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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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best google like ecosystem? (self.privacy)

submitted 4 days ago by goofsqueak to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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i posted this on reddit before but i wanted to get your opinion on this

i use my familys google drive/photo thing (i cant really change) and i obviously want us to switch, but my mom (who take care of this whole thing) says that she likes the ecosystem that google has. Like she uses her calendar and stuff. The closest ive found is proton, which is fine, but it doesnt really have the best rep. Any alternatives?

BTW: im not gonna self-host since im not comfortable hosting such a big thing like this

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[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago

The tech is good. But the pushing of encryption in email services disables the use of other mail clients on free accounts (where the bridge doesn't work), while the encryption is useless when communicating with any other mail service (with email you mostly communicate with corpos anyway). It just seems like it's a cash grab, but it might be useful for activist groups.

I'm still looking for a free (at least as much as it can be), private and open email service which is way harder than I expected.

I have a protonmail ACC (not using it as I need a powerful mail client, Infomaniak (very capitalist lately), which I also don't use much.