• John@lemmy.ca
    3·
    5 hours ago

    I think some of them might be improvements, but moving from one commercial online service to another commercial online service isn’t a big improvement. The best way to protect your privacy is to not spray your private information at commercial providers who can turn evil at any time.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
      1·
      3 hours ago

      I do agree with you, but I see this list as a first step for those who want to improve [but are not sure where to begin]. It provides easy alternatives to common uses. While some are commercial to commercial, they’re spyware to nonspyware, which is a great Step 1.

    • valar@lemmy.ca
      1·
      4 hours ago

      IMO moving from Google to anything else is an improvement. Ideally sure you’d end up on non-commercial everything… But perfect is the enemy of good

  • pasdechance@jlai.lu
    1·
    5 hours ago

    It is amazing just how many applications, software, and services we need to just do stuff. Getting rid of Google is always a step in the right direction.

    I would suggest not advertising what you run on your devices, but if someone does, take a moment before replying because it is possible you’re being baited into an debate with a stranger on Lemmy, or they might have never heard a bad thing about the software they use.

    Mullvad has been in the news recently, Proton’s CEO has certain political views, mentioning Signal is a good way to start a debate, and e/OS is frequently late with security updates. But, all way better than just using the Google suite.

    What I’d like to see is a site like the one used to make this graphic, but with some sort of threat model questionnaire to help people get started.

      • Nightrider@lemmy.ca
        1·
        3 hours ago

        This is the best rebuttal. I might change my opinion a little bit on this. But as a service that still passes data through someones centralized network, there is no real guarantee for full privacy. But it does look to be ran by a rockstar with a descent view on privacy first. So I will yield to signal.

        The problem with proton is that centralized service. Proton has given up user data before and ideally if your trusting a platform for privacy reasons then you dont want them to have a mechanism for handing over your data. So proton is still a platform that needs work before it can be what it promises to be. That said it is probably still better than using non privacy centric services like gmail and so on.