Diotima

Aah yes, the corporate whiner strategem.

"We overextended and now we have to sell at a loss! Help us, Obiden wan Joenobi, you're our only hope!"

Yeah fuck that. At least these fucks have a hard reset button if they fail. I bet most indebted people wish they could "realign" with little personal cost.

I'll take a 20% subsidy to offset my costs too, thanks.

To be fair, the option is pretty easy to miss for someone who isn't technical. Font size -11000 and grwy or whatever, though I might exaggerate.

And when they again need people, they'll whine about how no one wants to work for them. Or how workers are "taking advantage."

Fair question!

If an email address is being used for fraud, they don't need to see the encrypted copy; they can see the copy sent out to other people from that address. So if I send you a message from my Protonmail to your Gmail, the following is true:

Copy @ Protonmail: E2EE.
Copy @ Gmail: NOT E2EE.

There are other, circumstantial ways to tell as well. If you're trying to scam people with DudeBro Cryptocurrency, you necessarily reveal the address you use when you send our your spam or scams. If I send malware from [email protected], the proof that I sent the malware does not require you to see my server stored mail; you can just look at your own copy to see.

Does that make sense?

As we look at usage of that and the number of people that were redeeming those and using them, it was just not a feature that was available in Crunchyroll and isn’t in our roadmap.

I'll translate corporate dickhead for those in need.

"We determined that the number of people who would be impacted would be low enough to avoid real blowback, so we decided to fuck those people in the Crunchyroll with a rusty Buster Sword because really, who cares what some anime nerd thinks anyway?"

Ideally, they would be forced to honor the "forever" promise in perpetuity. Alternately, forcing them to issue physical copies of equivalent quality to every impacted customer for every title they were to have "forever" access to would be reasonable. Plus, you know, a massive 'acting like complete dicks' penalty for trying to pull this nonsense.

I'd be interested in seeing the number of E2EE enabled accounts used for criminal activity versus the number of regular ol' free Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook etc accounts. Governments absolutely have a hate-on for E2EE, so the police calling out these services specifically raises questions of motive.

Not that we should not be shutting down criminals... but this sort of framing tends to suggest that E2EE services are inherently criminal enabling, and that does not feel like a mistake.

I have, and you know what happened? We got ignored, or we got "we're working on it" responses for months on end.

Proton is, at its core, an E2EE email service. A broken mobile client is a fundamental failure.

Aah, the infamous "they." The enemy, the other, who is both villain supreme and the means to justify inaction.

Voting in the US works at the local level, arguably sometimes at the state level. I've seen it work. That it doesn't work at the higher levels has less to do with conspiracy and everything to do with the fact that (in the U.S. at least) both Democrats and Republicans have been colluding to close out opposition for years. That has nothing to do with capitalism and everything to do with power. Absent active engagement, every system falls to greed and power.

By your own logic, perhaps the Glorious Revolution you dream of is merely an outlet capitalists created to keep you participating while you sit waiting for a revolution that never comes.

Or perhaps it isn't a conspiracy at all. Capitalism isn't a cabal or a conspiracy. ANY approach we choose is prone to corruption if we aren't engaged. Capitalism, communism, socialism, and anarchy all require diligence and accountability.

The current state of the world is a direct result of our collective laziness. THEY (the infamous other) aren't to blame, WE are.

If they keep this shit up, plenty of people will be taking the step to turning them into a historical footnote. Expecting the service you've paid for, without interruption, is not a difficult ask.

Except apparently for Proton, it is.