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  • Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What’s so bad about proton, and is there alternatives to all of their services?byWolvenSpectre@lemmy.caEnglish
    16 days

    Three things.

    • There was a legal situation years back and the Swiss Corporation was approached over the contents they held for a customer in France(IIRC) and some of the French people reported that when they complied that Proton had given them Everything they had on him, which wasn’t true, all they gave was the metadata that was in the clear already. Some of the news sources, including the first few I saw on it, had the French framing and reported it as such. A privacy company just giving up a users data like that left a bad taste in peoples mouths, and it turns out only some of the original reports corrected the false narrative and just pulled the story down. I had to personally eat crow on that one with more than a few people.
    • A founder and C-Suite member of the company personally supported the Trump Administration several times allegedly without discussing it with his more centrist and left leaning collogues. Proton as an organization did not yeet him out over that, but recent ICE and military activity did not change his mind.
    • Proton, and many other privacy first services are offering common services for free but with limits that no long term Google, Yahoo, or Apple Mail/Outlook user can operate in, let alone for all their services, and their first paid tier is also too anemic for shared storage, so you are stuck either deleting your content or paying for their highest paid package. This for apps that are threadbare as instead of flushing out the featureset they have allegedly focused on putting out new products more often. This isn’t that popular.
  • Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How bad is only drinking soda?byWolvenSpectre@lemmy.caEnglish
    2 months

    Its not good. Caffeinated sodas are a diathetic and it will pull water out of your system. Check out ChubbyEmu’s Channel on YouTube for the explanation. If you have been drinking exclusively sodas since a child with no water in take you could be damaging your liver and kidneys. Also I would strongly suggest taking a muti-vitimin daily. Most diet sodas make it harder for you to absorb certain nutrients like folic acid and IIRC B-12.

    If you were one of the people that Aspartame is an issue you would know it by know because almost every time you drank soda you would have a headache. You are probably getting more of them just from the dehydration.

    Then there are the dental issues. I don’t care how old you are, start using sensodyne and look at having your teeth sealed. Your dentist can do wonders that were not possible 15 years ago, but that will give you issues.

    Now a while back there was a thing about sodas and diet sodas raising your risk of Cancer but you would have to drink 6L+ a day. Lower amounts are believed to actually fight against cancer cells in their early stages.