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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by frogman@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

We're reaching the end of an era wherein billions of dollars of investor money was shovelled into tech startups to build large user-bases, and now those companies (now monoliths) are beginning to constrict their user-bases and squeeze for every single penny they can possibly extract. Fair or not.

Now more than ever, it's important for us to step back and reconsider whether we want to be billboards for these companies anymore.

For anyone unfamiliar, some good resources to have when starting your degoogling journey are below:

Privacy Guides - A list of privacy-respecting services you can use.

Plexus - A crowdsourced information bank of service compatibility with degoogled devices.

This random PDF - A study from 2018 detailing data that Google tracks about its' users.

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[-] nickb333@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Long time Fastmail user here. Where is it failing with respect to privacy?

[-] pvr@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Love Fastmail! I used Protonmail for a while but their development is soooo slow and they never seem to be able to deliver things on time. Promising features that are years late.

[-] whenever8186@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Proton is awesome. Yeah they are a bit slow with new features but they've been rolling out quite a bit recently. In the last few years we've got VPN, calendar, drive and proton pass. They even upgraded my premium account to Proton Unlimited (which gets like >500 GB storage) for free for no apparent reason other than a 'thank you'.

The big one I was waiting for was Proton Drive, as Google drive was the last Google service I was really using, so the free storage upgrade was just the icing on the cake.

I'd use Proton pass too, but I'm already paying for Bitwarden family account and am pretty happy with that.

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