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For some reason this was also a breaking point for me. I've switched to Firefox and Duck Duck Go. It's a small thing, but boy do you start to feel like a second rate citizen fast. The state of extensions on Firefox is a mess. I can get the usual privacy extensions easily enough, but things like using media keys to control videos playing in the back ground. Or how in the phone app of Firefox you need to pull up the si…
For some reason this was also a breaking point for me. I've switched to Firefox and Duck Duck Go. It's a small thing, but boy do you start to feel like a second rate citizen fast. The state of extensions on Firefox is a mess. I can get the usual privacy extensions easily enough, but things like using media keys to control videos playing in the back ground. Or how in the phone app of Firefox you need to pull up the si…
Started the same project (-> FF + DDG), but i have to admit I'm super happy with it. Gmail is going to be hard though.
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I understand that this has been at the heart of the Cambridge Analytica political manipulation scandal. The basic methodology is take a large sample of people whose big 5 traits you know, and look at their browsing history. Through this you create a model: people visiting x websites are statistically more likely to be y personality. Then when they look at your patterns of web use, they are able to assign you a person…
Ok, I disagree here. The data analysis done so far describes what you look at, but not why. AFAIK CA identified which party you were likely to vote for, and what concerns (gun control, Clinton Foundation, Islam, etc) concerned you. Mostly just classify the topic of links people post. There's a big jump to determining your levels of Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, Extroversion. Do people post…
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Ok, I disagree here. The data analysis done so far describes what you look at, but not why. AFAIK CA identified which party you were likely to vote for, and what concerns (gun control, Clinton Foundation, Islam, etc) concerned you. Mostly just classify the topic of links people post. There's a big jump to determining your levels of Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, Extroversion. Do people post…
Your disagreement here, as far as I understand it, is the central point of disagreement in the debate around the impact of the FB/Google on behavior. On one side, you have people saying that internet use can be indicative of personality type. Others say no: because they can’t discern the reason behind why you do what you do. I have done some statistics, multiple regression and the like a long time ago, but I’m not en…
There's a large jump there between an interest and "Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, Extroversion." I don't think any amount of "throw big data and other buzzword at it" will reduce that jump, because you're more likely to train against other attributes of your population than their personality.
For some reason this was also a breaking point for me. I've switched to Firefox and Duck Duck Go. It's a small thing, but boy do you start to feel like a second rate citizen fast. The state of extensions on Firefox is a mess. I can get the usual privacy extensions easily enough, but things like using media keys to control videos playing in the back ground. Or how in the phone app of Firefox you need to pull up the si…
To replace Google Keep, you definitely want to checkout https://standardnotes.org/ - Going back to Google Keep would make me feel like a second class citizen today... As for the Pixel it's ok, just switch to LineageOS, but you'll want F-Droid + Yalp, or F-Droid + Aptoide if you feel adventurous (awesome project but they are just getting started. Drive... I'd recommend Nextcloud, but then you need to choose a provider…
If we can get support for self-contained inline images/attachments, and inter-note linking then I'll be all-in.
For some reason this was also a breaking point for me. I've switched to Firefox and Duck Duck Go. It's a small thing, but boy do you start to feel like a second rate citizen fast. The state of extensions on Firefox is a mess. I can get the usual privacy extensions easily enough, but things like using media keys to control videos playing in the back ground. Or how in the phone app of Firefox you need to pull up the si…
If you want Chrome-like features without Chrome then I would recommend the Brave browser. It's built on top of Chromium which is what Chrome is built on top of and it has built-in privacy protection by blocking all tracking and advertising code. Version 1 of the browser will be introducing Chrome extensions to the browser so the experience will be very similar.
For some reason this was also a breaking point for me. I've switched to Firefox and Duck Duck Go. It's a small thing, but boy do you start to feel like a second rate citizen fast. The state of extensions on Firefox is a mess. I can get the usual privacy extensions easily enough, but things like using media keys to control videos playing in the back ground. Or how in the phone app of Firefox you need to pull up the si…
I have been trying (not entirely successfully) to move away from Google for a while now. Gmail replaced by Fastmail. I used to think Fastmail's interface to be clunky - but no longer. It was never an issue, because you can very easily use any mail client, each with their own 'app password'. Drawbacks: GMail's filtering it top notch, for both spam and their pre-defined categories (updates, social, etc). I never realiz…
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It gets thrown around a lot and in my opinion for good reason - I've switched to Fastmail[1] myself. I've got the $5/mo account because I wanted to bring my own domains. Had it for a while just forwarding everything to my gmail but have now cut the forwarding and switched fully. If you're in the Apple ecosystem the app I attribute to finally moving was Spark[2], which I discovered after Google announced it was killin…
Doesn't spark scan your email box like GMail used to? I haven't found anything recent stating they have stopped that practice.
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Roundcube is everything but not a replacement for Gmail. I have my Gmail account logged in on 3 PC's going back to IMAP and Thunderbird never.
While I agree that roundcube is really basic when compared with Gmail, I'd say that if you follow the convention that Gmail is nothing more than a webmail client (i.e.: a place you access through a browser to receive, read and send emails) then roundcube is exactly that. No bells or whistles though.
I could run a mail server myself, but I don't believe that I can achieve comparable levels of spam filtering without excessive effort, so I would need someone else to provide this service.
And recently I deleted my last Google account after moving domains, voice number and email to other providers.
These are marketing companies and you are their product. This will only get worse. Opt out now.