864436449942110660
Scrollone@feddit.it · 46 pts · 117d
Proton CEO can suck my sweaty balls for all I care.
I stopped using Proton as soon as I saw his tweets praising Trump.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 117d
The privacy community will lose their shit if this is even hinted at. Fuck Proton forever
anothermember@feddit.uk · 23 pts · 117d
Actually the "privacy community" is already pretty on top of this, see:
https://lemmy.world/post/24301835
For me, whether it was officially retracted or not there are plenty of options that don't come with the potential fascist endorsement so I'll just go with one of them instead.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 5 pts · 117d
Already? This was years ago, wasn't it?
anothermember@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 117d
It was last year, and "already" was a response to the presumption that the privacy community didn't know about it.
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 115d
What's a good alternative?
Scrollone@feddit.it · 1 pts · 115d
There are many good alternatives. Tuta if you want full encryption. Mailbox.org is also nice and it supports the IMAP protocol.
icedaemon0@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 117d
LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 117d
...and Big Tech (there user tracking/profiling becomes much more valuable when there is a real name associated with it).
the_citizen@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 117d
Freedom of internet is dependent to privacy. Countries' fake concerns about children only pursue to kill privacy, so freedom. But nobody can take out internet. It's not how things work here. At least this is what I hope.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 117d
The next step is ISP regulation. Once the ISPs are forced to enforce all of this crap, the free internet will well and truly be dead.
ISOmorph@feddit.org · 3 pts · 117d
I'd be curious to see how they're gonna sell that. Age verification wouldn't really work there, since you can't buy internet access as a minor.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 117d
They didn't even have to sell THIS. They just DID it. Public opinion doesn't matter anymore. Even if it did, this is WAY worse than the anti-Net Neutrality pushes in the past, which eventually won out anyway, and this is getting a FRACTION of the people mobilized against it.
daannii@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 117d
So does he not know about Tor or the dark web ?
ISOmorph@feddit.org · 16 pts · 117d
He does. He also understands that 99% of the world doesn't, so it has no impact on his statement.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 117d
Life was easier on Usenet.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 117d
There is still usenet
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 117d
If you pay. It used to be free from your ISP. And it was one of the busiest places at that time.