That smokescreen argument makes a lot of sense.

I don’t think it does. Remember the Crowdstrike blunder? Remember how many people blamed Windows?

People don’t know or care who is managing your security.

Some people believe open-source tools to be weaker since all the code is there for malicious actors to exploit.

It could never apply to ad blockers.

I mean it certainly could if it was deemed so broad as “Honey was manipulating affiliate links”, but I don’t think it would.

and Honey added their tracking.”

The key point they were making is that uBO isn’t adding their own affiliate links and stealing revenue they haven’t earned, unlike Paypal.

They seem to be doing far more of them lately.

unless they say otherwise later

This is my hope. If not because he’s wrong, then because it’s just plain stupid for him to get involved in such a capacity.

Let’s try not to miss the forest for the trees here. Proton has done an incredible amount of work in the privacy realm over the last decade. And the product hasn’t changed. Would be a shame to throw all that away because the CEO has some shitty opinions about who is responsible for that. Andy is not a tech billionaire.

True story:

When I was a kid I wrote a review for Dexter’s Laboratory on the internet. I wrote “I think the show fuckin sucks!”. I don’t know why. Again, I was like 10. AOL ratted me out to my parents somehow and I got banned from the dial-up for a week.

Their unique selling point is having a suite of integrated privacy products under a single moderately-priced subscription.

OpenAI has taught me that the non-profit stuff is meaningless.

I love how ambiguous they’re being, because “lawmakers are proposing regulations that protect consumers from our invasive surveillance which maintains our monopoly on advertising so we can charge you more money” just doesn’t have that same ring to it.

I mean for most people there are lots of variables here. You have to pick and choose your battles. This is the entire concept of The Good Place TV show.

The only people that are 100% “good” are living in a fuckin yurt.

I mean I always use GoG, if given the option. But there’s almost always no GoG option. Publishers want some form of DRM.

Yes I’m sure he’ll crack down hard on all the tech companies that are giving him millions of dollars and kissing his feet…

What a moron.

Some people may leave our platforms for virtue signaling

anyone who quits Meta is ‘virtue signaling’

These are not the same thing. Just a blatant lie.

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This isn’t the first time he has come out in support of privacy and I really don’t understand it.

Yeah, I don’t have that problem, because I just don’t follow those sorts of accounts but popping over to the search column also coincidentally throws you into the “trending” posts and holy balls.

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