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How people will accept having their entire lives scanned, categorised and sold off to the highest bidder is beyond me. Fastmail - or any other paid product - for the win.
Absolutely!
I pay for Tuta, and it works great! I pay €3.60 because I haven't fully committed, and I'll probably prepay a year to get that down to €3/month. It's really not that expensive, and I get to use my own domain as well (so [email protected]).
I've been slowly trying to claw my workspace email back to my Gmail account so I can stop paying for workspace and move it to proton, unfortunately I have a metric buttload of Android apps and Google auth wrapped around my workspace emails.
Yeah, I recently went through a lot of that pain. But I'm now 99% gmail-free, and most of the stuff forwarded from gmail is junk.
yeah my workspace has a catchall with forwards. I had practically abandoned my old gmail, but I need a viable google account for my phone
That's fair, and it's certainly a process.
I largely went cold-turkey and got a phone w/ GrapheneOS and refused to install Google Play. I replaced a bunch of apps with FOSS alternatives available through F-Droid, and I have a handful I can't replace installed through Aurora w/o my Google Account. I made a separate profile for Google Play apps, but that only has like 2 apps in it that I rarely use.
It's surprisingly functional, but it did totally suck during the transition period. But I'm mostly free of Google crap now, with the main leftover being Google Sheets because I like the
=GOOGLEFINANCE()feature and haven't found a replacement.Nice tips, thanks!
This is why the dark ages line is only half true. Paying for what you consume is normal anywhere else. Bringing that back to the internet would be a good thing IMO.
Me too. It was painfully obvious what Google will do once they launched Gmail and I never used it because of that.
cutting ads out of your life cuts them off at the ankles. so what if they know in some database that I bought something, I don't see their ads, so it's useless info.
The question should be "How do countries/EU accept most of their citizens surveilled by a monopolistic company subject to a foreign country's intelligence agency?".
I don't think it's my personal responsibility to care unless I'm casting a vote. I don't have enough extra energy to avoid surveillance anyway. Expecting billions of people each to take personal responsibility of finding out how to de-google, de-apple, de-microsoft, de-amazon, de-meta is too much. What percentage of people can install and configure Linux and Graphene OS and move everything from normal social media to Lemmy and Mastodon? We see the answer in current reality.
Yeah very fair points. Although in defense of the EU it’s not like it isn’t fighting back.