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[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 months ago

More suspicious than an American commercial company offering the services? Proton is not a commercial company, they really do not need to make money with their services, all they charge you is the use of servers and hosts based on a certain amount of data that you claim, in the VPN they are one of the few that offer you a use of unlimited data with a more than acceptable speed in the free version, without ads, logs and military-level encryption, the only thing is a limited number of countries in the free version (23 server in three countries).

The same with Mail or the cloud service, where space is naturally limited in the free account, but privacy is the same as in the premium account at a very high level. If you don't trust it, you are also free to host the services yourself, since they are all OpenSource.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

I'm pretty sure they were being sarcastic.

[-] Peter_Arbeitslos@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

Sounds like a gigantic honeypot. To good to be true, it can’t be that I finally found someone I can trust, or can it?

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

You can, every product of a company which are not profit centered apart being OpenSource, by definition is way more trustworth than proprietary soft of big US companies. Proton services made it's fame because of its known reliability since a lot of years.

[-] nephs@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 months ago

As if Gmail or Outlook were any better?

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