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Instead of being so defensive about it you could just answer the question.. Did you have so much free time you decided to try signing up for a service you had no intention of using just so you could complain about it?

Seems a fair question to ask someone who makes a post to direct people away from a service under the presumption that they were trying to use it, only to find in the comments that they already use a different service that they not only enjoy, but are happy to freely advertise for.

Also, your justification for their lack of crypto payments is that they use a payment system they designed themselves, which I find funny since most of the complaints I see about Proton (granted, not yours) is the unverifiability of their operations, leaning on "Just trust me, bro." which is the same thing as this site's payment processing system. 🤭

Are there any non-self-hosted services where that's not the case?

This is an unfortunate truth. I occasionally teach a short course on basic computer networking with a short segment on Unix/Linux to students ranging from ages 18-25 and only about 1 or 2 out of every class of 20 even knows what an "operating system" is.

Why are you trying to sign up for Proton if you already use another provider?

So, they operate a repo of open source code as a cover for their internal repo of completely different code?

I installed it a week or so ago.. it was alright. Didn't care much for the DE animations, switched back to Mint the same day. Good for the lulz (and on-demand waifu pics).

Love the brevity.

There is a soft tag built into the post itself: the title. It says "Ikkitousen." If you know what Ikkitousen is, you know it's an ecchi anime. If you don't know what Ikkitousen is, you have to decide for yourself if the post is worth opening blind. On an anime community it should come as no surprise that people would post characters from ecchi (and not necessarily hard-defined NSFW) shows.

Though I don't disagree with your suggestion for having more user control, the root of this is entirely a personal problem that others shouldn't be expected to accommodate for you. Go into your display settings and turn off thumbnails and be self-policing in what links you click on.