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Not a fan of the format of the essay. Short sentences. Repetition. Not normal language — punctuated fragments.

Ironically, I ran this AI-generated post through AI to summarize and isolate the claims of fact. TLDR: The complaint is largely about Proton Meet, which is hosted by a US-based company and is underpinned by a lot of US-hosted companies. Other core Proton services are not part of the complaints, though it's noted that sometimes Proton has given up user metadata from US court orders (such as payment and contact info, not actual VPN or email contents).

I may be downvoted for acknowledging I used AI to help add context with my comment, but the essay was truly painful to try to read after a few paragraphs.

[osmsucks]

Thank you. I also found it exhausting to read so many short sentences that just assert little pieces of information without saying anything of substance.

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>Other core Proton services are not part of the complaints, though it's noted that sometimes Proton has given up user metadata from US court orders (such as payment and contact info, not actual VPN or email contents).

Nah, later in it makes a bunch of spurious claims about how it's theoretically possible to infer that you used/downloaded/paid for protonmail, therefore it's not as "private" as promised. The problem with that claim is that most people don't expect their usage of the app to be private. After all, if you're using protonmail, have a @protonmail.com address, and have a payment to protonmail in your bank statement,can you really reasonably expect the fact you're using protonmail to be kept private? Complaining about this makes as much sense as complaining that Signal isn't private because it doesn't operate off Tor, and cops can figure out you have it installed through the notification icons on your lockscreen.

The part about livekit's privacy policy deserves attention, but the rest of the article seems like mostly AI generated slop to so the author can make a broader claim about how proton isn't private.