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But… basically every email provider or hosting service is legally obliged to give the information they collect to the government. It’s not like this is exclusive to Proton in any way whatsoever. If anything, subpoenas are evidence Proton tell the truth and do at least stop themselves from having most of the important data so they can’t give it away.

Real life.

Is not.

A fucking.

Trolley problem.

You are actually allowed to break the car and turn off the power.

To be honest, it’s almost certainly reworded or poorly translated from whatever he originally said.

It definitely wouldn’t be impossible to counter, but it would be difficult. I don’t really doubt that effective ad-blocking to server-side injections would appear sooner or later.

I’ll never understand how people are like “okay I agree to a bit of brainwashing in exchange for watching this :)”

I do my best to actively work at not buying anything I see advertised. Often there’s little choice, but I like to think successfully showing me ads is a net negative to the company.

This isn’t down to you - A good percentage of modern day labour positions are absolutely soul-crushing, other employees tend to only survive it via years of practice deadening their own souls. I once got promoted and then quit my job one month later because dealing with management types absolutely ruined me, it took three weeks before I realised I was drinking every day just to survive. Thankfully I was in a vaguely financially able position to leave that job.

Whatever you decide to do, I hope you do what’s best to take care of yourself Please be assured that we are proud to have you as a comrade.

I didn’t realise Linus still wielded this kind of power. That’s kinda rad, I like it.