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We developed our own CAPTCHA service to ensure it is secure, respects privacy, and optimized to be usable by everyone. Find out how it works.

At Proton, we’re always working on new and innovative ways to protect the privacy and data of the Proton community.

Yeah, I guess that’s nice. I do like Proton.

I’d love for Proton to focus on completing some current services and make them actually usable though.

  • beta_tester@lemmy.mlEnglish
    71·
    1 year ago

    Proton is becoming better every day. Oftentimes it’s easier to push new services than to polish old ones. And they explained a lot of times that there are different teams working on different products.

    But some basic things were promised many years ago and they did not yet deliver yet which is sad

      • akilou@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Threaded conversations on mobile. Dedicated contacts management app that acts as your default contact app on mobile.

        Fo christ sake, I can’t even edit a calendar event on mobile if another participant is added to it.

        There are a million things to polish.

    • im sorry i broke the code@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Proton is becoming better every day

      Often times is easier to push new services than to polish old ones

      And how is that becoming better? Their mobile and desktop softwares aren’t on par with anything free or paid, they work yes but they lack a of features that their own web app have; the calendar app, on iOS at least, is straight up useless; the mail app works but it lacks in basic features and it’s ugly; they barely support Linux; their own drive software lacks a lot of features that other drive services - privacy oriented and with E2E - have.

  • Grangle1@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Wireguard on Linux for Proton VPN and a Bridge for Calendar (or adding Calendar to the current Bridge) would be great for making current services better.

  • Xy_Lemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    This is awesome stuff. I like the direction Proton is taking of slowly adding services. I hope they get to build a web browser sooner. Hopefully not based on Chromium but Firefox (Gecko).

  • Lung@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Feels like releasing a new (privacy oriented) horse drawn buggy design just as automobiles are taking off

    Captcha has already been extremely questionable for years, as there are open source tools to break em, and AIs emerging that can describe what’s in images

    Take as a case study RuneScape building custom captcha games during login to try and dissuade bots. It didn’t work, the bots easily adapted to the new games

    Google’s reCaptcha no longer recommends any user interaction at all. The new methodology is using AI to wholistically examine user behavior/identity with as much data as possible

    Basically, I think Proton wasted their time, and captchas are a dumb system. They added computational challenges, but they start easy and are pitched when image fails. So I’m not so convinced that they will work better than cloudflare