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

Re:Degoogle: Alternatives to Google products, privacy tips, ... by tut-urut-utut on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @11:46AM (#30529367)

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.

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Re:Degoogle: Alternatives to Google products, privacy tips, ... by drudoo on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @01:26PM (#30530850)

What are you missing ? Been using protonmail for a few years and it has the same features as my old provider (wasn’t gmail).

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Re:Degoogle: Alternatives to Google products, privacy tips, ... by tut-urut-utut on Thursday March 03, 2022 @06:49AM (#30539748)

Main one is searching. I tried it and was unable to search inside message content, only message subjects.

Last time I checked, IMAP protocol was not available, which requires installing on ProtonMail app.

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Re:Degoogle: Alternatives to Google products, privacy tips, ... by drudoo on Thursday March 03, 2022 @06:59AM (#30539815)

In order to stay encrypted only subjects can be searched. With the bridge app, you can use imap through a desktop applications. I use thunderbird which also lets you search message content.

I’ve never seen this as an issue.

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Re:Degoogle: Alternatives to Google products, privacy tips, ... by tut-urut-utut on Thursday March 03, 2022 @08:39AM (#30540799)

I understand that, you can't search something in web app if web app stores data in an encrypted format.

It's a classical security vs. convenience tradeoff.

I barely use desktop clients for email, except for backup. It's either web app or mobile app, and here Protonmail doesn't work for me.

My use case would be a trusted non-megacorp in non-eyes country with standard security. Something like for example Fastmail based in Switzerland.

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Re:Degoogle: Alternatives to Google products, privacy tips, ... by Reitet00 on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @01:01PM (#30530459)

I've seen people mention Migadu but I haven't tried them myself.

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Re:Degoogle: Alternatives to Google products, privacy tips, ... by arminiusreturns on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @01:57PM (#30531273)

I can recommend CTemplar, but I'm not sure what other features you are referring to, but it might be worth checking out.

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Re:Degoogle: Alternatives to Google products, privacy tips, ... by joemazerino on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @12:09PM (#30529708)

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

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