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Left: People that can't selfhost
Right: People that have never heard of it
Real privacy starts when you check app permissions and stop giving flashlight apps your location.
Me, who literally is posting this reply from his self-hosted server: "Buncha noobs, the two of ya"
In guessing the left is Proton but those icons are about as bad as googles.
They might have actually somehow managed to come up with worse logos than Google uses. I assume the top one is an email app, the bottom left is a file manager, and bottom centre is a password manager? But I'm less than certain about those, and everything else is a complete mystery.
From top left to bottom right, horizontal first:
- Password Manager
- Calendar
- VPN
- Drive
- Authenticator
- Mascot for their LLM
The only ones that are a bit ambiguous are the Password Manager and the VPN logos imo
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Napkins
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Square turned sideways
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Square not turned sideways
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Triangle
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Folder
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Half-eaten donut hanging on a doorknob
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Cat
How was I supposed to infer the meaning of those?
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Its amazing, in an era where our phones have higher res than monitors did 20 years ago, icons have less detail.
Like show a damn calendar for the calendar icon. Hell, the ANSI emoji would be better. 📆
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It's hilarious that OP thought going full in o proton is the other end of the "I love privacy" spectrum. How the fuck are you here on lemmy and that uneducated and ignorant on all this? These are two people a couple of steps away from each other on one end, not even close to what the meme actually is. I wouldn't be surprised at all if this was rage bait, because it's dumb enough to be that. Or a proton shill, which definitely exists here.
This was posted by Proton on Proton subreddit, so yeah, it's an ad.
I don't trust proton either
The company could flip any time but for now their products are pretty good as a google alternative. I use the calendar, mail, cloud, contacts and vpn app and have zero complaints. Plus they couldn't access any of my data if they wanted to.
they couldn’t access any of my data if they wanted to.
I am not so sure that's true
The thing is, it's not true about any E2E encryption where all parts of the codebase are controlled by the company.
It could be as simple as updating their website to send your password to them in plain text while logging in, now the encryption is useless as they would have your password.
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I want another person with neck beard disgusted by both of them using Tor, I2P, Qubes, and GrapheneOS
...t-that's us
I just wish we could find each other irl. I'm the tin foil privacy nerd everywhere I go.
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Replace all the icons on her side with just a thought bubble:
.oO( BRUH. LEAVE ME ALONE! )
We all know privacy is purple, we just can't agree on the exact shade.
This meme format is sexist. Why is it always always always the woman who has the negative side?
You would have to be terminally online to be upset over something this trivial
we all are,
I think it's a fair point. Anyone could be either person so no one instance of this is directly offensive, but I agree memes like this seem to routinely put down women.
I don't think op is pissing and shitting and crying over it, there's just no place to talk about it other than the meme itself. Anyone could criticise your comment in the same way, and it's just a strawman argument.
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Third party service run by corpos who pinky promise not to harvest any of your data
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In-app tool that doesn't cache your client-side data
Is the woman the negative side on this?
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No matter who someone is, don't give them all of your personal property.
I use Protonmail from Proton. That's it.
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Both aren't really private. Both is a for-profit company claiming it to be private.
Proton is a non-profit.
No. Proton is a for profit company whose largest shareholder is a non profit foundation. As is written right in your linked post. The foundation is not the company.
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For-profit company and private are not mutually exclusive though. Mullvad VPN for example is ~~as much~~ a for-profit company ~~as~~ unlike proton which is nonprofit, and arguably also one of the most private VPN services available.
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Proton lol. You're such a joker
Design brief: Make them look like the google suite but purple. The harder it is to work out what the app does from the logo, the better.
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privacy
is a webapp
???
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