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Google: secure alternatives

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2021 8:18 pm
by blackeagle603
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.
Signal for messaging.
Personal email transition to Protonmail is underway.

Re: Google: secure alternatives

Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 7:44 pm
by Weetabix
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.

Thoughts on VPN's? I think last time I looked, I kind of liked NordVPN, but I can't remember for sure.

Re: Google: secure alternatives

Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:23 am
by TheArmsman
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.

Re: Google: secure alternatives

Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:55 pm
by blackeagle603
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.

Re: Google: secure alternatives

Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:18 pm
by Weetabix
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?

Re: Google: secure alternatives

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:33 am
by g-man
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