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Degoogle: Alternatives to Google products, privacy tips, tricks, links

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Re: Degoogle: Alternatives to Google products, privacy tips, tricks, links

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Post by spupe »

When these things come up I always wonder, why do we believe what these services promise? For example, Duckduckgo is listed here and pretty much everywhere else as the best search engine for privacy, because they have a stated no-log policy. But there are no audits, and as far as I know we have no independent confirmation of this at all.

I find it odd because when it comes to VPNs, there are independent audits and other measures, such as hosting in non-compliant countries such as Switzerland, that at least add some level of evidence behind a company's claims.

Re: Degoogle: Alternatives to Google products, privacy tips, tricks, links

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Post by joemazerino »

tut-urut-utut wrote: post #4

Nice. I was looking for an Email alternative based in a "non-eyes" country, but couldn't find anything except ProtonMail, which is fine from the privacy standpoint, but doesn't provide many features that one would expect from an Email provider.

The webpage is available on github. Make suggestions with a PR.

Re: Degoogle: Alternatives to Google products, privacy tips, tricks, links

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Post by tych0 »

foxbarrington wrote: post #5

For anyone that has email on a custom domain, what do you use instead of Google Calendar? Nextcloud?

Fastmail has great calendar (CalDAV), contacts (whatever the open protocol for this is) support in addition to their e-mail. I migrated from Google Calendar & friends several years ago and have had no issues.

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Post by malfist »

macintux wrote: post #10

I know HN shouldn’t be used to complain about the site, but at least can anyone explain the goal of scroll hijacking here? Using the site on my iPhone is torture.

Trying to click on links was awful in desktop firefox. There was a :hover effect that bolded the link and then moved it like 20-30px taking it out of the cursor.

Re: Degoogle: Alternatives to Google products, privacy tips, tricks, links

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Post by deadalus »

asjdflakjsdf wrote: post #3

Surprised not see Brave listed as an alternative to Google Chrome. Its a fantastic browser

Also surprised not see 'Brave Search' listed as an alternative to Google Search. Its a fantastic search engine and it is only getting better.

Re: Degoogle: Alternatives to Google products, privacy tips, tricks, links

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Post by benrapscallion »

timokoesters wrote: post #7

I'm looking for a self-hosted service to host family photos that allows easy uploading (something that non-techies can use). We are currently using Nextcloud, but the auto uploads often result in conflicts and Nextcloud in general runs very slowly on our small server. Any ideas?

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Re: Degoogle: Alternatives to Google products, privacy tips, tricks, links

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Post by ajford »

timokoesters wrote: post #7

I'm looking for a self-hosted service to host family photos that allows easy uploading (something that non-techies can use). We are currently using Nextcloud, but the auto uploads often result in conflicts and Nextcloud in general runs very slowly on our small server. Any ideas?

I've been looking myself. What I have in my notes as the best option so far is tied between:

- PhotoPrism - https://photoprism.app/

- Piwigo - https://piwigo.org/

PhotoPrism seems a lot more polished and has some face/location tagging that sounds useful (I make frequent use of the search feature in Google Photos and will likely miss that feature the most).

While both have their own upload system internally, PhotoPrism has native integration with the PhotoSync (https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html) app for sycning, which seems promising.

Piwigo has support for a few different sync methods, and extensions for more. ymmv.

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