It is always a good idea to go through the privacy policy and check if the level of privacy offered by the service suits you. Making the switch over to the above alternatives will go a long way toward increasing your privacy, and limiting your data from being harvested and sold. If that thought understandably makes your butthole tighten a little, I have put together a list of privacy-focused alternatives to popular Google products just for you:Ĭanary Mail / Fairemail / FastMail / K-9 Mail / / Mailvelope / Thunderbird / Tutanotaīrave / Bromite / Firefox / Librewolf / Tor / Ungoogled Chromium / XBrowserSync (bookmark sync tool)ĭAVx⁵ / Etar / Lightning (part of Thunderbird) / Nextcloud / Peergos / Tutanotaįilen / Nextcloud / Sia / / SyncthingĬollabora (part of NextCloud) / Cryptee / CryptPad / Etherpad / Libreoffice OnlineĮnte / Piwigo Android / Stingle Photos / Cryptee DeGoogle Your LifeĭeGoogling, often a big part of Privacy Threat Modelling, is an arduous road paved with inconvenience, but it's worth the effort if you are concerned about your online privacy just think about all of your personal details in the hands of a gigantic advertising agency that only cares about personal profit. Much of this data is sold to third parties with the promise of being anonymous however, there have been cases where people have been identified and targeted maliciously over similar such 'anonymized' information. Pictured below is a small example to illustrate the data collected in an average day:Ĭollecting this much information essentially amounts to surveillance. There is a juicy 2018 study detailing the unbelievable extent of active and passive snooping done by Google. It is surprising to some how many cases of illegal data-collection activities they have been reprimanded for over the years, including most recently being sued by Washington DC and 3 US states (Indiana, Texas, Washington State) over deceptive location tracking. Google products are ridiculously commonplace and popular, and cover a wide range of services (making the DeGoogle process a pain in the ass), but ultimately, Google is an advertising agency whose main deal is to make money from any data it collects about its users. Odds are, you’re reading this article either on their browser (Chrome) or mobile platform (Android), and you’ll probably end up going down a YouTube rabbit hole later tonight - but most people don't realise just how much of themselves they are selling to Google to access those products.
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