I love how this always pops-up and how I always reply with these 2 links: - https://prism-break.org/ - https://droid-break.info/
OpenDNS is on prismbreaks avoid list! Why is that?
I use opendns enterprise at work and free at home.
Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google
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Re: Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google
#12For chat, consider setting up your own Murmur server [1] and use Mumble to do voice and text chat. It is not has happy-clicky as Discord, but the sound quality is great and you can have thousands of people on a tiny VM. It is very easy to deploy. It looks like people have created ansible playbooks for this too. [2] [1] - https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page [2] - https://github.com/systemli/ansible-role-mumble P.S…
Mumble is pretty crummy for text chat from my experience. I still use it for voice on a fairly frequent basis, but having very ephemeral text logs (on client restart), and a lack of pinging users makes it a huge pain to use for text.
I would happily still use IRC however.
Re: Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google
#13For me the biggest problem is Youtube. The other solutions are not in the same level of quality/quantity. DuckDuckGo feels way better as a product to me (using sometimes the bang to use google in privacy mode). And ProtonMail is good enough.
I switched to duckduckgo for a few weeks, and I gave up and went back to google. The results were just so much worse. I had to wade through a sea of stackoverflow results to get to the one piece of official documentation on page 2.
Re: Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google
#14For chat, consider setting up your own Murmur server [1] and use Mumble to do voice and text chat. It is not has happy-clicky as Discord, but the sound quality is great and you can have thousands of people on a tiny VM. It is very easy to deploy. It looks like people have created ansible playbooks for this too. [2] [1] - https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page [2] - https://github.com/systemli/ansible-role-mumble P.S…
Mumble is pretty crummy for text chat from my experience. I still use it for voice on a fairly frequent basis, but having very ephemeral text logs (on client restart), and a lack of pinging users makes it a huge pain to use for text. I would happily still use IRC however.
Yeah, I prefer IRC too. I ended up shutting down all my IRC servers. Most folks moved to Discord/Slack and it just wasn't worth the effort to maintain them for my use case.
I only suggest murmur / mumble because they are super east to set up.
Re: Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google
#15Looks like a mix of alternatives picked from some site and collated here without verification. Some may not exist/work — checked some random links and found privateemail throwing an error on registration and bravos having some statement about working on something new, with the old one unavailable. I’m also not sure if Discord, Slack, etc., really count as private alternatives (well, there are people who diss Telegram…
Same with Notion. If you read their privacy policy, data is not stored encrypted at rest, so I wouldn't view them as privacy-friendly.
Re: Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google
#16I've been looking for an alternative to Google Docs/Sheets/Slides/etc for a while and I've seen these couple of suggestions come up a few times. Each time I look at them, I find their websites to be incomprehensible to what their product actually _is_. The worst of them is Coda. Looking at their landing page, I have NO idea what Coda is or does. None of the other alternatives seem to do what I want easily. I want to type in a URL, edit a spreadsheet, and close my browser. I'm sure one of these alternatives does exactly that, but it isn't obvious from their home pages that that is the case.
Classic startup landing page design where they forget to explain what their product is to potential users/clients.
Re: Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google
#17https://alternativeto.net/ not all results will be privacy focused. some other alternatives Browser waterfox and other forks search yacy email self hosted various vps serves sheets/docs own/next cloud. libre/open office video hooktube invidius adwords a-ads dns opennic drive sia ipfs storj... hangouts keybase bitmessage tox images pixeldrain(sia)
Don’t host your own email. Unless you don’t want anyone to be able receive your emails.
Re: Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google
#18I love how this always pops-up and how I always reply with these 2 links: - https://prism-break.org/ - https://droid-break.info/
Privacytools is another one worth mentioning
Re: Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google
#19For me the biggest problem is Youtube. The other solutions are not in the same level of quality/quantity. DuckDuckGo feels way better as a product to me (using sometimes the bang to use google in privacy mode). And ProtonMail is good enough.
If it's any help, NewPipe [0] is a FOSS YouTube client for Android which doesn't require an account, doesn't require Google Play Services, and doesn't (!) display ads. Yes, it has subscription support and you can import/export that list to keep it backed up. It also has a TON of features, like PiP, background play (for video and audio), downloading, and much, much more. Ivory [1] might be the closest iOS equivalent,…
I love NewPipe, it works fantastically.
I am nervous that Google will find a way to kill it if it gets big enough. It's not exactly an alternative to YouTube, it's more of a band-aid.
Re: Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google
#20For chat, what about https://keybase.io ?