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Can’t they just log your account? You have to have an account with Proton to use their VPN. They can absolutely log your activity such as logging in, when you connected/disconnected, to which servers, and, more importantly, where from exactly (your original IP address)

At least personally to me it goes to show that it’s not out of the question

US-based is really a no-go for me privacy and piracy-wise. Paranoid, prejudiced, but true more often than it should be.

Personally I don't trust Proton. I know I'm paranoid, but can't be too sure about anything these days. To my knowledge MV and IVPN are the only ones with a nice privacy reputation. Shame they are cutting port forwarding

Privacy is so atrocious that their damn private key was compromised

No public audits - I don't trust. Italy is also not exactly a privacy (and personal rights) haven.

Personally I don't trust Proton

There are a couple of annoying things about it:

• The fact that it outputs super compressed JPEGs
• The presence of a (non-removable) watermark.
  Both are easily fixable with some inpainting and upscaling. DALL-E 2 has an official API which provides no watermark, however, so it could be better.
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  What isn't fixable is MSFT's self-contradictory terms of service stating that they don't claim ownership to the generations, but also stating right next to it that you can't use the outputs commercially. Who's going to enforce that if they don't claim ownership..? Anyway I just use it to generate art of my sonas, not selling it lol, but might be annoying if you for example want to make a cover art for a music platform

Bing image creator lol, it's like a juiced up dall-e 2