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blackeagle603
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Google: secure alternatives

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Specifically, what you like as a (more) secure alternative to Google Docs and Sheets?


Currently I've gone to Brave and DuckDuckGo for default browser and search alternatives.
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How about https://owncloud.com/

Mojeek.com is supposed to be a pretty private search engine, but UK-centric.

Let us know how you like the protonmail. I've been thinking about it.

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Been really liking protonmail. Haven't received a single spam e-mail on that account since I started using it early last year.

Also use Brave & DuckDuckGo, seems to working pretty well.
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Protonmail has been fine thus far -- so far as I've used it. Still have a bunch of stuff coming to my gmail that I haven't update my address for.
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blackeagle603 wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:55 pm Protonmail has been fine thus far -- so far as I've used it. Still have a bunch of stuff coming to my gmail that I haven't update my address for.
That's been my hesitation. I've had gmail for as long as I can remember... well... since about 2009?
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The only major downside I’ve seen to DuckDuckGo vice #dontbeevil is the lack of penetration into forum content. Looking for DIY solutions to stuff that I know likely lives on various forums… they don’t come up in DuckDuckGo results. May just need to adjust my search terminology, but for everything else DDG is just as good, and not the G-nazis
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