The same bad actors have muddied the lines through limiting online discourse and pushing their message consistently enough to drag some well meaning, but lacking in critical thinking skills, people to join the cause.
Like algorithms for social media, they’ll feed you little bits that become normalized, and sudde ly the stuff that was crazy 5 years ago seems tame and pointless to fight against now.
Interesting that I just saw comnents the other day espousing Proton. Shame to see it go this direction based on those comments, but now I consider it could always have been a paid shill as corporations learn to mimic grassroot campaigns to control messages and set narratives. It’d be nice to see laws moving in that direction.
Funny how hearing a message associating someone with a movement, true or not, swayed your opinion. Almost as if it proves my point.
Because people with money told the actors they hire to pretend to inform you of current events to only say that he’s bad because he represents a threat to their class.
I don’t have a lot of sympathy for any of the idiots that buy these idiotic things.
Ubisoft directors might need to become comfortable hiding quietly in dark attics when the revolution comes.
Ever play Plague Inc? The secret to winning is to not become deadly until you’ve already become engrained and established throughout society. Then you add the deadly features once you’re too deep in.
Don’t let the cancer establish itself as something innocent. The owner of the platform WILL take any opportunity to seize control of the media so it can seize control of the message.
You’ll have to compete in a saturated market full of people underpaying for a service. If you produce quality work, hopefully you can rise above the masses.
Have you considered trying the gig economy and picking up contracts on websites like Fiverr as a freelancer?
Why would a company dedicated to privacy concerns even entertain connecting to Google? I would imagine the customers using Proton would leave services that don’t value privacy, so why is it being invited back in? Seems like Proton may be changing which customers they value while holding onto name recognition. Enshitification continues.
Sounds like a shady deal with Alphabet for a financially struggling company that may or may not have a board which decided they liked money better than their customers one day.
Don’t let people tell you that “everything’s fine, don’t jump to conclusions”. I have no idea who that is or if they have a stake in this outside or a random Lemmy user, but I would imagine a lot of people would have a financial or other interest in ensuring the public continues to think Proton is safe and private.
Be willing to question and verify. Don’t be complacent.