Depends on who inherents his shares

Get lawmakers to make a law about it and properly work it out. Valve is banning loot boxes even for people who are legally allowed to gamble.

The issue is that it is hard to legally define whaf a lootbox is and stop it without stopping things like TCG drafts and RGB loot from bosses or enemies on games.

No that’s what Angelosaxton (American) companies are about.

Most privately owned companies don’t care about making as much profit as possible. They want a healthy company that can pay them their salary and save up money for their pension.

Valve is a privately owned company.

Publicly owned companies want more prodit because well we want out interest and return on stocks and a stable pension etc as well right? That all pushes publicly owned companies to get more and more profit every year.

The crates where fine in TF2 …. Before CSGO got made, but due to CSGO and other games it’s an issue.

But while you consider it gambling, most laws don’t. It’s currently only banned in NL and BE to open lootboxes on Steam and in NL we have legal online gambling for 18+, but Valve won’t gives you access to the lootboxes.

The point is that one laws need to be more clear about what is gambling and what isn’t without ruining anything that uses randomizers and/or loot and there needs to be a better way to validate people’s age without hurting their privacy.

You are even allowed to say fuck on the radio and TV in some countries (like The Netherlands)

I wouldn’t even call this something they did wrong, it’s sad that they do have to do this, but okey

Switzerland is not the us though

We really need another Swiss alrernative

Agreeing with one statement doesn’t mean you side with all the points of a person/party.

Andy Yen is an idiot though, not going to lie about that one

We have to wait and see what the next audit is going to find, that will give us more security than any kind of information provided from Proton themselves.

The Swiss laws are also helping to make it so they keep the privacy standards high.

But I would definitely use your own domain for your Proton mail currently

This is most likely what is the issue and they are never going to be able to fix this on a platform like that

Nicely written blog post, it actually sums it up pretty nicely imo

Yen is an idiot yes I don’t anybody can disagree on that one.

But he was born in 88 and while it is well known on the internet the general public doesn’t know it’s other meaning (except the Germans and maybe the American’s).

I live in NL and I can ask around and the majority of people will not know what it means. Probably the same with 34, 69 en 420 for the matter.

I also don’t believe that endorsing one statement means that you agree with the entire pov of the person/party, but I am not American.

Believe what you want and the best thing is to just use a personal domain for your email

It’s not “his” company, the company is owned by the Proton foundation (of whatever it’s exactly called)

Yeah Yen is an idiot, but his power is more limited than with a normal CEO company structure and the Swiss law is a lot stricter than the competitors law in like Germany.

Just like with any of these mail servers, buy your own domain just incase the company switches gears and starts selling your data or whatnot

Nope there isn’t, is the owner of Reddit also doing Nazi salute’s? Cause I missed that one.

Well fair, I just found the Medium article to be more complete than most info that is shared around, but I already assumed that it was not complete. At the end the day I personally don’t have issues with Proton currently and they are still the best thing I can use since it’s located in a country like Switzerland. But I advice everybody to use their own custom domain so they can move whenever needed.

I have seen that comment as well and yeah they dug themselves further. They where an idiot for doing that if they are trying to stay impartial, heck they are idiot for going into into it in the first place. Pretty sure they just have a terrible communications department.

However, most of the world sees politics differently than the two-party system the US has and it is almost never so toxic as it is with the US. Just because you agree with one statement doesn’t mean you agree with all statements of the specific person/party. I feel like a lot of people in the US are forgetting that.

I am inclided to agree with you that Andy Yen is just an idiot and that Proton is doing it’s best to stay natural and make the most of the situation. However their communications team is pretty lackluster.

On another note, the article I linked is an opinion, so while it is laid out pretty well it is probably not telling the entire story. I have a custom domain on my Proton account so I can Switch if it ever goes to hell. I would advice you to do the same.

Tuta is located in Germany which is part of the fourteen eyes intelligence aliance. Germany also had a conservative party and a far right party win the elections.

Not saying Tuta isn’t good or anything, just wanted to share the info I have about it which might be relevant.