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      He’s another mini Elon wannabe, obviously. They’re coming out of the woodwork lately.

      I hope people are taking notes so these scum don’t get to skate later when it falls down around their ears.

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    It seems obvious to me now.

    Many US states are now requiring age verification for adult sites. VPN companies will benefit if that requirement expands. The Republican party’s pearl-clutching politics are what can make that happen.

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        There’s a lot of benefits that come with gay sex being something you get socially ostracized or legally prosecuted for.

        You get to have all the gay sex you want with the reassuring knowledge that it will be kept completely secret by your partners.

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            Is what i am saying untrue? If gay sex is something you’ll get in trouble for, then your secrecy is assured. It’s only when LGBTQ acceptance became a thing that all those gay republicans got exposed.

            Same logic can be applied to sexual attitudes towards women in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th. If having sex out of wedlock destroys that woman’s reputation, then I can have sex with all the women I want and they have to keep it a secret or they’ll be forced into prostitution.

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    The post was deleted and they are in cleanup mode. Best thing we can do is post this everywhere and demand a public apology and the firing of Andy Yen.

    Otherwise end your subscriptions!

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      We can demand his firing but unfortunately he’s one of three founders, he’s unlikely to be fired. But I hope it’s a wakeup call to them that they should have a policy of keeping their mouth shut on politics, including all board members.

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    Grrrreat… Can anyone please suggest an alternative? I’ve switched to Proton trying to de-Google…

      • Let's Go 2 the Mall!@lemmy.world
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        for mail, postio. For drive, calendar, contacts, passwords, I’m working on setting up nextcloud but it’s not ready yet. I still have a few months before I’m downgraded. for VPN, I’m still looking for alternatives.

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        Also curious. I left Mullvad because they stopped supporting port forwarding. Proton seemed like the best second option privacy/feature/price wise at the time. IVPN was touted highly around that time, but it appears they have also phased out port forwarding

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            I have also come across Windscribe, which seems reasonably well respected. Sadly, they make you pay extra for a static IP and port forwarding.

            AirVPN has a lot of people complaining about connection speed.

            Options are drying up 😢

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            I’ve been using Tuta since 2016, on paid plan since 2019.

            Outside a single longer outage early on I had nothing but good experience with their service. Granted, I only care about email and calendar (the only two products they have at the moment) but both work without any issues.

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              And honestly, I probably wouldn’t use a VPN from them unless it was included for no extra charge. I prefer to keep my services separated.

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                That’s my stance as well. Having to switch everything every time something goes wrong is too much of a pain.

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            I use that exact stack. Bitwarden for 3 years Mullvad and Tuta for one. Can’t speak to their ethics or anything I wouldn’t know. But the quality of service has been great for me at least

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            Tuta mail is garbage. Used it for over a year and the search was terrible event when using the exact text from the mail. They also deleted my account despite me actively using it.

            Look for a different mail service.

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    Believing in any way that Republicans are helping out the little guy or against big business is so ridiculous I have to believe this is willful ignorance to cover up the fact that a lot more people will need VPNs with all the porn bans and other privacy nightmares the right will pass the next few years.

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    Wait until Big Tech does something and then Proton will cry about it. They’ll be in for a shocking surprise that Big Tech does what Big Tech did because Trump and Republicunts allowed it to happen.

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    Anyone notice Trump clearly didn’t write that, because it’s clearly written? Remember how bugfuck he was getting over the last year and how we rarely see that anymore?

    Just how bugfuck is he now and who’s controlling him?

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    The most interesting part of this take is that JD Vance is very much in the big tech friends circle with Thiel and Musk. But I’m sure they can run some antitrust against their enemies at Google or whatever

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    Guy who sells VPNs really supportive of political party that blocks parts of the internet regionally

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    This is bewildering. What a shame.

    I had minor gripes with some of their services but Proton has broadly been pretty great in my eyes.

    Some CEOs baffle me. Surely, even if they are massive fans of one US political party over the other, they’d have the sense to keep it to themselves to prevent it becoming a thing that causes a fallout with existing/potential customers? But no. They’re too fucking narcissistic for that, and they think everyone wants to hear their opinions and follow them.

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      Most of the companies/ceos doing this over the past few weeks do know better. That’s why they didnt say anything earlier. The reason they would be publicly taking this stance now is that they either expect to be rewarded by the incoming administration, or they hope to avoid punitive retaliation.

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    When called out on it, they then doubled down on this dogshit take:

    That makes it seem like Andy here just doubled down, but it’s way worse than that. The company released an official statement doubling down on Yen’s stance.

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    Wow, I was considering switching to that from Mailfence but maybe not. Maybe I will look at the other options or sit still to see what happens over the next 30 days.