If files were easily accessible between profiles, wouldn’t that harm the privacy of having multiple profiles?

A la carte pricing has gone out the window in favor of bundles. This enables the same subsidization model of business used by Apple, Google, etc. Even when you pay, they display ads and reminders to get you to upgrade to higher tiers. Drive launched in beta only for paid users. Drive now encourages the use of their proprietary document format. They hand out storage bonuses for each year of membership. That’s not a sustainable long-term practice and purposefully creates stickiness. Generally speaking, they don’t have easy export tools, so they’re not very interoperable. Forwarding emails sent to @proton.me or @protonmail.com addresses to a new inbox is not possible unless you’re a paying customer, which makes switching more difficult.

Moved from Proton to Mullvad to Windscribe

Proton kept getting worse and is moving towards a walled garden.

Mullvad seemed great on the private payment front. Their apps are pretty solid. The device limit was too low for me. For 6-10 devices the price doubles.

Windscribe won me over with their build a plan option. Their apps aren’t the most visually appealing but get the job done.

Almost all of the big websites have parental control settings that would alleviate the vast majority of these “problems” if parents actually used them.

Nope. Parental controls in general suck and are often bare bones just for a semblance of legal compliance. Parents don’t have access to every device children have access to either

This could really use a lightweight web interface. A wall of text with open-ended prompts is going to turn a lot of folks away. Maybe I’ll reach out to the author and see about extending it

The EU is developing their own centralized system

Could you specify what you mean?

My criticism is more than you selecting a provider, not paying for it, know what the problem is then complain it’s not what you need despite knowing it in advance.

I was a paying customer. I was not aware of this functionality being paid. If I had been aware, I wouldn’t have used Proton addresses. Now I’m facing the consequences after switching. Others have commented being in the same position,

you can see from the total number of downvotes to your post and the upvotes on my comments

If you think I care, you’re wrong. The point of this post is to remind and inform, not argue over technical definitions. If it helps one person then it’s served its purpose

I have Proton Mail addresses using my domain.

Those are your addresses then not Proton’s. Hence why switching is easy and is irrelevant to my complaint which is specific to the domains listed

Wikipedia says…

In economics, vendor lock-in, also known as proprietary lock-in or customer lock-in, makes a customer dependent on a vendor for products, unable to use another vendor without substantial switching costs.

If I want to switch away I have to pay every month in perpetuity to deliver emails to my new provider. In other words, I’ll always have to be a customer

Thank you, that’s a great callout

10 still has over 50% market share (source)

It does. That’s what session replay is. Granted it’s scoped to the website itself, so no browser or desktop.

Websites do the same thing. Example: openreplay.com

Using a browser is still better because users have more agency. But switching to the web variant isn’t a magic bullet on this front.

Interesting. I think most users would assume they’re talking to other adults and might change their language or behavior if they thought they were conversing with children

Age is anything but arbitrary from a law perspective. With these laws there is no expectation of privacy in regards to age. I’d argue there never was, it was just poorly enforced and got normalized

I feel like we need a less invasive form of age verification

Yep. Probably a billion dollar idea if you can execute it properly. These laws are spurring competition

I think most peoples’ facial data is already for sale and breachable/leakable

Correct, I don’t really want 12-year-olds commenting here either. Do you? Genuine question

Though Lemmy instances are largely public. You don’t need an account to view their contents. So that’s pretty different from Discord

For the record, I do think the laws will apply to Lemmy instances

That’s a false dichotomy. Parents can and should protect children. Social media sites can and should protect children. It’s in the social interest. Parents don’t have control over every device a child has access to. Firewalls at schools and libraries are often lackluster

I have kids too. I’m not singling out Discord here, just pointing out they’re trying to follow the law.

Young kids and social media are inherently a bad mix. Primarily because it promotes antisocial behaviors and they cannot effectively comprehend and consent to the privacy polices and TOS. Hence why adults need to be involved in account creation.

The app will ask users to scan their face through a computer or smartphone webcam; alternatively, they can scan a driver’s license or other form of ID.

comes in response to laws passed in those countries that place guardrails on youth access to online platforms.

Personally this sounds pretty reasonable. I don’t want young children on there. Any expectation of anonymity on Discord, a social network, is not warranted. Ask any number of users who’ve been prosecuted based on evidence turned over by Discord. It’s also US-based

They’re open source, so for technical issues you can open an issue on GitHub

If you have a custom domain Tuta is way better than Proton. It’s unlimited addresses.

Yep. I also think having a dedicated screen is much better than opening a phone app all the time, especially when it comes to babysitting and traveling.

Yes, I use it and generally like it. Their app is a little buggy, but they have email support and accept bug reports on GitHub. This is helpful for finding out what other users are seeing. It’s a small dev team with frequent releases

I’m not sure what you mean. The “overhead” is putting your different logins into a password manager, no?

That’s correct. You get better export tools with Google compared to Proton. Because of this alone I’d recommend not storing your important data with Proton

I understand your point and I support & contribute to FOSS. But I was specifically addressing the claim that Telegram reads all messages and sells them to the highest bidder. They don’t currently, unless someone can point me towards a credible source

I’ve used Telegram for years and never seen an ad. Their Privacy Policy says ads aren’t based on messages

Unlike other services, we don’t use your data for ad targeting or other commercial purposes. Telegram only stores the information it needs to function as a secure and feature-rich cloud service.

Telegram offers a tool for advertisers to promote their messages in public one-to-many channels, but these sponsored messages are based solely on the topic of the public channels in which they are shown. No user data is mined or analyzed to display ads or sponsored messages.

On the Orion forums their staff consistently bullies people around

NewPipe is only on Android, no?

A simple search will tell you a ton of people here use GrapheneOS and other custom ROMs. Are you karma farming?

Odysee is not a YouTube front end, is a hot spring for hate content and misinformation, was financially mismanaged, and was recently sold for parts to a blockchain company whose primary goal is bolstering its own blockchain

Honestly if you want real financial privacy, the best thing to use is {insert cryptocurrency that I’m heavily financially invested in}

It must be the former because I have the latter enabled and still see them

This needs more contributors FYI. There’s a ton of issues and feature requests

because the expectation with screenshot software is that it doesn’t add any metadata

I’m not sure where you got that idea but I assume the opposite. Many devices add metadata by default

I was under the impression they only show bands when the number of people with the same title is low

I don’t recommend MySudo because it requires a Google account to subscribe

I have Incogni and they have a “compliance score” for each. I highly doubt any of it is manual (besides initial research & setup) considering there’s 120+ brokers listed on my dashboard and they send follow-up and re-requests when necessary

The website is still under development

Libredirect can redirect to other front-ends automatically for you.