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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    2 months ago

    I don’t think it’s a ridiculous idea? Children these days – I’d assume – need an email address at an increasingly younger age. So you pay $1 to get an indefinite voucher for that address – which might actually be worthwhile to some if their child’s name is somewhat common and the full name is available today without a bullshit string of numbers at the end.

    Granted there’s no guarantee Proton will be around in e.g. 8 years, but so far, they seem to be doing reasonably well, and $1 is, like, the price of an apple.

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    2 months ago

    I’ll register xXx_sNiPeRbOy_69_xXx@protonmail.com just in case my kid becomes a gamer.

  • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Just buy a domain with your surname and call it a day. Then you can have all the email addresses you want

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Literally what is the point of this besides inducing users into expanding their future userbase? This is like the Simpsons spoof where the army gets elementary school kids to pre-enlist.

    My first ever email is my first name that I lucked out on a very big domain and aside from the showoff of looking cool, it has been utterly destroyed by spam and people with the same name putting in a dummy email for whatever form they fill out.

    So unless you want your kid to have some oddly specific and famous email address, there is zero difference in just making one when you need to.

    Also:

    Stronger legal protection

    Your data is safeguarded under Switzerland’s strict privacy laws, some of the strongest in the world.

    What a joke bruh. Piratebay had better OPSEC than these fed sucking morons, and they had their servers constantly seized after the USA got involved.

    Proton folds under zero pressure when they so much as so get a hint of a warrant. Don’t even jump in here with a “Privacy is not Anonymity” and “muh Swiss laws” response. They specifically advertised such capability until the government came after them, and then only changed their policy after assisting them in providing access logs and fingerprint data for that french climate activist.

    They know their marketing material makes it sound much better than it really is, and they know that no one reads the fine print. Metadata not being protected is a critical difference, and it’s how a solid chunk of the NSA’s data collection schemes function.

    Imagine for a moment that you started an Anti-Google campaign and happened to have a protonmail account. They could just lobby the US government to go smack Switzerland’s face, and next thing you know you’re being detained in a 5 eyes country for exercising free speech, despite them claiming to only provide such metadata to police under “criminal activity”.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      83·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, how dare Proton have forced that customer to use their personally identifying credit card when they paid for the service! I can’t believe Proton AG prevented them specifically from using cash or cryptocurrency when they openly allow and advertise it for everyone else. Especially when that person was allegedly in (what the US government considers) a domestic terror cell; Proton should’ve known the risks.

      And then on top of all that, they readily sent the Swiss government that credit card information completely out of the blue. Bastards!