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How about FastMail? They have a stellar email service. They also offer contacts and calendars, though I don't personally use those (I use iCloud for that).
Yep, migrated from Gmail and very happily so :)
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I think you are correct that VPNs are a sort of half-solution. There are a lot of people that think anything less than 100% isn't worth your time, so they suggest TOR - but TOR has all sorts of annoying limitations that preclude daily usage. Absolute solutions are seldom worth the 10x extra effort they frequently require. Another set of half-solutions can be seen here which will make you more secure... https://www.cl…
Do you have a good write up on how to get all that setup by any chance? Also, any body has a comparison of Brave vs Firefox when it comes to privacy?
This has the added benefit of being good for the whole network (your whole house) including gaming systems and smart TVs.
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There’s a lot of gross stuff that your ISPs (which includes your mobile phone provider) do to further monetize your relationship with them, and having a VPN can negate that. ISPs can observe your DNS lookups to their servers and assemble a profile on you based on the domain names you look up, and put you into a series of audiences that marketers can then use (for a fee) for ad targeting. ISPs can also observer your D…
> ISPs can also observer your DNS lookups to Google’s or anyone else’s public DNS servers. edw, could you elaborate on that, please? I thought changing to public DNS servers like OpenDNS provides some security from ISP tracking.
(I suppose this is one of the problems that DNS-over-HTTPS is designed to fix.)
Come on Mozilla, hurry up! I want to give you money for goods and services (I also donate monthly [1]), but I'm not that interested in a VPN (I can and do also pay Mullvad). Give me that real internet stuff - email, calendar, file sync, chat(?) - give me Firefox Premium. Bundle in the Lockwise password manager. I'd pay good money to see a company fill the void of paid, privacy first essential internet services and I…
Come on Mozilla, hurry up! I want to give you money for goods and services (I also donate monthly [1]), but I'm not that interested in a VPN (I can and do also pay Mullvad). Give me that real internet stuff - email, calendar, file sync, chat(?) - give me Firefox Premium. Bundle in the Lockwise password manager. I'd pay good money to see a company fill the void of paid, privacy first essential internet services and I…
I still want Mozilla to release a Android keyboard.
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Yep, migrated from Gmail and very happily so :)
I want to migrate from Gmail but I have my Gmail address tied up to so many things. How do you make the move ?
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Nice, witch shady Marketing-Firm are you working for? Any point's for 'Blokada' being more trustworthy than AT&T ;)
Just a happy user :) Blokada is pretty popular for Ad blocking on Android. And it's open source too: https://github.com/blokadaorg/blokada
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> ISPs can also observer your DNS lookups to Google’s or anyone else’s public DNS servers. edw, could you elaborate on that, please? I thought changing to public DNS servers like OpenDNS provides some security from ISP tracking.
Traffic between you and the public DNS servers isn't encrypted, so your ISP can still read it. (I suppose this is one of the problems that DNS-over-HTTPS is designed to fix.)
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DNS-over-HTTPS can be enabled in Firefox via Network settings, turns out.
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> Is it to avoid your ISP collecting browsing data off you and selling it? Perhaps using 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 as your DNS might be good enough. Wouldn't your ISP still see what IP's you are visiting? Then, your ISP could just reverse DNS that IP to get the domain name, right?
This time when I changed internet service providers from Cox to AT&t fiber, I was shocked to find that I could not change my DNS to point to the OpenDNS servers!
Come on Mozilla, hurry up! I want to give you money for goods and services (I also donate monthly [1]), but I'm not that interested in a VPN (I can and do also pay Mullvad). Give me that real internet stuff - email, calendar, file sync, chat(?) - give me Firefox Premium. Bundle in the Lockwise password manager. I'd pay good money to see a company fill the void of paid, privacy first essential internet services and I…