If you think big fines work on #BigTech, think again.
Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft generated enough revenue in the past 7 days to pay off their fines for 2023.
Taking advantage of your privacy is so lucrative, that these fines are nothing more than the cost of doing business.
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Big tech fines in 2023 totalled $3bn for breaking laws on both sides of the Atlantic.
Here's a breakdown of long it took them to pay off their respective fines:
🔎 Google: $941 million – 1 day 4 hours
📦 Amazon: $111.7 million – 2 hours
👓 Meta: $1.72 billion – 5 days 13 hours
🍏 Apple: $186.4 million – 4 hours
🪟 Microsoft: $84 million – 3.5 hours
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It's you, the consumer, that's losing out – it's your privacy that's at risk when #BigTech puts their profits first. That means higher prices, less choice, and no privacy.
💰 Fines paid by Proton in 2023: $0.
End-to-end encryption makes it impossible for us to access or collect your data with Proton Mail, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive, Proton VPN and Proton Pass.
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Disclosure: I'm a FastMail customer
Proton Mail and Fast Mail are in neck and neck race with me. Will Proton Mail get an employee union first? Or will Fast Mail add effortless End-to-End Encryption to their service? Whichever wins the race possibly has a lifetime customer in me. I would switch from FastMail to Proton Mail if you had an employee union already.
ALSO, that's probably a x2 offer since husband asked me 3 days ago to help him switch from "Big Mail" to another offering and decided on Fast Mail since that's what I picked in 2023. I got lucky that I picked the one that would later start to unionize.
Do better, Proton Mail! I believe in you! You're so close!
Proton Mail
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