Proton’s a good alternative.
There’s some confused allegations of them being MAGA Facists. But it’s a combination of misunderstanding and misrepresentation.

It’s just another affiliate link. Like many companies offer, anyone can sign up with their “Partnership Program” and generate an affiliate link to get a kickback on new signups. This isn’t a specific sponsorship or direct advertising deal that Proton sought out or directly paid for.

Proton offers 3 kinds of Partnerships.

• Channel Partners: Resellers basically. If you want to offer email service to your customers, you can do so through Proton. You have to communicate directly with Proton people to set this up.
• Influences: These are are traditional sponsorships and advertisement arrangements. Again, you need to communicate with a real person for this.
• Affiliate Links: Open to anyone really. All you have to do is fill out an online form. That’s all it takes to get a link that pays you a kickback for any signups through that link. They do have an “approval” process and have stated they’re working on making the vetting process more through. Especially for companies in countries with languages they don’t directly have native speakers.

These “SCANDALS” are just people signing up for affiliate links and then promoting them.

THAT makes sense!
Market manipulation

I genuinely don’t understand why anyone would put money behind this. I thought it insane when Musk first mentioned it. Can someone explain a single advantage of a space based data center? Even if it’s not worth spending this kind of money on.

Privacy is about activity.
Anonymity is about identity.
Security is about ensuring the other two.

I would say: Privacy is everyone seeing you come and go from a house with no windows.
Anonymity is when you’re covered head to toe when you come and go. So nobody know who lives there.
Security is a measure of how good your locks and coveralls are.

Real world examples: Going to a protest with a mask is anonymous, in public.
Sessions with your court appointed therapist are private, not anonymous.

So many people conflate privacy with anonymity.
They’re largely unrelated.

Short answer is no. All new cars do it. Dealers can’t disable it. It is what it is.

There are a few niche cars that don’t have all the tracking cruft, good luck getting one.

Yes there is also the subset of people who’ve thought about it, and might tell a pollster, but avoid pollsters if at all possible.

That’s how many are willing to admit it to a pollster, which is a subset of who thought about it. We don’t know how big the larger set is.

They’re old. They’re slow to adapt to paradigm shifts.
They were also lied to, and paid lots of money by these companies.

Do you people trust companies with passkeys?

Not sure what you mean. Passkeys are vastly better than passwords. Who are you giving you’re passkeys to, that you’re worried about trusting them? Do you mean trusting they’ll work, and you won’t be locked out of your account?

At this point I was assuming closed circut were technically all IP cameras, just running on their own isolated network, one not accessible from the internet.

I still don’t know what you mean. Who is opting-out of what exactly?

Oh yah. Closed circuit only. No need for them to be online.

But what do you mean opt-out? That’s not really a practical option. You can’t have the cameras shut off while you’re in the dayroom with everyone else.

They’re not allowed? That sucks.

I’ve worked in two facilities with autistic kids. And cameras are important when things go wrong in care facilities. I’ve seen people rightfully fired, and I was protected twice after accusations, because there was video of the incident.

I’m all for privacy in general. But in caregiving facilities, they are a necessary safety tool for both clients and staff.

Better simply “You’re Leaking”

That’s no fun

What other terms could they use?

• Vulnerable
• Exposed
• In Danger
• At Risk
• Potentially Compromised
• Unmasked
• Uncovered
• Unhidden
• Discoverable
• Unpresentable
• Uncouth
• Unbecoming
• Indecarous (might be my favorite now)
• Indecent
• Immodest
• …

Mistakes like this are proof it wasn’t written by AI

Electricity too