_cryptagion [he/him]

it says “this hidden site”, meaning it was a site on the dark web. It probably took them awhile to figure out were the site was located so they could shut it down.

It’s not a strawman if they repeat your own logic back at you. You just had a shit take.

Well, then I look forward to playing games for this retro console for free in six years when an emulator drops for the Steam Deck 2.

The only problem I have with this is that I refuse to think of some teenager hanging off of Elon’s coattails as famous. In four years when the next president kills DOGE, nobody is even gonna remember who this kid was.

I look forward to playing these for free in a year or two when an emulator that works on the Steam Deck is released.

I can’t be outraged at DOGE for something I would do/currently do. That would be pretty hypocritical.

Then that achieves the same goal. If they’re ignoring clicks from you, and you’re blocking their trackers, then they probably don’t have a good profile on you, because whatever they do have is either old, poisoned, or both.

So your position is that they did something you didn’t like a decade ago, and so that makes them untrustworthy now?

At least you’ve admitted that your argument is nothing more than an opinion.

That’s very good advice. The article you links specifically says “Allegedly” in the title. Let me save you the hassle of getting a dictionary and explain to you the definition of “allegedly”:

used when something is said to be true but has not been proved [source]

The article not only does not provide proof, but it admits that it does not provide it. You, however, continue to insist it does because you want it to be true.

Then you didn’t read it very good, if you not only missed the fact the article was alleging Proton was hacked by Israel, as well as believe it provides proof of that claim when it does not.

No, the post is a conspiracy theory that gives no evidence to support the claim. You can’t use an allegation as evidence to support your allegation, that’s circular logic.

Now the “Switzerland” based privacy firm is proxied by an Israeli firm for traffic analysis, network exploitation of users, cryptographic monkeying

It literally claims that the traffic was routed expressly for the purpose. You didn’t read the article.

It should be noted everywhere that this person posts this, that this is an allegation without any actual evidence to support it.

No, you provided a conspiracy theory that fit your explicit biases. If you had bothered to actually read the link you provided, you would know they didn’t provide any evidence to support their claim that Israel is hacking Proton.

That didn’t answer the question. You made an assertion, but haven’t provided any evidence to support that claim.

Cryptostorm. Supports port forwarding, and you can buy access tokens through third parties using crypto. You do not register an account or provide them with any information to use the service, other than the token.

But honestly, Proton is the best route to go.

Then don’t do that? You have your choice of servers.