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RE: Living in a Post-Google World
Good food for thought. Thanks for sharing your list. Cloud storage is the one really tricky area as it is soooo convenient to be able to access your stuff wherever and whenever. But lacking privacy alternatives.
I tried to extract myself from the locked down world of ios a few years back so apple not an option for me...
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Valid reply re-locked down but Google’s Play is as locked down as Google is strict only with services which could harm its own products.
Yet, in recent times many especially open source devs have started releasing unsigned apps (easy to sign if you have an own dev.apple ID or not difficult to find someone who signs them for you) and since Apple started its Enterprise program beta apps have many more test keys as well.
Personally I do prefer Apple’s limitations in exchange for its position on privacy tho. Everything stays on my device. By default.
And I need not worry about the service still tracking it in the background despite turned off, as Google has been known to do.
But I would consider a mature open source mobile OS. Mature and with solid UX.
Yes, I much prefer apple products and moved to the 'dark-side' of android really to explore the wider range of hardware and to have a foot in both camps so to speak (android phone/tablets + Mac pc).
I've been hearing more and more about duckduckgo (they really need to change the name...surely?) and fastmail looks interesting (I've tinkered with protonmail). Just need to crack the cloud storage ;)
Protonmail is nice. I considered including it but I thought since most want the free version 500MB wouldn’t be enough, nor would they see value in the “password workaround” when sending to non-PGP addresses.
If you don’t need your own domain Fastmail is only $3/month (and 2GB). Obviously, ads free otherwise it wouldn’t have made it here.
DDG... the name apparently just came during a walk, and without any particular reason. The founder liked it and stuck with it. Unless you have specific longtail queries it is absolutely usable and does not constantly give you Quora as top result because you clicked three Quora links in recent weeks. For the longtail queries, use !bangs. DDG isn’t that good yet at those but with the !bangs you can query the site’s own search engine. Even !steem is available.
Thanks again, appreciate your insights. Useful topic.
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