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Proton, Tuta, Mailbox.org, Posteo
All are equal in terms of their overall quality of service, just different in what advantages they offer (except for Mailbox.org and Posteo. They’re just offering standards compliant email servers without any bullshit and let you roll your own encryption)
Oh, I think for me it was just that when I have thought patterns like “…is it time to give up?” My emotional color is anxiety. I have to pick myself back up by focusing on the value of focusing not only on protecting myself, but also protecting others. Just saw more of myself in you than I saw you for you I guess
So. Individual pricacy measures are a lot like eating a vegan diet. There’s only so much any one individual can do. You are making things better in some small way by doing it, but once you’ve taken things as far as you, its time to switch from an individual journey to one of collectivization. Advocate to your friends and family about why you browse the internet weird and what we all stand to gain by banding together and doing it as a group. Not all of them will listen, but that’s okay. Evangelism isn’t about reaching everyone, its about reaching a few people. Movements are built by people trying to make them world better and you can do this.
Importantly, too, accepting that there’s only so much you can do will help you confront your anxiety. Anxiety is the emotion we feel when we wish we felt a different feeling from what we’re feeling. Its a uniquely insidious emotion in how when you feel anxious, you want to feel another way, and then you feed the anxiety by doing that. Breaking free of these loops are important if you want to make them world a better place because you need to be able to function and not be broken by your desire to improve things.
And hey. I believe in you. You can do this
It’s also cyclical and deeply embedded in our society. It all starts with dominating the search space. Google chrome came along to cement Google’s stranglehold on the search space by having search and browser be one. Of their two big competitors at the time, google was paying money to one to be their default search provider. And any search not made in chrome on google directed users to download chrome. I don’t know how many people remember how google directed users to download chrome, but it was weakly implied you had to. It was an early example of a dark ux pattern. Then after google got a strong foothold in the browser market to dominate search more, they come up with the Chromebook and gun hard for every school student to receive a Chromebook. At the time a lot of us thought “oh good, now low income kids will have access to the internet while theyre in school, they can use that to learn things” and suddenly kids were growing up that chrome, the web browser, was the internet. And there were thousands of little steps over the last 16 years of google chrome that google has used to more and more deeply entrench themselves as all that is search, and all that is browse in the minds of users.
And I want to ask you this. When’s the last time you used their search product and didn’t have to struggle to find something useful in the top 10? Now the google front page is half properly labeled ads, 25% improperly labeled ads masquerading as results, 15% SEO bullshit that isn’t actually relevant or useful, just another advertiser showing their adds, and maybe one decent result. And what do you say when you want to do a web search? Even if you use bing or duck duck go or anything else, if you’re like most people, you probably say something like “let me google that”
We’ve gotten to a point of total apathy with google. Even if users are actively going to google for everything, its not even all that active from their perspective. They don’t know what else there is, and even if they do, their old habits are deeply set. They use google when theyre not thinking about it, which is most of the time, because that’s what’s already in their brains
The main concern is going to be hardware reliability from wear and tear. That’s the value of buying refurbished, for which there are several reputable retailers online (some of which selling degoogled phones with their own OSes). On the software side, since I’m presuming the focus of this discussion is installing grapheneos, its not really a concern since you’re going to be reflashing the device