Comment by Calwestjobs

Using percentages is illegitimate. It's frog boiling.

Governments lean on large providers like Microsoft to not implement strong technological privacy protections because they want to invade everyone's privacy, and those companies go along because they want to get government contracts or curry favor with government regulators, or because they want to invade your privacy themselves.

Then anyone privacy-conscious abandons them before any abuses are revealed because they've seen this movie before and know what's coming next. But that includes criminal organizations, so now for a transient period of time the competing services that still protect privacy have a disproportionate number of criminals. This is then used as an excuse to shut them down or force them to stop protecting anyone's privacy.

That's when the real abuses start, because the privacy-protecting services have been suppressed as "only used by criminals" and once the general public has lost the ability to switch, there is no longer competitive pressure on the incumbents to not betray their now-captive user base.

You can try to prevent this by getting people to switch to the privacy-protecting services ahead of time, but that doesn't mean it's reasonable to accept the consent-manufacturing tactic as legitimate either.

yet it has nothing to do with Proton and everything to do with encryption and the reason why you hear the name Proton is because they open their mouth

> in current situation where more than 1 200 000 accounts there are

Both evidence and a basis for comparison (total number of accounts) are necessary before this claim is worth considering.

Maintaining democracy during peace time is easy. During war time it’s hard.

It’s also exactly the time where we should do work our hardest to maintain democracy.

I would recommend reading the Lincoln letter to William H. Herndon dated Feb. 15. 1848