This has been argued over for a long time now. They routinely fight against orders from foreign governments (foreign to Switzerland). When one case comes along and the Swiss government actually says they need the information, and the courts say Proton has to abide, they finally do. This somehow negates every other time the government has come knocking and been told to fuck off? They tried, the courts said they had to do it, so they did. If they didn’t, the service would be gone now.

Let’s go bowling!

They use it to call you up on the weekends to see if you want to come hang out.

Exactly. We are wired to see patterns and coincidences as being outliers, so mix that with a little brain worms and paranoia and boom

I’m gonna start by saying Twitter doesn’t respect your privacy, this we all should know. However, I don’t think this is what you think.

You’re reading an RSS feed that Linux Handbook publishes to. They published something and likely published it elsewhere at the same (or similar) times. It shows up in your feed, and you’re reading it. At the same time, their post on Twitter has propagated to the point where followers are being notified and the algorithm is sending notifications to people that might be interested in it. You get a notification from Twitter. Panik

It’s just a coincidence, and being skeptical has rotted your brain. Sometimes shit do just be like that. Everyone in privacy oriented communities has had this happen at some point, and because of how we think we end up feeling like it’s malicious.

All good, just wanted to make sure since it wasn’t clear

Check the email headers. You can spoof a sender address