Please remember something very important everyone: The company may have changed its policy, but the company that made the policy hasn’t changed. The people that made the bad decisions are still in charge, and the priorities that made them make that decision are still the same. They haven’t changed.

This is relevant not just for Proton, but about every time company pretends to step back from a bad decision.

Fucking idiot is too stupid to realize that local DRAM can be used for useful shit, as opposed to whatever he wants to use it for.

Who knows? Without the ability to audit that the software is doing by yourself, you just have to trust whatever it is that they say the switch does. Maybe it disables some minor functionality while still doing the majority of the privacy invasion stuff. Maybe it does absolutely nothing whatsoever.

This is the whole reason behind the Free Software movement and everything Richard Stallman has been preaching for the past 40 years. If you don’t have the ability to control the software on the devices you own, they will be used against you.