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so now proton completely blocking account creation through their onion adress? I have standard protection, javascript enabled. Time to swith for those who use this service as they are ditching tor and switzerland?

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[โ€“] meta4@retrolemmy.com 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Seems a fair question to ask someone who makes a post to direct people away from a service under the presumption that they were trying to use it, only to find in the comments that they already use a different service that they not only enjoy, but are happy to freely advertise for.

Also, your justification for their lack of crypto payments is that they use a payment system they designed themselves, which I find funny since most of the complaints I see about Proton (granted, not yours) is the unverifiability of their operations, leaning on "Just trust me, bro." which is the same thing as this site's payment processing system. ๐Ÿคญ

[โ€“] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

it's not a fair question people can use multiple email providers, especially a privacy conscious person would know that. proton logs your ip and gives it to the police when they ask, without warrent

[โ€“] meta4@retrolemmy.com 2 points 37 minutes ago

They had a warrant.

It's okay to have privacy concerns regarding that, but don't make shit up to make it sound worse than it was.

[โ€“] cookie019@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Did you have so much free time to criticise me unstead of doing something important? Such a good decision.

[โ€“] meta4@retrolemmy.com 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Instead of being so defensive about it you could just answer the question.. Did you have so much free time you decided to try signing up for a service you had no intention of using just so you could complain about it?

[โ€“] cookie019@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
  1. You don't know if I signed up for posteo after or before tryibg with proton.

  2. You are blocked now for offrnsive behaviour and insinuations about me.

Have a good day bro, LOL

[โ€“] meta4@retrolemmy.com 2 points 45 minutes ago
  1. Of course not, because you refuse to answer a simple question.

  2. Just because you were offended doesn't mean I was being offensive. Learn the difference, kid.