These are good if you're seeking to replace a single Google product, but if you're invested in the Google ecosystem it's a real pain in the ass to stitch together 15 individual alternative products. It sucks.
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#42Currently shopping for an email host. For 2-3 accounts, Protonmail is pretty pricey, compared with tutanota... I've heard good things about protonmail, but does anybody have experience with tutanota or any of the other alternatives listed?
Hey.com is a different approach to email, and subscription based so you aren't paying with your data.
It’s also more expensive than ProtonMail or Tutanota.
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#43I'll consider Google alternatives when there is a better alternative. Until then I use the best technology. Do we really need these same posts every other week?
> I'll consider Google alternatives when there is a better alternative.
Sure, you do you, nothing wrong with that. I'd rather use 'inferior' technology if that means better privacy standards.
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#44I know its a weird ask, but can anyone tell me some privacy focused yet free alts to Google Finance?
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#46Currently shopping for an email host. For 2-3 accounts, Protonmail is pretty pricey, compared with tutanota... I've heard good things about protonmail, but does anybody have experience with tutanota or any of the other alternatives listed?
ProtonMail and Tutanota don’t primarily support IMAP (well, ProtonMail does as an option with an additional “bridge application“).
Take a look at Posteo.de (if you’re fine with no support for custom domains) and mailbox.org and runbox.com if you want custom domain support.
If you’re fine with the provider being in the U.S. and want a cheap solution for multiple domains, then mxroute may be good. It also has some very cheap plans and offers going on (check the lowendtalk.com forums).
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#47These are good if you're seeking to replace a single Google product, but if you're invested in the Google ecosystem it's a real pain in the ass to stitch together 15 individual alternative products. It sucks.
The list is a bit fragmented. It doesn't really give Nextcloud enough credit. Nextcloud can replace _most_ of google in one shot -- calendar, reminders, contacts, drive, docs, hangouts, maps, photos, and more (https://apps.nextcloud.com/). I think it's not as popular because 1. it's not free (as in beer, but it is free as in speech) and 2. it's kind of fiddly to get up and running. You can either host it yourself or sign up with a provider, but either way it's not super intuitive and nowhere near as polished as what we're used to these days. But, if you're looking to get off of Google and don't want to sign up for 10 different things, Nextcloud is worth a look.
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#48Google is becoming more annoying by the day.
It has become customary for it to force the user to accept privacy-leaking features by grouping them together with other useful features. This kind of sneaky behavior I don't like at all.
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#49I've tried really hard to not use google for search. But DDG is bad. I have it set as my default search. I find myself either: 1) trying duck duck go and then immediately re-searching in google to actually get relevant answers. 2) skipping the search bar and going immediately to google when I know DDG just isn't going to work. Feels like back in the olden days when you had to try Altavista, Lycos and Yahoo to find wh…
Isn't DDG just a frontend for bing.com?
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
you can '!g search' in ddg to search google instead
I wonder if they log those searches. To be clear: in a privacy-friendly way. It would be a treasure trove to them as they basically get statistics on which searches do bad on their engine. Focus on the most '!g'd search term, and then just work down the list.
"""We also save searches, but again, not in a personally identifiable way, as we do not store IP addresses or unique User agent strings. We use aggregate, non-personal search data to improve things like misspellings."""