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  "path": "/t/proton-doesnt-really-support-anonymous-payments-lets-demand-that-they-do/37094#post_16",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-13T18:47:52.000Z",
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  "textContent": "> Indeed, I can see how that can be a challenge for the user, but I don’t see how it’s one for Proton.\n\nYeah, this was intended to describe a problem for the user that proton’s current system doesn’t address.\n\n> How is it more work? And why are you assuming that it’s for a small portion of users?\n\nOutside of online privacy spaces, I’ve never met a single person who wants their financial transactions to be anonymous, so I’m going off of that. Virtually everyone I know goes with the most convenient option. Exceptions like certain activists are a small percentage of the population.\n\nI admit I have no hard data, but I maintain Proton’s first goal is to appeal to businesses and convenience seeking users. Like google suite, but encrypted. To put this another way, people who want data privacy but not anonymity, like businesses who want it known that it’s the businesses’ official account but don’t want their plans leaked.\n\n> To me, this would be the equivalent of saying that Telegram implementing E2EE by default would be more work for a small portion of users.\n\nNope, all that requires changing is the settings menu because the feature is already implemented. It would be like adding E2EE if they didn’t already have it, which historically has been quite a struggle to get providers to do. Many still don’t.\n\nIn proton’s case, they would need to implement a new system for cash payments, provide instructions and support, and deal with customers who claim their cash payment wasn’t processed correctly. Doable, but a non negligible amount of effort. There are a lot more people who care about Linux automatic drive syncing and hardly anyone uses desktop Linux. They must decide what to prioritize, which they will base on their internal data.\n\nI hope they do add this eventually. It sounds like at least some people at Proton really dislike the voucher system and want to maintain control, so they would need provide an alternative method like other providers that accept cash.\n\n> **What are you talking about?** I don’t understand what you mean.\n\nYou said this in your posts in other threads, including the infographic one and also posts that came up in the past while searching the forum for unrelated information. You didn’t focus on it in this post. I am the one drawing a connection between you not valuing an all in one service and your dissatisfaction with Proton’s priorities, not you. Feel free to disagree.",
  "title": "Proton doesn't really support anonymous payments. Let's demand that they do"
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