If the owner of the standard notes will now be a proton, doesn’t that contradict this principle? I have a proton email account but I don’t want it linked to my standard notes account. I don’t strongly trust companies that offer packaged services like google or Microsoft. I prefer to have one service from one company. I am afraid that now I will have to change where I save my notes. What do you guys think about this?

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    5 months ago

    I’m on the opposite of that opinion. I’d love it if proton had a whole suite like Google drive and Google keep all bundled into one secure and private service.

    • gamedeviancy@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      14·
      5 months ago

      Ok, but what does it mean, is that, when proton will be compromised, all of your data also can be compromised. When we have our data divided between different independent services, compromising one does not mean violating the others.

      • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        I don’t know about that. If I use Google to sign in to different separate services, if my Google account is compromised, then so are all the other services, no?

        If they’re all independent services then it becomes a hassle. Having to have multiple apps or accounts to manage.

        You make a valid point, but I think there should be some kind of middle ground between the two.

    • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Bundles in general are not great…

      Companies and businesses benefit from the bundling bias, which usually is an indication that consumers are losing out. By creating bundled packages that people do not fully take advantage of, businesses are getting more money than they usually would and reap a greater profit.

      And that’s before we factor in whether it’ll keep people from searching out alternatives thanks to convenience:

      The successful deployment of a platform expansion strategy requires leveraging a customer group (composed primarily of end consumers) from one interaction to another, which would entail multiple contractual and technical tactics that differ in their degree of interference with customer choice. The more coercive these tactics are, the more they will resemble the effect that tying and bundling practices have on consumer behavior and thus the more likely to trigger competition law scrutiny.

      Companies like Apple also keep people in their ecosystem by offering nice things upfront and then introducing sunk cost issues.