ProtonVPN warns against face scans on 8 major platforms — mocked for its own killswitch advice
wavefnx · x · 2026-10-07
ProtonVPN listed Discord, X, YouTube, Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, Instagram and Roblox, warning users not to scan their faces for them amid spreading age-verification requirements. A user hit back with Proton's own logic — "don't connect to the internet when there's a killswitch on" — highlighting the tension between privacy warnings and unusable advice.
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