Mozilla layoffs, Cosmic DE alpha, India bans Proton Mail: Linux & Open Source News
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02:10 Mozilla announced layoffs to refocus on Firefox
03:54 Cosmic alpha is close, with its own file manager
05:40 India moves to ban ProtonMail
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Waaaiiit ! What's all this hate for ? OK, so the Govt bans, blocks or cracks some services. Why should you be so pissed UNLESS YOU WERE USING THEM FOR ILLEGAL PURPOSES ?
I hope you are all smart enough to understand that most countries are facing terrorist threats dangerous enough to justify some inconvenience/privacy-breach to some innocents.
So let's see some maturity, guys, don't play into the hands of terrorists or WOKES. Unlike them, you aren't even getting paid by davood/soros 🤣🤣
I live in India and government solutions for anything is banning things left and right.
@@skelebro9999it does absolutely nothing to tackle the problem.
True man. Our government is really brainless
@@squid11160 yep
Instead of teaching students not to do, they just ban it. I guess the IT ministers doesn't know VPN exists. True dumb. I guess they think teaching stuffs will cost more than banning stuffs.
edit: in anyways I am not trying to say India is a bad nation or India has dumb governments.
Same in Russia, like a month ago RKN banned ALL .ua (Ukrainian domain) websites completely, no matter what's the website is
Yeah, Indian government's reaction for this is just looks like an excuse, tbh. Though I haven't used Proton Mail myself yet, it apparently is a great mail service. It's too bad that this is the direction Indian government is taking. I mean, remember when they wanted to collect the VPN data, that made Proton to withdraw from India?
It's funny how governments seem to always tell on themselves when they explain why they're doing things like this. They literally admitted it's because they want to spy on people.
India is moving closer to the BRICS average.
It's a very good thing that nobody in India can run a very long wireless connection to a VPN outside of local government control.
now we don't have any rights. no privacy no nothing. govt asked vpn providers to log user activity so protonvpn was banned now they did this to mail too. everything here is fucked up.
@@ettoreatalan8303 Bearing in mind that two of those countries are either running an effective national Intranet or planning to introduce one. That's where I fear we're heading - "splinternets" under the claims of national sovereignty, protecting safety (ie. of children from social media), stopping misinformation, cybersecurity and preventing vice.
Bro India’s reaction to the threats were horrible like bro someone can just threat them from another email service like what!!!???
Surprised they haven't banned toilets yet, they seem threatening to their culture 🚫🚽❤️💩
Seems to be just an excuse to reduce privacy options, mainly the popular ones.
Yeah bro.
The Indian government is full of primitive minded people
Others like google will give government the data most likely
really puttin the :// in moz://a
Hahaha best comment
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@@TheLinuxEXPespecially if you consider that the double slash was recognised by the person who introduced it as his life's biggest mistake
@@st0rmriderwasn't it about the domain order?
@@lmnk no I believe it was the second slash in the protocol, like it doesn't add much, only wastes time especially in typos etc.
I bet the people running the Indian committee never even thought about privacy
Most of their computers are probably running Windows 7 or XP.
@@skelebro9999 Oh i can tell you some of them are definitely win 7, many are 10 now tho (seen it)
@@skelebro9999 ok i will tell u somthing u all must have heard about isro. Well they got hacked like a randsomeware encrypted all of their files they paid the hackers large chunks of money and this incident was not made public it happened in 2023 my uncle works in cyber department and he told me about it like tf and how they got hacked beacuse they were running outdated services which had many exploits that were already fixed in new versions but who cares no one updated and then got hacked
@@skelebro9999Can confirm as an Indian. Majority of the government services still use win 7
I can bet that less than 5% of Indians know about the concept of right to privacy. I am the minority and do not like govt banning things. It is lazy governance.
Man I'm so proud of System76 devs. How far they've come from their original team made of 4 people!!! Cosmic DE's project is insane. Shoutout to the amazing dev team
It's baffling to me how utterly useless the Indian cybersecurity cell is. They can't protect us from actual cyber threats and instead they keep taking all the wrong decisions which further jeopardize national security.
The purpose of all government services is to control its populace. They use catchy buzzwords to justify them.
The problem is no mainstream media or even any Indian UA-camrs are talking about this
Do they even know about protonmail? No!
Indian mainstream "news" media 😂. Though a mainstream Indian newspaper (Hindustan times) seems to be the first to break this news.
bro privacy is for rich people people in india when their per capita crosses 10000 usd hopefully by 2044 we can talk about this till then sit back and enjoy the ride
@@kakun63 Linux is free to install and customize so long as you got yourself a USB with the image
Windows is free to install but it ain't free to customize!
Why would Godi media talk bad about their Papa?
India is becoming more and more authoritarian country as the days are passing, that is why many companies have also removed their VPN servers from india and shifted to another country. But i still hope that the situation will become better in the comming days if there is a change in government!!
True. People are not realising it. They are just busy worshipping the PM and can't see what the government is doing.
wrost government till now
hope you guys don't end up like us Pakistanis. We are already too deep into this authoritarian bs, and you guys should really make sure you don't end up like so, cuz its really hard to undo it.
@@askeladden450too late. The current fascists in power are competing with Pak on who will reach the bottom first.
India is moving closer to the BRICS average.
If there is a committee to ban anything they want to ban with little, mostly unreasonable justification, I would immediately suspect the committee to be behind the emails that led to the ban.
Lot of activists in India use protonmail this is a deliberate attempt to take that away from them. I'm certain the email was sent by the IB like how Belarus did to arrest that activist.
Good thing Proton Mail offers VPN to avoid nation wide IP bans.
Didn't Proton VPN withdraw from India?
@@Gramini Yes, but what it means is that people from outside can't get indian IP address, doesn't change the fact that Indians can get a foreign IP address
@@binarydigitz01 I see, thanks for the clarification.
I wanted to say this exact thing 😊
So far it's ProtonMail is still working for me in India.
Yup. But who knows when that's gonna last.
I"m a die hard KDE fan but I'm keeping a very close eye on Cosmic DE.
re: keeping a very close eye on Cosmic DE.
have you tried DMT eyedrops?
I'm really sad Sys76 built a new DE rather than going KDE. Apparently they do a lot of stuff with Rust and Rust+Qt isn't/wasn't that great.
@@Komatik_well eventually we'll move over to Redox OS
What they're building could easily be substantially better than KDE Plasma.
@@Komatik_ Why go KDE? It's not an out of the box experience and can bug out the more you customize it.
COSMIC does have it's own file manager and terminal, I've tried both and they're solid, minus the todo features. I feel like when QT and GTK(and libadwaita) implement freedesktop's accent colors, the integration in COSMIC should as good as on any other desktop.
Accent colors??? GNOME allows you to select your own colors? GNOME allows you to USE colors?? I figured they were too busy BREAKING GTK for everyone else.
It doesn't, yet. There's a freedesktop standard of accent colors and different desktops will be adopting it in one way or another. GNOME was the most resistant and they didn't want fully free choice of the accent colors, but rather a selected palette of GNOME design. But yeah eventually we should have accent colors on GNOME, and they should sync with any major toolkit. Except if you're for example on Plasma your accent color might look different on GNOME apps because they will snap your specific color to the closest one of GNOME design palette. At least that's how the argument was resolved last time I checked it.@@SenileOtaku
@@temari2860that is correct.
1. I would be PISSED if Mozilla is abandoning Relay! I have several relay mail adresses that link to my real mail address. It would be a pain in the ass to switch the address for every website....
2. Can't wait for the COSMIC Alpha to be released.
The only reason I don't buy firefox products is because I wait for them to finally be accessible in my country's currency.
I do, however, feel like I wouldn't buy it as days go buy because they just don't last.
Yeah, I recently started using Relay, so I hope it doesn't get abandoned.
As an Indian proton mail user, I am disappointed, sad and embarrassed.
My govt IDs use protonmail 💀. Beautiful
I'll say this about the Mozilla VPN service:
It's not being offered by some company that popped up out of nowhere, with ultimately unclear capital sources and intentions, enriching a company that does little to nothing to genuinely advocate for privacy other than as a knock off effect to play on people's paranoia when selling their service.
I'm not calling any other service out or anything, that's just my limited perspective and feels regarding the scene.
Also I don't think any other VPN service is subsidiary to a non-profit? Which says something in my book.
Yeah, Mullvad seems legit.
Actually, as far as I am aware, Riseup has a VPN as well, RiseupVPN
The concept of privacy is slowly fading away from the hands of us Indians. In 2020, they removed proton VPN servers and now to cover up this, their mess, they blame it on a privacy company and ban another service. Slowly but surely privacy in India will remain nothing more than a joke. andI don't want to see that happen.
Been watching you for so long, Nick! Gotta say, you have the the smoothest sponsor integration across all linux youtubers or youtubers in general. You always trick me into watching those😂
That payment implementation for all Chromium based sounds like what Brave does already.
Will be interesting to see how people implement it.
Yeah, makes me wonder how it works behind the scenes tho. Who is the payment processor for this? And do they get a cut out of all the micro-payments? And will you be able to select a payment processor other than (assumingly) Google? Because I certainly don't want to feed free money to the fat colossus that is google.
@@Clawthorne These are all valid questions. Look into Coil (a previous payment processor for the API that is now defunct), and all the criticism about it. I don't think it's been properly addressed.
@@lemonline3719Yikes. Yeah definitely sounds like google saw dollar signs and snapped up a startup idea with the intent of using it as a source of free revenue behind a polished veneer of altruism.
Not that the startup thing was any better... reeks of weird recycled crypto nonsense and the old "random 3rd party with no experience handling mass amounts of money and responsibility without insurance" problem.
Except unlike brave it probably won’t be a crypto scam this time.
Banning is lazy governance. I am from India and people don't even know the concept of right to privacy here.
so basically, Proton was actually serious about security and privacy, and a surveillance state didn't like it? Sounds like a great ad for Proton 😂
More likely, I think this means e-mail providers like Gmail, Exchange and others likely do comply with police requests and basically give out all information they have on people... which is why I hope Indian citizens who rely on Protonmail and other privacy centric services continue using those with a VPN or something. Though I do remember some news on VPN restrictions and rules there too...
Mozilla hired a new CEO and not even a month in, they are laying off employees. This is very concerning.
Yep
Yet entirely usual
I wouldn't say it's concerning right now since it's just a side effect of scaling down a company that's has been bloated way too much in way too many directions. They've been flailing around for years now wasting tons of money on all manner of completely pointless services and things that absolutely no one wanted in the first place.
People just want a good, high-performance, privacy focused browser, not weird password monitoring services or browser VPNs.
Honestly, no. It just…is. Retrench and focus on what will keep you viable for decades. The alternative could be…not more Mozilla at all in 5 years.
For profit companies sometimes lay off to make numbers, non-profits do it because they are focused on the larger cause in the long run.
You have to cut your suit according to the cloth
New CEO with a background on business, marketing and sells, immediately layoffs follow. Yep... right from the corporate playbook. This is going to keep happening. They cut down on "liabilities" (blame employees), take your most profitable product/services and see how to extract more value out of it, which to the end user means more data collection, more advertising, less control over what you can do on the platform you rely on...
This is the beginning of the end of Mozi//a
On point assessment
*Moz://a
That's more than a little bit doomsayer, don't you think?
All they're doing is scaling down the company and removing completely redundant positions and services that shouldn't have been there to begin with. And we also don't know WHAT positions exactly were removed. It's possible that all 60 of them were positions they could not move anywhere else because they're too specialized.
Also you're forgetting that Firefox's entire existence is centered around privacy. They literally cannot add data collection crap or advertisements or remove control. They would lose 95% of their userbase over night to Brave or various Firefox derivatives. That is corporate suicide and would have them fired by the board almost immediately.
Enshittification. (Coined by Corey Doctorow)
I agree with you. Additionally, Mozilla went down hill when they ran off Brendan Eich because they disagree with his political views. The project has suffered ever since. So some of this is self-inflicted.
Indian Government 🤝🏼 Canadian Government
Banning stuff they can't control
I'm from India, I had recently started using proton mail.
I was in the process to move all my existing accounts and services to proton mail, even thought of getting a paid subscription but this changes everything :(
Just use a VPN brother
Get of there as fast as you can before it becomes like china, russia, north korea, iran etc
@@maximus1172That’s the plan but how long is that gonna help. It seems like every other democratic government is getting more authoritarian by the passing day.
I am also using ProtonMail but I don't think Govt will impose any hard ban. I heard same thing about Signal also but nothing was done. I am very sure that Govt agencies themself rely on such service because our govt isn't capable of creating anything close to these services.
@@anujsingh4479Lol, sadly true since any new innovation is curbed to favour the old business frens of the govt.
The block is incredibly short sighted. Nefarious actors will just switch to any other e2e encrypted service. They don't even need email to send anonymous threats.
India will even block the internet if someone even thinks of thinking illegally 😂
Sadly, Modi and Putin agree on a lot.
@@garmar704Trust me, Putin is a saint in comparison to the Butchher of Gujrat
Wasn't that case solved@@turanamo
@@FineWine-v4.0not in a banana republic. They killed a judge named Loya who was investigating the fascist. The courts are under the fascists' control. CIA agents gathered field evidence which is the reason the Indian PM was banned from the US for many years.
@@turanamo Some one finally spoke facts!!
As an Indian, the government here is extremely tech illiterate. This move to ban Proton Mail might be malicious opportunistic nature, but it might as well be just some guys sitting in the parliament thinking that Proton Mail is some shady service. Also, banning stuff like this is their goto solution.
7:30 Assuming it wasn't just a manufactured "threat" to create justification to block it.
I am exited for the manjaro pc/console, not because I want it, but because I want to see many companies offering this type of hybrid pc/ consoles. I think they are key for non tech people to start using linux, they are better than both windows pc and consoles.
I’m pretty interested in the new COSMIC. I expect a great, efficient UI. Really want to see the performance of COSMIC vs. other DE. The lighter the better.
4:10 Well, that reminds me a lot of Haiku's UI.
And in my own in-browser OS simulation I'll also implement that at some point because I really like it.
I hope Firefox survives. TBH it's the only Mozilla thing I care about or use.
No, Thunderbird is at least as important as Firefox. After all, a web browser is *NOT* an email client.
I guess so. It's useless to me and many others without exchange support tho. Haven't used it in like 15 years.
@@SenileOtaku
@@SenileOtaku*cries in corporate chromebook*
If I ever create my own web browser (which I consider actually doing) then I'll probably use Servo if it's good. I considered using Gecko for that, but I've heard that Gecko is so extremely tied to Firefox that it is very hard to use outside of that.
I can't wait for the Manjaro handheld. At last we will have a dedicated Linux handheld with 32 GB.
Hope they have a good infra to sell cartuges and support from Japan, but I doubt
@@diablorojo3887 Ofcourse, they will support all original Nintendo cartridges.
@@Potatobitz why you typed so much, you need VPN, we get it. Yeah, it can be better as it will be closer to main distro and have less custom tweaks.
@@Potatobitz it is arch based,I would be very surprised if you could not get vpn working if you have access to a terminal
Every single update I see for Cosmic gets me more and more excited to try it. It could tempt me to swap from KDE, something I moved to back in 2018 when Ubuntu ditched Unity...
I am looking forward to the new cosmic desktop and the upgrade of PopOS, which I consider to make my daily driver and transition Linux (leaving windows as OS for work). Greetings
Amateur IT ministers
Illiterate 10th fail authoritative jungle raj ministers, there fixed it!!
Yes, the installer is very very important. I'm not technical, but I have been around since CP/M 2.2, and the installer is mostly why I ended up on Linux Mint. Make it as easy as possible for people who don't need to learn the command line, or get inward to mount points.
Ahh yes Indian government being stupid again.
Well, they are apart of BRICS, the frontiers of autonomy, freedom and privacy.
the India story reminds me of a recent Behind the Bastards episode about the insane industry of corporatized hacking services in India... the gov't has a VERY vested interest in keeping digital privacy to a minimum.
Merci pour le superbe contenu. Et petit bonjour d'Allemagne vers la Bretagne 😜👍
Usually a threat like this is sent by a student of the school so they can get out of an exam or get a day off. It's probable that the student will tell someone like bragging to a friend and that's how they can be eventually caught. It's also possible to profile the individual based off the fact they used ProtonMail they're likely someone intelligent with a history of using computers.
This is all to say that it's entirely possible to resolve these matters using an old fashioned investigation, which makes a lot more sense than forcing everyone in the world to give up any last semblance of privacy.
indian it ministry :
gambling apps ✅
Secure mail 🚫
Thank you for listing what your laptop and PC are. I was wondering what they were because tuxedo's website rivals Dell's in terms of un-usability. Every time I watch one of your videos I go "Huh, this laptop looks decent. Let me check what its specs are." And I go to their website and I either get lost or get too confused at what the offerings are.
If you could provide some feedback to the Tuxedo sponsors, it would be to streamline their website. It doesn't have to be Apple-level, Framework do it well too. I know it's difficult with several product lines but there has to be a better way to display the range of devices.
16:28 - I almost got that case some years ago. It's by Chieftec and very interesting in how it folds open. - But I opted for the Tt Core V21. A bit more spacious and flexibility. - But I still like that Chieftec case, as it's quite unique. - They also deserve more attention, because they make a lot of cases, from mini-enclosures to rack-cases, and they're decent quality at fair prices. - Sounds like an ad, but that's just my observation. I don't even own any Chieftect-products (yet), but their options always stand out when I look through the many cases out there. People just keep looking at all the Corsairs and Cooler Masters and so on, just like a decade+ ago it was Antec and those brands that fell out of popularity. - Nothing beats the Tt V21 yet, though... It's not perfect and definitely dated, but still "the best", so I'm sticking with that for my main system for now.
Linux has grown by leaps and bounds since I started using it in March 2020. Now I only use Windows at work on company issued devices. Now I feel more comfortable on Pop!_OS than on my work computer.
Guess we have to send a version of Don Quijote to India so they would know how a fight against windmills will end.
I like the focus on Firefox mobile. At least the Android Version laggs (pun intended) behind Chromium especially when it comes to JS Performance and Scrolling smoothness on complex sites.
That being said its still unfortunate for the ones affected by the layoffs.
So true. I tried using Firefox mobile, but it was so bad I had to go back to Chromium, unfortunately.
I'm using Firefox for Android, and it has deficiencies I hope they could address. (Many less settings)
@@skyrunner021 it suffers from chronical slowness, unfortunately. But I still have hope.
@@softwarelivre2389 oh yes. I frequently get slowness followed by crashes of half my phone's apps, but that's not necessarily Firefox.
As long as web monetization doesn't become mandatory somehow it's all good. (eg. previously free websites only allowing access with payments enabled)
7:30 To all of you out there who just don't get it, this is one of the most important segments "The Linux Experiment" has posted in a long time. I mean, just wow!
i'm worried about web donations, because it could lead to more paywalls expecting you to change your donation settings to be allowed to view content. i hope it stays niche, as something well off people can contribute to purely out of the goodness of their hearts. but i also hope it becomes sustainable for web hosts.
that's insane bad move, protonmail is my life, business, simplelogin mails, personal stuff, everything
You are spot on, this was clearly just an excuse to do something they wanted to do for a long time. I'm eyeing Signal next.
Pata chala agla signal hi ban krde hd ho rkhi hai
@@sarthakgothalyan8952 Ofcourse why not, all we need is 1 criminal out of millions to choose it for communication, and then privacy in India gets the final nail in its long-rotting coffin
With cheap drives installing a new operating system has never been safer. You back up your hone directory, remove the drive put in a new drive load the new operating system and reload home directory. If it goes wrong just put the original drive back.
That's only if 1: you have a system where the HDD is readily accessible or 2: the storage isn't welded to the system board and serial-number locked to the hardware (hello, Apple)
Speaking of asahi linux, It's kind of crazy there's actually a vtuber programmer out there who contributes to asahi linux, and they're named Asahi Lina. Very cool stuff imo. Last time I watched Lina was them coding a graphics driver for asahi and they got very far with it
Nick thanks for all the videos , love the channel , and love the hate for macos and windows...sign me up for that club , I was wondering if you can do a video in wich or what distro of linux gets the most out of a solid state drive in terms of speed , performance, all around feel of good speedy performance vs the performance that could get on windows .....Since I bought an ssd years back and switched to linux I have researched and searched wide and long for good info on this to no avail...or just to hit just endless paths of people saying on boards and threads: try this or try that filesystem etc.- but no videos regarding real testing or a more hands-on approach , hope you can do this.
I really want to get to the bottom of this and resolve once and for all if you can get better performance and speed on windows or linux with a certain distro or a certain filesystem for a ssd.
👍 Merci ⚜
Not sure if anyone has asked, but what is the close up cellular circulatory animation behind your slide deck? :)
Windows stack on pop os is 🔥 this should be every where
FYI… End March 2024, still able to access Protonmail. Mobile and desktop Bengaluru and Mumbai. No VPN, regular iSP settings. Those who ranted, hold breath.
I agree, banning things is never good idea, I see a lot of thought have gone this, but it doesn't solve the long-term problems.
Thoughts are the last thing they are putting when banning something
When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Great episode, thanks!
Oh yes, working on the Firefox mobile app is a Greta idea. I hope for a renewed tablet version
A lot of folks are unhappy about AI coming to Firefox, and looking for potential alternatives, if it's local AI sure why not, just not having it tied to a server that farms data for marketing ads, if Servo web engine picks up more attention, we could see a new generation of web browsers that isn't "Chromium" reskinned.
The AI should be its own extension and not be bundled with Firefox.
Also looking forward to Servo x3
Kinda fun seeing Google copying(in a good way) from Brave, with this WebMonetization. Wonder if it happens, Brave would just retire BAT, or try to keep it afloat. Or maybe integrating thier own Ad system into WebMonetization can be viable too if possible.
Thank you.
cosmic alpha finally a good UX/UI without customizing gnome or hyperland to the extend or deinstalling kde 6
good video
100% in agreement re: the new Ubuntu installer. Long overdue IMHO, it's vastly improved.
i can't wait for your review of the stable version of cosmic de
Mozilla focussing in Firefox is good news. And, yes: pure local AI could be an interesting thing. Clouds are no-go.
If it was gmail there wouldn't have been this much drama they would have got the guy and the matter resolved. Privacy is well and good what's the point if it gets abused by bad actors. Authorities all over the world would find reasons to reasons to do things like this.
Thanks
Ad based internet will never die, all that will happen is more double dipping.
Why not charge money AND get paid from advertisers to serve ads at the same time?
We already see this happening, so it is better to let them rely on advertisers and play the cat and mouse game of blocking.
Firefox and Firefox OS and some services would be fine, to install on old pc/mac, fully open opensource, EU could sponsor that
I was thinking of switching to Proton mail but you have to use their mail client which was a deal breaker for me.
Umm, no thanks to web monetization and micropayments in general. Imagine trying to keep track of that across multiple sites/merchants. I have enough difficulty staying on top of my monthly recurring auto-payments as it is. The last thing I need is a bazillion micropayments to manage.
Well I have a dumb question
If Proton Mail gets banned in India, then I won't be able to access it, so what will happen to services which are connected to my proton mail?
For example: I have my apple music subscription through my proton mail id. So after Proton Mail gets banned in India, let's say I want to make modification to my subscription or cancel my subscription then how will I do it ?
14:00 Well, I am not surprised by the fact that Asahi supports newer OpenGL versions than Apple.
I mean, do you really expect somebody, be it a company or an individual, to work on a feature (like OpenGL support) which they marked as deprecated for at this point multiple years?
Exactly this! It was the most uneducated statement on this channel. OpenGL on Mac hasn't been updated since Epic switched to use Metal for it's OS X engine.
I hope that this micropayments on websites wont be managed by google but it will be more direct (or you would have at least option to choose provider).
lets hope the microdonations thingy will work better than flattr back in the day
God bless you.
Servo not only "uses" Rust, but Rust as we know it today was born out of Servo
If the Indian government is banning it that's all the enforcement I need to go from my free Proton Mail to the paid version. So thanks for the recommendation, appreciated.
Not surprised the new CEO would go after the workforce first thing. Would have preferred those hands and eyes on Firefox until they can figure out what else is viable. :/
You can use ROCm with resolve to enable hardware acceleration on amd gpus.
You need to use the AMDGPU pro drivers though, which suck for everything else (like gaming), and you’re only using OpenCL, which performs really badly compared to CUDA :/
I do like using Firefox Relay; I'm even a Premium subscriber. Sure, there are other alternatives I can use, but I'm already invested in Relay and would prefer not to switch if I don't have to. I hope Mozilla keeps Relay going, even if it means reduced investment.
I myself love privacy tools, but there is a certain distinction to be made between a privacy service and a service, that goes more and is actually criminal-enabling.
Why they won't block GMail is, because of the Indian authorities send a legitimate request to obtain user information Google will provide it, abiding the law, and if Proton were asked for the same with relation to the case mentioned in the video - and if they declined to comply with the law, that is an absolutely valid reason to block the service.
Of course there are countries, that abuse the law in order to impose censorship and political persecutions, like Canada does, but in this case with India it looks like a legit concern over their national security, so I can't blame them.
in the last decade some big companies that leaving india: xiaomi, ford, cairn energy, holcim, metro ag, daiichi sankyo, carrefour, henkel, harley davidson, tiktok
Ford is back and tiktok didn't leave India it was kicked out. When did xiaomi leave India?
Also I have a list of 40+ companies which came to India btw.
@@Saurabhkumar-bn3dl indian government revealed in parliament in december 2021 that as many as 2,783 foreign companies and their subsidiaries ceased operations in india between 2014 and november 2021
@@privacyhelp The red tapes and and hurdles in India are much more at ease now. You can see it in ease of doing business index. Majority of these companies left because of lack of consumers. The big five auto industry left India because they were trying to treat India as a dumpyard for products that don't sell worldwide while Indian companies are catching up to global standards. I would buy Tata instead of Ford or GE any day.
It's what happens when market matures and stars being self reliant. You should check the huge FDI by companies that matters coming inside India such as Foxconn.
What district are you currently using?
I'm mostly happy with Mozilla's decision as I'm satisfied with the Firefox relay experience but the mobile Firefox app definitely needs improvement, I don't use their VPN or monitor but I'm a little disappointed about mozilla social though
the new ubuntu installer for some reason keep crashing for me. . . both from ubuntu 23.10 and 23.04.
the reality is that websites will continue to take money from advertisers because it makes so much money.
we need a different model for advertising that removes completely the power from advertisers and puts it 100% on the people & it has to be bu law, so advertisers can’t escape it and should be beneficial to them, so they don’t have interest to avoid it or lobby against it
An Indian here... Apparently everything is blocked in India like tiktok and cam scanner... So ya this does not freak me out... This is usual for us
I'm from India and I can still access proton.
It hasn’t gone through yet, apparently, as mentioned in the video
@@TheLinuxEXP And it won't go through either.
I can visualize someone young in the department who is literate telling the uncles that banning one provider will only prompt the bad actor to switch to another service and banning every provider until there's nothing left but telegrams and pigeons.
@@Grogueman I don't know whether to laugh or cry after reading this, such is the state of the country 😂😭
@@maximus1172to be honest it’s every bureaucracy at this point, adapting to the internet isn’t really easy for governments, the idea that “blocking” or “banning” something isn’t even close to as effective as what happens with physical goods (to be honest, it’s not very effective on them either).