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

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[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

archive.org archived copies were also purged

What does this mean? That can happen??

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Vinstaal0@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

They don’t have that power even if they seem to think so

archive.org archived copies were also purged

Fedi-Archive when?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Thank you for posting here!