Ask HN: How to move away from Google • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How to move away from Google

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Post by zorrolovsky » Thu, Mar 31, 2022, 8:24 PM UTC

FireInsight wrote: post #209

zorrolovsky wrote: post #12

Not sure if you do it for privacy, ethical or practical reasons, but here's my journey: I removed my life from Big Tech (FB, TW, Gmail, YT, G Drive, MS, and other anti-user/spyware/malware companies). It was surprisingly easy to do and refreshing spiritually. First, philosophy: this article resonated so much with me that I made the brave step of deleting my big tech accounts and switching to Linux: https://medium.com…

The active maintainers of privacytools.io 'recently' split up into a new more community-focused site due to inactivity of the founder. https://privacyguides.org/ Read more here: - https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/pnhn4a/rpriv... - https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/pnh9n8/what_...

Thanks for the update! I was not aware of the situation and just joined the new community. I like the way they start the new page by suggesting users to create a threat model. My threat model is almost zero (I don't do anything interesting that deserves surveillance) so to me, it's a matter of principle. I rather pay 1€/month rather than having Google scannning my personal emails. I rather donate to Linux Mint rather than having Microsoft monetize my desktop experience with crapware and ads.

Re: Ask HN: How to move away from Google

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Post by prima-facie » Sat, Apr 02, 2022, 12:02 AM UTC

throwmeariver1 wrote: post #119

dividedbyzero wrote: post #25

I'm still looking for an alternative e-mail provider that is more privacy-conscious than Google, still works with ordinary IMAP and is based in the EU so I get to actually benefit from EU data protection. Haven't found one that ticks all boxes yet, but going with a US company doesn't appear to change much as I'm not a US citizen and hence fair game once my data is on US servers and I guess it inevitably will end up t…

zoho.eu is quite nice and a different entity than zoho.com

This is the first time I'm hearing this. Can you please elaborate? Thanks

Re: Ask HN: How to move away from Google

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Post by IYasha » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 9:38 AM UTC

keraf wrote: post #36

I moved away from Google a few years ago. I'm using the following alternatives: - Email: ProtonMail - Contacts, Calendar, Online storage: NextCloud hosted by Hetzner ( https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share ) - Phone: LineageOS (Android) -- App stores: F-Droid for most apps and Aurora store for the occasional non F-Droid apps (like the ProtonMail client) -- Maps: MagicEarth (not open source but privacy friendl…

-- Search: DuckDuckGo They've become more and more bolitically biased and I'd recommend to move away even from them. There are searx and MetaGer.

-- Messaging: how about Conversations? It's pretty out-of-the-boxy. But I have to admit, no working voice calls.

Re: Ask HN: How to move away from Google

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Post by uoaei » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 5:36 PM UTC

b3nji wrote: post #207

uoaei wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought "self-hosted" meant zero cloud providers, i.e., running on a home server with a firewall.

That is a good point, I thought self hosted meant you are the person in charge, and nobody else can access, mess with, or bugger it up but you. You have corrected my assumption, thank you. You could take their NixOS script and run it on your own Raspberry Pi 4, I guess?

Well after that message I did some digging and it seems like it can be used both ways.

Re: Ask HN: How to move away from Google

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Post by freshpots » Wed, Apr 06, 2022, 3:11 PM UTC

bovermyer wrote: post #123

freshpots wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.theverge.com/2014/4/11/5605734/dropbox-ceo-defen...

What's your point? You posted a URL as if that was self-evident commentary.

A war criminal was hired to the board of Dropbox. You couldn't ascertain that in seconds?