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Thank you! It’s easy to forget many of the “safety nets” we enjoy in Europe stem from socialist-style welfare policies that our forerunners fought for.

This is precisely why I despise startup culture. What about the risk for the workers and your customers? What are the grand innovations you think Europe couldn’t produce because we’re more careful?

The article is wrong on many levels, you’re right. As a Berlin-based developer I’m not sure where they’re getting their facts.

Blaming GDPR for everything is another stupid trend I detest. I’ve inplemented a lot of stuff related to it and it’s definitely not what it gets pictured as.

At the end of the day it speaks more of the zeitgeist among Quartz’s “high-earning readers”.

I’m not sure what your sources are, but “most users” sounds incorrect. All of this stems from personal experience and is anedoctal, so I’ll leave it at that.

Yours is a very interesting observation. You’re saying that either:

a) You’re there to work on the kernel, and because that’s the end goal you out up with the CoC;

b) You’re there for the reputation and/or meritocracy, so the CoC feels like a personal attack.

Is that it?

I’ve been paying for a Mini account at Runbox for 2 years.

I think they’re hosted in Norway or some other “safe(r)” location. The UI definitely needs some polish, including their marketing pages.

Functionality-wise it’s top notch. I’ve no complaints to log so far. I also use them for CalDAV, CardDAV, and host a domain with a sub-account my wife uses.

I’ve needed their customer support twice, and it was the best possible service in both accounts. This last time it was about 2FA after I locked myself out of my account. Really good service.

That’s that. I’ve used Proton and Tutanota before. A long way back I was a very happy customer of Lavabit. All of these are privacy-conscious.

Read the privacy policies, try to make sense of them. I would avoid Gmail like the plague, but I’m morally opposed to Google.