But it looks like Proton does not choose the beneficiaries. From their statement:

‘Recipients are nominated by the Proton community and selected based on community feedback. Proton doesn’t nominate the recipients. Recipients cannot be changed after the raffle begins and the fact that some find Bellingcat controversial was not known beforehand.

Anectotally, I can say that probably 50% of people I know got Covid in the last few days/weeks.

Hey, thank you for you empathy. Journalism kinda works like that, except there is not really a lot of money coming in, lol. But money being concentrated at the top is definitely a constant in our field, too.

Working as a journalist has radicalized me too, lol. I do think that journalism, health, public transportation and other public utilities should just be non-for-profit sectors. They do not make sense as businesses and they are just too important to society to leave them to the free market

Yes, but also the "deal with Elon every day" type of job. I could not do it for all the money in the world

They already have tons of products to stick AI in: Microsoft 365. You don't put AI in hardware products, you integrate it in existing software. Microsoft was never an hardware company, despite having some hardware products. Most of them (Zune, the Nokia partnership, mice and keyboards) have failed

Edit: also XBox (the console) is failing - they sell them at a loss

Wait, I use Adguard's DNS. Can you give us more details about your allegations?

Your doubts are warranted, but with Protonmail and Tutanota there is no reason be suspicious. They are basically feemium products and their goal is to respect user's rights

Same here. It's pretty barebones but fully functional.

Lol of course they did

Good choice by Nazzaro to let them speak

They have a history of tech misreporting. It's not new news.

This does not add anything to the discussion. They had that infamous PC build video (for which they apologized and which they retracted) but that's the only thing I can remember in the years I've been following them.

Also, providing a detailed technical analysis was not the scope of the article. Maybe you don't follow them very much, but they usually don't do this kind of things. They mostly cover internet culture, how technology impacts society, etc., because that's their scope. This does not mean the editors are tech illiterate. The point of the article was to say that WD drives fail a lot; some publications are reporting that while some others don't say anything; and the company is ignoring the problem.

I agree that the tone of the article is pretty butt-hurt and whiny, but that's a problem of style and not of substance

When I need a Chromium browser I use Vivaldi. I quite like it!