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At best, a thinly veiled advertisement…
I mean, what else does anyone expect? The company which makes my cast iron skillet, which I love, writes blog posts about recipes for cast iron skillets, and always adds links to their products.
I’ve always hated this argument: “Everyone else is a piece of trash too, so we should accept the current state of everyone acting like garbage because they want to make money!”
Why is it trash for a business to write articles about how they’re beneficial to you and how to use them?
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Because they’re using a free platform (Lemmy) to post an advertisement…
Without paying advertisement money? – That’s just the first one.
Second one is all advertisements posted in communities that are meant for organic discussion is jarring and serves to attempt to brand-brainwash anyone who runs across it?
Corporations need to stay out of sites like this and let people talk amongst themselves and make suggestions - basically by posting it here, they’re operating an SEO scheme and using everyone here as their pawn.
You’ve been inundated with this shit for so long, you’re now not only blind to it, but making excuses for its existence.
testeronious is Proton’s official Lemmy account?
No. The team have official handles and ourselves, Volunteer mods, as in reddit. But that user is just a user AFAIK.
Why would it matter if it was an official or unofficial account? This whole subforum is literally an advertisement. Look at the mod list. “ProtonPrivacy” right there…
And the title of the post is “5 skiff alternatives” where they go…“us, us, us, us again, and oh there’s this other guy”
they’re using a free platform to post and advertisement
corporations need to stay out of sites like this
So they didn’t actually post anything here and normal people are posting the article themselves, which is exactly what you said you think should happen.
I mean I totally understood why they chose to give themselves an advertisement but I would still like it if they gave alternatives like tutanota, anon addy, mullvad. Even with those good alternatives, I still go with proton because the unlimited plan is pretty fair and I like the cohesiveness of everything.
I mean, standard notes at least is not one of their products.
Thinly veiled? The link is proton.me lol
I mean, they make it sound like they’re going to suggest 5 DIFFERENT services and they just go… “Proton, proton, proton, proton, proton”.
So yeah. Thinly. Like, skin of your teeth thin.
There’s Standard Notes and SimpleLogin too. That’s 2/5. But my point was rather that it’s shit on their own site, I don’t think they’re pretending it’s anything other than advert.
SimpleLogin is theirs.
SimpleLogin is the product of Proton AG, registered in Switzerland under number CHE-354.686.492.
Oh, I didn’t know that. Do they also own Standard Notes?
Not that I’m aware of. If they have a stake in it, it’s not listed anywhere publicly.
No, it’s not. An awesome product BTW, IMHO.
You’re starting to sound a little desperate there Proton, maybe dial it back notch
Ew go away
Have you considered unsubscribing from the community?
The world is not my echo chamber. I am allowed to dislike something without eliminating information just because my opinion differs than you. That doesn’t mean i should alienate communities based on that.
