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  • zkfcfbzr@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldWhy I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail
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    2 months ago

    Hi, this is Andy here, the Founder/CEO of Proton. As former scientists, we don’t do what we’re doing to make the most money (otherwise we wouldn’t have picked science as a profession). There’s no price which we would sell Proton to Google or Facebook. We also don’t need to because thanks to the strong support of the community, Proton has the resources to thrive and grow as an independent organization. Safeguarding this independence is how we ensure that over the long term, we can always put user interest above all else.

    -Protonmail Founder, 2 years ago, for what it’s worth.









  • Heat transfer works both ways - so if they feel you as cold then you’d feel them as warm. In my experience dogs usually don’t stand out to me as being particularly warm so I’d guess their fur is a good enough insulator to prevent much heat transfer during normal casual contact. It’s been a few months though, maybe I’ve just forgotten how warm the embrace of a dog is.


  • The top DDG result for “how to hotwire a car” is literally a wikihow article. Search engines and the internet in general aren’t nearly as draconian as you seem to think they are. Privacy isn’t so far gone yet that perfectly legal questions like “How do I make meth?” are being proactively reported to authorities. And even if you really are that paranoid, it takes about 4 minutes to download and install the Tor browser, which requires no specialized knowledge at all to use.

    AI chatbots are bringing absolutely nothing new to the game when it comes to enabling crime. If I really wanted to make a pipe bomb, I’m sure I could find instructions on a legacy search engine in less than 5 minutes - and convincing most chatbots to give me probably wrong instructions for the same thing would be liable to take longer than that.