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I was wondering how they would be able to run such an expensive service based on just one person’s ad revenue:

Microsoft is also currently testing a limit of one hour for sessions, with up to five hours free a month

I just don’t understand how Microsoft thinks someone is going to sit through minutes of ads and be okay with only 5 hours per month in return.

Dumbphones are ridiculously insecure, and they only support SMS communications which don’t have any end-to-end encryption.

Proton’s Lumo is also built to almost always recommend Proton services when asked about secure email, VPNs, cloud storage, etc., so that probably contributed to it hallucinating a “Proton Call”.

To be fair, it is $100/mo, so there is a premium for their privacy benefits.

No, seriously, what’s up with those messages 😭

There will be a six-month period when law enforcement will hand out warning tickets. Starting Jan. 1, 2026, the fines will be $100.

I’m glad that it’s rightfully illegal now, but that seems like kind of a light consequence for endangering everyone around you.

The thundermail domains are thundermail.com and tb.pro. I’m curious to see how they will compare to the top privacy-respecting email providers today, and how they think they will “provid[e] a better service than the other providers out there,” which would include Protonmail, Tutanota, etc.

The issue of centralization can be a problem, but in regards to metadata, sealed sender does a lot to prevent Signal’s servers from knowing who messages who, which makes Signal a lot more private than described here.