• CL4P-TP@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    I don’t get why people think that any company for that matter would go to jail for a random dude online. They do hand over metadata and everything else is encrypted. Not even Proton can access that data. When served with a court order they have to hand it over. Now if it were GMail, they’d probably make a collage with your pics and share them. That’s the difference.

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        2 hours ago

        Because, running such services costs money. And this is not a charitable organisation. GMail does this for free because they’re making money off of you with ads and by selling your data.

        I really don’t get why this is so difficult to understand. Would you run a cafe offering free coffee?

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            3 minutes ago

            Everybody has their reasons and it doesn’t have to make sense to anyone else especially to a random person online like me. But just out of curiosity, what were you doing? If you don’t mind sharing it.

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        7 days ago

        Basically comparing apples to oranges. Mullvad just does one thing or maybe two if you include the browser. Proton operates on a different scale. There’s going to be some data generated if you expect to use the whole suite without running into issues. I’ll accept your argument when mullvad operates on a similar scale with the same opsec.

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          7 days ago

          I’m not buying ‘they need data cos they offer more products’. The companies have made different choices in how they build their software.