They’re not hacktivists, they’re just assholes.

Proton Drive Linux desktop client and system integration for Calendar on Android are the main ones I remember.

Outrage narrative? Are you talking about me, or you?

Are you actually a Proton user, or you just here to shitpost? Because there are features that were promised years ago and then forgotten about, because they aren’t trendy enough.

Is a paying customer not allowed to complain that they waste their time on chasing the next popular thing, instead of, I dunno, delivering important features promised years ago?

I think making it an opt-out is sensible

Why? I’m not in the business of making ad companies’ jobs easier.

Do you mean grammar-wise, or special operators?

That’s a pretty damn big “oversight” for a company claiming to have privacy as one of their main selling points…

There’s no reason an app should be more trustworthy than the email.
It’s pretty standard for scummy companies to make the process as annoying as possible.

They already said they don’t want to.

They asked you to install the app on purpose, in hopes that you’ll decide it’s too much hassle and decide not to delete the account.

Wine always reports itself as some version of Windows. Mostly, it doesn’t really matter.

Which is made by the same company (Google owns Fitbit), so?

Sure, the title sounds like clickbait, but the point is: if a big enough player passes these laws, then the other countries may follow.