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Proton is vibe coding some of its apps. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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TranscriptA post by [object Object] (@zzt@mas.to) saying: courtesy of @davidgerard@circumstances.run, 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

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[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Is M$ stuff provably e2ee? Is Proton a publicly traded company? Does M$ have even close as good a track record as Proton? Are most M$ clients OSS?

Edit: Proton isn't perfect, not by a long stretch. I'm not stanning them either way, but being alarmist and giving in to mob mentality is counterproductive.

For me they just offer the right balance of being partially OSS, strong privacy and strong security that I can pragmatically "overlook" things even as a leftist and free/libre "hardliner" (as I already mentioned: the pragmatic kind. I don't see a point in using Linux-Libre and am ok with proprietary blobs or "tainted" packages for codecs necessary for piracy if there is no alternative and if they don't cause active harm (as in "phoning home" or shit like that. Linux-libre is a detriment to your security BTW)

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world -3 points 10 months ago

Oh lookie here we got another Proton payer slash sucker who likes to rationalize giving money to corporations because "privacy".

I don't mean to sound alarmist, but you seem really naive while trying to lick Proton's boots.