They had to, in order to comply with the Swiss law. The discussion you linked links to an official Proton page, so at least they're honest about the data they must disclose
If you are in the US and want to use European alternatives to avoid surveillance by US tech companies, then the NSA has free rein to intercept/decode/record everything you do that crosses US country borders. Also everything outside of US borders is considered fair game. Maybe the same is true of Europe and European borders? Even if your data is in a safe place, do the API's take the data across borders when used? Do you need to continually check the network route your data travels across to make sure it stays within borders?
No, it's not about surveillance avoidance. It's about US surveillance avoidance.
Also, Spotify is listed under "More European alternatives to US tech giants" not "Privacy-focused European alternatives". So they're not even stating it's privacy focused, they're just saying it's not USA.
But I do agree with you, if I wanted to avoid music surveillance in general I would avoid Spotify.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43578106
Especially given other administrations’ attempts to stretch surveillance authority, which happened under… less boisterous actors.
But I do agree with you, if I wanted to avoid music surveillance in general I would avoid Spotify.
Feeding your personal data to european spyware to "own the burgers"...
I would choose no surveillance if I could though
So far, the anti-E2EE proposals have been rejected, but we don't know for how long that will last.
https://mullvad.net/en/chatcontrol
https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/114279301331656579
Why be raped by a stranger [1], when you can be raped by someone you know ? /s
[1] although, given the collaborations of CIA and NSA, i wouldn't consider USA a stranger.