It took them this long to notice?

Pathetic

complaining about one (1) physical ad, placed in a thematically adequate place in a non-obtrusive way

It’s not as if we (and they) didn’t know before. UK did Brexit.

That, too. I’m happy costing money to Proton as a free tier user using the mail as an inbox, but as an actually usable storage and catalogue of incoming mail? It’s a disaster.

Things would be much easier doable if the IMAP bridge was available to the free tier.

It’s not possible to really anonymize whichever option if it has to be used repeatedly enough that a pattern is formed, in particular for cash. That’s why one-time options are so important: because, given enough time, the past is in the past.

Not to mention that the bitcoin option means having to buy into the scams and felonies that is crypto in the first place.

As for lifetime subscriptions being “hard to properly price”, I don’t see why Proton can’t consult with SDF on the matter. SDF offers a multitude of services of noticeably high involvement – heck you get shell on their servers – so I don’t see how routing a tun/tap interface goes much more difficult than that.

The other was the person using a personally identifiable payment method, although I’m not familiar with Proton’s policies on retaining that data.

There is no circumstance under which Proton should have kept this data, assuming the account was old enough. Sure, you can say “credit” but I can just as well say that if Proton sells its business on the idea of keeping data secure or at as-low risk as possible, then they should offer lifetime / one-time payment options so that the payment information would have expired already or at least would not be renewed forever.

And don’t tell me that doesn’t exist. I’m a user of SDF. They offer such plan.

And as socialists/anti-fascists we also have orders of magnitude less money to same-put our mouths on.

It’s difficult for something to be a smear campaign against Proton when the behaviour of Proton is not only publicly documented, but doubled down upon. When the CEO spoke in favour of Trumpism, that’s exactly what the board did, instead of kicking the CEO out. And that’s just the low-hanging fruit.

There’s a saying. When people show you how evil they are, believe them.