Ask HN: How to ditch Big Tech for secure, privacy-focused alternatives?

Re:Ask HN: How to ditch Big Tech for secure, privacy-focused... by dotcoma on Friday January 24, 2025 @06:20PM (#42817898)

Tuta.com for emails, Mega for backups, Bitwarden for passwords, Iridium as my browser.

Deleted Facebook, never used Instagram, Snapchat nor TikTok, I access YouTube via DuckDuckGo’s ad-less interface, I am quitting X.

You can’t really do without WhatsApp, at least in my experience.

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Re:Ask HN: How to ditch Big Tech for secure, privacy-focused... by dori23 on Friday January 24, 2025 @07:15PM (#42818213)

Thanks for sharing! I'll look into these.

A noob q: Is there a reason why you choose Iridium over Firefox for your browser? I've been using Firefox and thought they were pretty good with security & privacy.

I was thinking Telegram instead of WhatsApp, but there are so many WhatsApp-only groups that I would miss out if I left. You're probably right about it being irreplaceable atm.

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Re:Ask HN: How to ditch Big Tech for secure, privacy-focused... by dotcoma on Saturday January 25, 2025 @04:24PM (#42824980)

Iridium: I use bookmarks quite a bit and like the way Chrome (and Iridium) do bookmarks.

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