… And damm it feels good! Before starting this step, I had to migrate to a better browser that respects privacy (Brave, because🖕Firefox, I mean Mozilla at this point doesn’t even want you to be safe on the web anymore!) And a better “Google-style” ecosystem (Proton is the best they have an email service, a calendar, a password manager and the holy drive).

The last step was YouTube. How to do without a Google account? Well, thanks to Piped + Yattee, the best combo I had a hard time finding. For those who do not know, Yattee is a great app that is an interface for Piped on Apple devices, besides, do you consider Apple to be respectful of privacy? Me yes 👍

In short, today I am the happiest of men 🤩. If you wonder which search engine I use instead of Google, it’s Qwant, because, even if they use Bing’s API like DuckDuckGo, they work on their own index and they even start putting a little AI in their search engine, which doesn’t tell the user to eat non-toxic glue of course 😉. They also made an excellent redesign.

  • OnePhoenix@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    If you don’t think Mozilla cares about your privacy anymore, yet you use Qwant, you’re probably not going to want to hear that the two partnered up last month.

    I’ve been using Startpage with positive results.

    There’s also hardened Firefox solutions.

    I second Proton… I love 'em. I use them for email and VPN. I always have a hard time putting all my eggs in one basket though, and try to avoid using any one ecosystem for all my organization. For example, I use an offline app for my calendar, and a self-hosted home solution for file management.

    Great to see another person giving the one finger salute to big tech. Not sure about your ideas on Apple respecting your privacy though - they haven’t given me that impression but maybe I’m misinformed.

    • kixik@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      mozilla private derivatives such as librewolf on the desktop and mull on android I just fine. So FF keeps being relevant as not being a derivative from chromium/chrome, it can remain apart from google disabling adds removing extensions.

      So yes, FF is food to thrive, and so its derivatives will…