Signal is hardly difficult to use tho. It’s just another messaging app

Made a honey and poppy seed ricotta cheesecake once with sweet marscarpone on the side. It was delicious.

If you absolutely need a Chromium browser (if you’re a privacy advocate, I don’t understand why. Using a Chromium browser means Google can do whatever they want with web standards), use Vivaldi or something.

Just to make sure, uNlock or uBlock origin?

Interesting system! Correct me if I’m wrong though, but buying credits does look like it’s not an automatically recurring payment (to buy credits), so that makes sense (they do keep the receipts though according to their privacy policy. Decoupled from the account, but they do keep data).

That’s a bit different from Proton’s credit card payment method (which is the case here) that automatically recurs. If Posteo offered automatically recurring payments, they’d have to save payment data as well (which they also explain in the privacy policy).

To be clear, Proton does also offer more private ways of paying. Paying by credit card is not the only option. Bitcoin or cash is also possible. I just found out that Proton does also actually offer a credit system as well, but it’s unclear to me if that’s decoupled or not. Definitely a place where they could do better.

Not sure, they do seem to store something (pretty unclear what though), but I’m guessing that can be fully decoupled from a user’s account, since it’s unrelated to the actual service.

Indeed, but those are crypto payments from a third party crypto wallet. It’s also between users and not recurring, so Signal has no reason to keep the data.

This comparison makes no sense.

Signal doesn’t have payment data. It’s not a paid service. Proton is a paid subscription service and that payment data needs to be accessible in order to charge the user and they’re not a payment processor.

Switzerland used to be one of the best countries for it, but indeed not anymore. Proton is well aware and has already moved some infrastructure out of Switzerland.

Signal demonstrated that you can decouple payment info from account info

How did Signal demonstrate this? Signal is not a paid subscription service

Huh? The game studios pay the licenses, the artists etc. Why on earth would you then hold the store accountable? This is double dipping. That’s like charging a CD store for selling your CDs.

This shit is why the music industry is despised.

Even in the remote chance that this is true, they wouldn’t have had any reason to fire the missile if the US didn’t attack, so the blame would still lie with the US.

But that birth certificate can never show proof of US citizenship for immigrants right? I’m assuming the US won’t give a US-based birth certificate if you’re not born there.

Everyone in America have a birth certificate

Probably not if you’re an immigrant right? Legal or not.

I’m trying to say that a birth certificate doesn’t make much sense as a form of proof of citizenship, since it doesn’t accurately reflect immigrants and, apparently, marital status

A passport or national ID

Yeah, but that seems like a really dumb and not-all-encompassing proof of citizenship. That’s why I asked. The 2nd part of your reaction makes sense and very likely accurate, but probably not the official reason right? Like, what is their public excuse for using it as proof of citizenship?

Why on earth is a birth certificate used at all for identification?