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For the love of all gods, stop recommending Proton, it's run by a fascist Trump-loving cryptoscammer that hates open standards even more than Silicon Valley tech-bros. You might as well use American companies at that point.
That’s strong accusations and the first I’m hearing of that. Do you have a source? Because the only controversy I know of is that their CEO praised Trump’s pick for attorney general for the antitrust division a bit too enthusiastically. Which is not a stellar look but that does not make him a „fascist Trump-loving cryptoscammer that hates open standards.“
The only place people are throwing up the whole Proton / Trump controversy is Reddit and Lemmy. Lemmy is particularly worse. As bad as the endless scrolling of Linux praise and Windows bashing.
There's an article somewhere where someone did a deep dive and ultimately concluded that the Protons CEO views do not coincide with that of Trump or his party.
There’s an article somewhere where someone did a deep dive and ultimately concluded that the Protons CEO views do not coincide with that of Trump or his party.
Would you have that link by any chance? That would be neat to use as a counter argument.
I am assuming he means this post from the community you linked.
Thanks!
The top comment on that thread seems to counter the arguments quite extensively
Yeah completely omitting Slater's work lobbying on behalf of big tech like Google and Facebook to increase data mining when the whole defense hinged on that she'd be good for little tech made the medium article seem more like it was from a corporate PR stream. So intentionally deceiving playing up identity politics or not doing its due diligence what a quick wikipedia and Google search of the person Yen glazed over would reveal.
Her past is too questionable for a privacy company to endorse. But, move from Google to proton is still an improvement at the end of the day with its country of origin being its strength despite whatever the founder ceo may think.
he's not a hitler-loving Nazi he just really likes that Goebbels dude.
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AFAIK HERE WeGo is an European maps app too.
These sharepics are simply not exhaustive. Having example alternatives and then pointing to one of three comparison websites, might be a better approach. But this would also be more convoluted.
+1, great alternative to gmaps, including traffic and public transport
That doesn't use osm. Imo, it is just not as good
OsmAnd is a great map alternative as well, works great for any type of navigation
(there's the open source free full version on F-Droid)
TIL that Bitwarden is an US company. I love the product but thats a risk
It's also self-hostable and FOSS.
Is there a concern there is going to be a tech trade war?
You never know
What's the risk? That they would shut down operations randomly in the EU?
That they are forced to implement a backdoor for US authorities.
Switched to proton pass free from paid bitwarden and gotta say, its just better on so many fronts.
Same
I pay for SimpleLogin and as a result get Proton Pass. I began moving to it from Bitwarden but aborted when I saw it can't manage app passwords. Basically on Android (maybe iOS too) I can sign into apps using Bitwarden.
Proton can log in to android apps? I've got it set as my password manager and it works just like bitwarden. Only reddit hasn't worked for some reason.
Really? I'll try again but when I imported from Bitwarden it stripped out all app related content.
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at least you can self-host
That’s how i came and register from reddit just like 5 mins ago and this is my first ever comment.
SAME ! ～(つˆ0ˆ)つ｡☆
Most of Session's developers are Australian.
They moved their product to Switzerland because the Australian government started raiding them.
They seem to be a cool bunch but for some reason don't want to implement some wanted privacy features.
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Mapy.cz is an absolute must for hiking in Czechia and Slovakia, Google maps isn't even close. Not sure how the situation is in other countries though
Curently trying it as my daily driver and it does pretty good job too
Mapy is great for hiking outside of Czechia and Slovakia, I use it a lot in the Netherlands! I had to stop using the navigation tough because I ran into some issues with it.
Outside of Czechia mapy just uses openstreetmap data, that is why it works so well for hiking
It took me a while to understand why some apps/services had a + on top
I can vouch for the Kdrive/Kmail from infomaniak. Great service for the price, the switch was almost seamless (with gmail forwarding to my @ik.me mail)
Wtf don't recommend BeReal! They've been bought by Voodoo, a shady company trying everything they can to bypass Android/iOS privacy protection
I thought money to Lemmy (not your instance but the founders) went to a US organisation?
It's still federated so I guess it doesn't really matter much, but still...
The two main Lemmy devs are European. One of the feddit.uk Admins is also now part of the team.
They get funds from the EU, so I don't think it's a US organization
Magic Earth, unlike Google Maps, not only offers you to show the known speed limits. It shows you radar traps.
Why does everyone recommend Vivaldi and opera is left out? Genuinely asking 🙏
As of the end of 2023, Opera Software was 72.4% owned by Kunlun, a Chinese public company, making it a subsidiary of that company. Opera CEO Zhou Yahui is a controlling shareholder in Kunlun.
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Gracias
good luck with the pale moon extension support
Shout out to the Arc Browser
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