As another person said, why put all or a lot of your eggs in one basket (Proton)? To me the value in switching away from big tech is that I can deversify my services.

I got bored when I was in early college. I already held leftest views and didn’t love a lot of what Google and other big tech platforms where doing. I started with Proton but honestly mainly due to there lack of even decent Linux support changed over to Tuta. I feel lucky that I did all of this about a year and a half ago so just before they shoved AI in everything.

If your wanting to switch for privacy reasons I would go for a Pixel and put a custom ROM on it.

Is there a reason you are tied to the idea of it being a flagship? I’ve been using the A series of Pixels forever and love them.

I do really like E2EE but why do I need it in everything?

If I want to talk to someone I would rather them message me on Signal or something that I trust more.

This is why I don’t like the idea of a technology built to track me in such a public way. Yes my phone does with cell towers but at least it generally is harder to get.

I also hate that there is never an option to opt out of this service either.

I can very much agree with this. Like getting rid of Instagram and Tiktok has done a lot to help time not disappear in the same way.

I do agree it’s not as pretty as Proton but the encryption once it reaches your account is much better and I feel like they are more upfront about what they are and aren’t. Really my main grype with them is there lack of GPG support.

Government Accepts Bribes and Delays Policy

So after sending them arms for 2 years we decide to call it a genocide. So like what the western world as done for most genocides.

Not collect data that can identify people. Yes you have to operate within the law BUT you can avoid collecting data that identifies people. Also you can explain what data you collect and not pretend to be perfect.

I’ve wondered if you could even if it was slowly build up a database of traffic infromation and have it be an opt in feature. Like I know in general in my city when things get busiser so I know when to avoid certain parts.

I personally use Mullvad and find it to be great with there view on privacy and sense I can create a new “account” anytime I want.

I use Tuta but it’s what convinced me to buy a domain. So if/when I switch providers the majority of contects will not notice.

This makes me so happy I’m using Graphine OS. Also the entire idea that there “not storing my history” I don’t trust them. They have already been sued multiple times over keeping ingogneto data.

I think it’s mainly two things:

• people fear reverse phone numbers look up tools more then the equivalent tools for social media.
• It’s viewed as less replaceable then just blocking somone on social media

I don’t really agree with either of these but it is what seems to be common.

The unproven claims is the key part here. Also the point of “terminating an account would punish every user in a household” is important as well.

You can fine someone for piracy if you want. As long as they have the standard legal protections. But cutting access is excessive.

I can’t tell you if you should or not. I can tell you I DO NOT have it enabled and mapping service work just fine. Also I would recommend using something like CoMaps and not Google Maps.

Cars get damaged, it’s part of USING a GOD DAMN CAR. To me if something is damge that is invisible to a normal human eye and doesn’t impact the function of it, it’s part of renting cars.

First everyone always does. Second there is always a chance you do want to hide with a regime change.