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wait, what am I missing here? are we going with a screenshot of text from the creator of the site? is this all we need these days? not even a email validity test?
Screenshots can easily be forged. It could all be true but at least provide more than just a screenshot of a text.
I’m not sure why Njalla would ruin their reputation to make up a lie about proton. They’re not even competitors really.
I find it much harder to believe that njalla is going to destroy their extremely well-regarded and trustworthy business in order to bad-mouth proton with a fake screenshot than proton is doing more sketchy stuff.
To be fair, last time we got news of Protonmail "doing sketchy stuff", it turned out they weren't storing anyone's IPs at all until a government body demanded they to do it for the specific targets, and well, they still gotta follow the law. So well, I think it's reasonable to have just a little bit of trust on Protonmail too whenever the next bad news pops up.
Here's the thing. People mostly weren't mad that they were forced to do this, but rather they very heavily implied in their marketing that they don't store IP addresses ever, despite knowing that they may well be obligated to in certain cases.
I don't know the details and I didn't mean they were lying. Just that it could be a forged email not directly from Proton. I agree this looks very bad for Proton. it's just that I noticed the creator of Njalla is also the (co)owner of IPredatorVPN.
I hope more details come out.
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