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A post by [object Object] (@[email protected]) saying: courtesy of @[email protected], Proton is now the only privacy vendor I know of that vibe codes its apps: In the single most damning thing I can say about Proton in 2025, the Proton GitHub repository has a “cursorrules” file. They’re vibe-coding their public systems. Much secure! I am once again begging anyone who will listen to get off of Proton as soon as reasonably possible, and to avoid their new (terrible) apps in any case. https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/114961415946154957

It has a reply by the author saying: in an unsurprising update for those familiar with how Proton operates, they silently rewrote their monorepo’s history to purge .cursor and hide that they were vibe coding: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients/tree/2a5e2ad4db0c84f39050bf2353c944a96d38e07f

given the utter lack of communication from Proton on this, I can only guess they’ve extracted .cursor into an external repository and continue to use it out of sight of the public

  • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
    1·
    10 hours ago

    The question is not is Proton perfect in every conceivable way, the question is: is it more private than Google and the answer to that is yes.

    When you opine on social media that Proton is somehow just as bad as Google you are doing the work of Google and that’s the part that (again I don’t truly believe this) makes me wonder if Google/Meta/Twitter is sowing the social web with seeds of doubt about more private alternatives.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      4·
      10 hours ago

      Proton ceo is a pedo king bootlicker and their product lacks focus was my criticism.

      You ain’t never gonna catch me defending sundar the creep and rest of them parasites