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Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service (www.ghacks.net)
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[–] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He also answered this claim, it is right for apps that aren't stuff like Proton VPN that can't work in a sandboxed environment. They are working on it iirc

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Screw VPNs, give us everything else!

[–] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well... A drive app will need to access the filesystem pretty in deep to support file syncing, whuch is harder to do on flatpak, their password manager is an extension so on linux too, and for the mail bridge app I think it's already on linux. Those are all the existing proton services