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[โ€“] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] accideath@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thatโ€™s strong accusations and the first Iโ€™m hearing of that. Do you have a source? Because the only controversy I know of is that their CEO praised Trumpโ€™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 โ€žfascist Trump-loving cryptoscammer that hates open standards.โ€œ

[โ€“] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

he's not a hitler-loving Nazi he just really likes that Goebbels dude.

[โ€“] Swarfega@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] nothingcorporate@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[โ€“] stray@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

Seeing Proton on the list so many times got me thinking. We let Google take over all of our services, and then they got worse and worse. Is there some system in place to stop Proton enshittifying once they've taken over the internet? Especially in light of the CEO apparently being an asswad.

[โ€“] mkaudio@feddit.uk -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Cgers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This doesn't change the CEO using an official proton account to praise trump and call him the GOP the party of the little guy. I don't care about their real ideological opinion, but rather whether they're going to gargle fascist balls and betray privacy. Trust is a fragile thing

Edit:a word

[โ€“] RatzChatsubo@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago

lol who give a shit? Stop bringing politics into everything

[โ€“] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

These lists are consistently bad. To the extent I'm beginning to think it's intentional so people don't like the alternatives and go back to the worst.

AFAIK HERE WeGo is an European maps app too.

[โ€“] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It took me a while to understand why some apps/services had a + on top

[โ€“] mazot@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thatโ€™s how i came and register from reddit just like 5 mins ago and this is my first ever comment.

[โ€“] Psyduck@feddit.org 1 points 1 year ago

SAME ! ๏ฝž(ใคห†0ห†)ใค๏ฝกโ˜†

[โ€“] felykiosa@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

TIL that Bitwarden is an US company. I love the product but thats a risk

[โ€“] Bezier@suppo.fi 1 points 1 year ago

It's also self-hostable and FOSS.

[โ€“] Kualdir@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Switched to proton pass free from paid bitwarden and gotta say, its just better on so many fronts.

[โ€“] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I switched from paid Proton Pass to free selfhosted Bitwarden and it's so much better (ok I combined it with a lite anonaddy account).

[โ€“] EfreetSK@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Snoezelpoes@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.