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Related to https://lemmy.zip/post/30262747 post

Original posts from @protonprivacy@mastodon.social are deleted and archive.org archived copies were also purged.

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[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm guessing this happened after Yen said that he'd stop propagating his personal political views via Proton's official accounts? It seems to be a copy-and-paste of what he posted on Reddit.

While I chose Proton over Mulvad given the benefits of port forwarding for torrenting, even port forwarding isn't worth funding the propagation of far-right propaganda.

People can argue all they want in favor of him just supporting whichever party passes pro-privacy legislation (won't be the republicans; makes me wonder if Yen supports state PornHub bans out of the financial interest of boosting VPN sales...), but ignoring social issues in the process makes his 'neutrality' reminiscent of opportunistic nazi sympathizers in Switzerland during World War II...

[–] butternuts@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

An alternative to using a VPN as your "privacy shield" could be the I2P network https://lemmy.world/post/19661215

I don't torrent so this may not be ideal.

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Very few torrents make use of I2P as far as I know, given that people have to specifically enable it when using a torrent client such as qBittorrent.

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

archive.org archived copies were also purged

What does this mean? That can happen??

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They often remove archived copies on request or even block pages from being archived at all.

[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is just dumb. Watch the Republicans ban VPNs and erode his business while he's busy licking boots.

archive.org archived copies were also purged

Fedi-Archive when?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you for posting here!