I know there are plenty of software missing from here. This is just a fun infographic I made, no need to take it seriously :)
What's with the diss on Malwarebytes?
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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Mainly because it's proprietary, privacy invasive by nature, and invasive on computers.
They're taking it too seriously lol
It’s also a shit product riding on marketing laurels from its past glory days, like Norton. It leaves pieces behind that can cause malware to come roaring back.
It isn’t hard to just nuke a system or restore a backup people.
Proprietary sure, but how is it privacy invasive let alone invasive on computers?
What non-proprietary option is there? I can't think of a single antivirus option which is actually remotely decent which is open.
ClamAV is an open source antivirus, but I would recommend against using an antivirus altogether due to their invasive nature. You shouldn't need one with proper sandboxing and isolation.
ClamAV is slow to get updates and frankly not a great tool to use. AV is a must as isolation and sandboxing are only as good as the next exploit. Not too mention scams like phishing are not stopped by isolation.
where's the shovel and double-ziplocs to bury your cash, silver, gold, platinum, and palladium? or the zippo to burn your prints off? get on my level, ho
Lol proton vpn
Still secure
VPN services aren't for security they're for getting around regional blocks. If you want privacy build your own. But even then youll still be tracked
They are multipurpose. You can't deny using a VPN over no VPN increases anonymity
Incorrect. It just means someone has to throw money at proton to get that data instead of throwing at ISPs and marketing nuts. They are subject to the same capitalistic pressures as anyone else.
I2P needs more torrents and more people.
Torrenting over VPN service is also dumb. Why bother just get a seedbox that accepts xmr
Seed boxes are also dumb. You are making a honeypot for yourself that can be monitored by the hosting provider.
You're just letting another party harvest your browsing habits.
The post is about security /privacy, the non American ceos political opinions don't impact that. Proton is still a good VPN/mail provider
What's wrong with Proton VPN?
The Proton CEO is quite active in twitter and participates in podcasts. Well, one day he praised one action of the Trump administration on antitrust and a whole community attacked him for "praising Trump" when he did only a nomination for Attorney General for the Antitrust division. I highly doubt he is a MAGA supporter and listening to him for 30min on any of the multiple appearances he was on, will confirm you that. Several things concerns me on Proton, the CEO's ideology ain't one of them.
Unrelated to this, I wish people was more forgiven of Trump voters, it is not the monolithic the Left tries to portray it is. Trump sold himself as fighting the establishment, being anti-war and pro-antitrust (many small business owners supported him). People voted for him even suspecting he most likely was lying. Many people, both in 2016 and 2024, voted for Trump because Hillary was very pro-war (for instance she say she would attack Russian military directly in Syria) and Kamala proudly said she would not change anything on Biden's policy in the middle of Gaza's massacres. MAGA has many racists, many! (Democrats has is share too, but usually quieter but one can notice them at the grocery stores!) But what made Trump win was desperate disfranchised Americans with no other alternatives that promised Change. Europeans should keep quiet too... in the last elections they voted as different as they could demanding change to end up with Ursula von der Leyen for another term. Democracies in both sides of the Atlantlic are heavily ill and people, in desperation, vote for whoever promises change, independently of anything else.
They're pro-Trump
How does that effect their privacy/security?
There are no alternative options for me, as a free user.
I2P and postman are free.
that's fine for now. Mullvad is very affordable though.
I'm aware. I will use it when i finally decide to pay for even more privacy.
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