Grumpy old software architect and engineer. Usability and accessibility advocate. Makes software better. I made Publizjr, Ged2Dendro, and currently work on UmpireDB.
My children’s schools and after-school extracurricular clubs (including ones offered by the local police department) still are held hostage by Alphabet, forcing me to also maintain an account with them. But… I don’t need to use it for anything else.
Remember that the Council is meant to protect and enable trade. They only care about citizens for submitting them to exploitation.
If you discuss “the EU” you have to distinguish between Council and Parliament. The Council has no obligation to act according to the Parliament’s wishes. They are not a democracy.
I’ve used both ProtonMail and MailFence for years. I pay for my MailFence account, and use a free ProtonMail account.
For my needs, the free services ProtonMail offers suffice. Their encryption seems OK, I don’t store my files with them, and I don’t use their calendar or their a.i. chatbot.
The only reason I pay for MailFence is so I can have SMTP access via a separate email client app. I guess paying for their services also gives more guarantees that my email address will be available longer. I care about the address I have with MailFence - not so much about the one I have with ProtonMail. If that changes, I’ll probably start paying for a professional account.
Recently ProtonMail changed the interface of their iOS mobile app. It now is harder to sign out. I guess that’s in an effort to push for more paid accounts. It’s jarring conduct coming from a company that claimed they went non-profit. Clearly they seek profit.
ProtonMail also continues to email me advertisements about their own services. MailFence never has done that. Not once. In fact I had to look up how to transfer to a paid account.
Both services are fairly easy to operate and fairly user-friendly.
You can create as many free email accounts with ProtonMail as you like.
Proton now is a non-profit but their employees still need salary. Throw them a couple bucks if you like their service.
Do that with anyone whose services you enjoy. That’s how you help them survive.
Remember that the commission is a trade pact, meant to increase profit. They would revoke citizens’ rights in a heartbeat if they could.
Turn them into an LLM cluster.
You have my thanks. I asked my spouse to set up a recurring donation.
Sweet. I’m not sure in what country a dev lives to accept that low of a payment, for I couldn’t afford my rent off of that.
But LinkSheet isn’t a browser, is it? Isn’t it just a helper app that lets us decide which browser to use ad hoc?
But still based on Chromium? Is that project in itself trustworthy?
Some of us don’t live online, friend. And if that was a joke, count me oblivious lol
No, I don’t think that’s how it works. Regardless of what paper you feed it, the printer will stamp it with its unique yellow dots pattern.
Remember their goal is profit, and their choices will make sense.
Bad, evil, and pandering sense.