wakest likes your bugs ⁂RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116178581339270397
Proton is a honey pot. If you are using it as an activist you should think twice about what its actually providing you.
heres the full article behind the paywall https://archive.ph/gx6U4 (yes I know archive.today has some serious issues too, but I don't have a better source to unpaywall links yet)
hipgnose@liaizon I think in this case every email provider would need to comply to local laws and give the same data, right? Because they can't operate with credit card without read access to this data.
I remember Mullvad had nice alternative payment options, but I can't see how a credit card payment would be different there for example, but I don't know if i'm missing something
@hipgnose they advertise themselves as a Security and Privacy product to people who then think it is SAFE for them to give personal data to Proton cause they are a "privacy respecting" email provider. There is ways to make money without collecting peoples credit card info and assigning it to the registered account. This is why projects like https://njal.la exist
shadowwwind@liaizon @hipgnose and they do provide cash and crypto payment options.
They never claimed to provide anonymity
https://proton.me/blog/how-to-send-an-anonymous-email
They never claimed to provide anonymity
https://proton.me/blog/how-to-send-an-anonymous-email
@shadowwwind @hipgnose i'm sorry but thats bullshit, they claim they are the most trusted secure email provider and go on and on about how much you can trust them https://proton.me/mail/security this says absolutely nothing about what they do with your credit card data after they trick you into signing up for a pro account. if they are advertising themselves as trusted by journalists and they they proudly hand over personal data about their users to the feds they are predatory...
@shadowwwind @hipgnose in this page they don't list any alternative payment options, only ones that have KYC
John McChesney-Young@liaizon @shadowwwind @hipgnose They provide instructions on alternate forms of payment here: https://proton.me/support/payment-options. It's unclear to me why they don't show all options to start with, but they do offer them.
