“Bye bye bye.” It took some time, and a serious amount of research, but I have finally crossed the finish line. I have officially migrated my digital life to pure, EU-hosted solutions.
Ah. You mean that thing that Andy was glad about slaters selection by trump? She is considered as a person against big tech. Or do you mean something else?
Personal information in borders of legal demands. Like every provider has to do. As long as you don’t do something criminal you shouldn’t be concerned. Or are you?
You might should read all information and not just the headlines of the Sunday morning post.
And you know who uses the “if you're not doing anything illegal you don't have anything to worry about” argument? Boomers high on rage bait, liars, propagandists, and fascists, that's who. You just outed yourself, boy, because your entire comment uses their argumentative talking points, they're suggested defenses. I can pretty much discern your real political alignments entirely from the content that you use to make your defense, and you are no friend of the little guy, my dude. Just how libertarian and fascist would you consider yourself, boy-o?
It sounds to me like you're one of their propagandists, and equally as disloyal to the values you seem to state you have, just like Proton. He made pro-trump statements during his first Administration and supported some of the legislation that they were trying to pass, while regurgitating lies that the Trump Administration was the one that was anti-big-tech and against anti-competitive practices (which is lie he internalized and puked back out into the world with certainty). And of course he did support Slater, and that person is a traitorous motherfucker to her own people -- and anything but anti big tech when you do away with the empty rhetoric she uses to lie to people in the press. And the other matter has to do with them handing over information to the FBI with almost no fight and a handshake, and then they ran and hid behind excuses that they followed all the procedures of their law. When really it looks like they just rolled over and played dead the first time any pressure was put on them. Proving that they will not protect their users, they will not fight for them, and in fact will likely be the ones to stab the dagger into their backs, especially for journalists and activists. You can't trust an organization like that, with leadership like that, and Proton has proven that they are traitorous to the core values they lie and say they have.
I just did something similar and cut expenses by about 50%. And I can sleep at night now that I’m not feeding the beast. Btw, proton isn’t ready to be the backbone yet, I went with infomaniak and their platform is much more mature. Still a few odd pieces from other places, but I have 3 companies across 2 continents and it’s working well.
I think I saved 500 without even migrating anything. I just locked my card and during the last month I got maybe 20 „payment rejected” messages. I honestly hate all kind of models where you have to leave your CC details and then they hope you will forget.
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I mean how did you change your email on all the accounts that you had used your previous email for? Is there a way to do it all at once or did you have a list of them and did it manually? I just wonder how easy it is to move from one email to another. Thanks for your reply, and pardon me if that’s what you described in your comment already (I’m not sure what you mean by saying you are on your domain, regarding my question about the many accounts you may have on various platforms).
Whats your take on Ecosia Browser being powered by Google and Bing search? I tried it myself until I found out its basically based on Chromium. Maybe Im missing sth here? You got more insight?
Thank you for the great overview, Max! I've been moving away from US-/Big-Tech-based products for a few months now (getting out of WhatsApp was hard with all the groups).
The biggest problem for me at the moment is the convenience of the iCloud-Photo-Library (we currently have Macs and iPhones). I have no idea, how to replace it in a way everyone in our household is on board... Do you (or other people) have a recommendation?
What do you say regarding the association of some of the bigwigs in proton to the WEF? (I think I read that in some of the comments, here or on another post, sorry I should have kept that link/page)
Would love some music streaming recommendations. I am starting to rebuild physical copies but it is expensive and timely. I like lots of different genres and enjoy finding new artists too.
I left Google for Proton years ago, now have a family plan to have all my household members in one platform.
I will say, for the people suggesting Mullvad, Mullvad is a great VPN but if you’re pay for Proton, no sense in paying for other VPNs.
I have also started using Infomaniaks products (Very similar to Proton) for my business needs like site hosting, email and Cloud storage. I also like how Infomaniaks AI’s usage goes to heating people’s homes so at least some good comes of the AI usage.
The CEO of Proton is pro-Trump, pro-Fascist, and caves easily to legal pressure to hand over the personal information of its users. Just an FYI.
Ah. You mean that thing that Andy was glad about slaters selection by trump? She is considered as a person against big tech. Or do you mean something else?
Personal information in borders of legal demands. Like every provider has to do. As long as you don’t do something criminal you shouldn’t be concerned. Or are you?
You might should read all information and not just the headlines of the Sunday morning post.
And you know who uses the “if you're not doing anything illegal you don't have anything to worry about” argument? Boomers high on rage bait, liars, propagandists, and fascists, that's who. You just outed yourself, boy, because your entire comment uses their argumentative talking points, they're suggested defenses. I can pretty much discern your real political alignments entirely from the content that you use to make your defense, and you are no friend of the little guy, my dude. Just how libertarian and fascist would you consider yourself, boy-o?
It sounds to me like you're one of their propagandists, and equally as disloyal to the values you seem to state you have, just like Proton. He made pro-trump statements during his first Administration and supported some of the legislation that they were trying to pass, while regurgitating lies that the Trump Administration was the one that was anti-big-tech and against anti-competitive practices (which is lie he internalized and puked back out into the world with certainty). And of course he did support Slater, and that person is a traitorous motherfucker to her own people -- and anything but anti big tech when you do away with the empty rhetoric she uses to lie to people in the press. And the other matter has to do with them handing over information to the FBI with almost no fight and a handshake, and then they ran and hid behind excuses that they followed all the procedures of their law. When really it looks like they just rolled over and played dead the first time any pressure was put on them. Proving that they will not protect their users, they will not fight for them, and in fact will likely be the ones to stab the dagger into their backs, especially for journalists and activists. You can't trust an organization like that, with leadership like that, and Proton has proven that they are traitorous to the core values they lie and say they have.
Looking at those company logos, you escaped nothing
Same thing
Different wrapping
I just did something similar and cut expenses by about 50%. And I can sleep at night now that I’m not feeding the beast. Btw, proton isn’t ready to be the backbone yet, I went with infomaniak and their platform is much more mature. Still a few odd pieces from other places, but I have 3 companies across 2 continents and it’s working well.
Very Interesting take. I have written this article about Cloudlfare and would be happy if you can check it out :)
https://marketsminds.substack.com/p/deep-dive-cloudflare-the-internets?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
I think I saved 500 without even migrating anything. I just locked my card and during the last month I got maybe 20 „payment rejected” messages. I honestly hate all kind of models where you have to leave your CC details and then they hope you will forget.
I guess I would have to change an email address to move to proton?
Hi Max, how did you replace your previous email in all the things you were using it for with the new proton mail?
As I’m on my own domain, I just change the provider Gmail -> Proton and migrated all email. Therefore no need to exchange email on the other platforms
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I mean how did you change your email on all the accounts that you had used your previous email for? Is there a way to do it all at once or did you have a list of them and did it manually? I just wonder how easy it is to move from one email to another. Thanks for your reply, and pardon me if that’s what you described in your comment already (I’m not sure what you mean by saying you are on your domain, regarding my question about the many accounts you may have on various platforms).
Whats your take on Ecosia Browser being powered by Google and Bing search? I tried it myself until I found out its basically based on Chromium. Maybe Im missing sth here? You got more insight?
Thank you for the great overview, Max! I've been moving away from US-/Big-Tech-based products for a few months now (getting out of WhatsApp was hard with all the groups).
The biggest problem for me at the moment is the convenience of the iCloud-Photo-Library (we currently have Macs and iPhones). I have no idea, how to replace it in a way everyone in our household is on board... Do you (or other people) have a recommendation?
A perfect replacement for notion is Obsidian :
https://obsidian.md/
It stores everything in markdown, so even if you choose to leave Obsidian you can use your notes.
Your future self will thank you
https://youtube.com/shorts/HpqiP2iiXZ8?si=eenHMpoSwr26GHpQ
What do you say regarding the association of some of the bigwigs in proton to the WEF? (I think I read that in some of the comments, here or on another post, sorry I should have kept that link/page)
Would love some music streaming recommendations. I am starting to rebuild physical copies but it is expensive and timely. I like lots of different genres and enjoy finding new artists too.
I just found steady.page as a possible alternative to Substack. It's based in Germany, since 2008. Thanks for your post. Vive l'Europe!
I left Google for Proton years ago, now have a family plan to have all my household members in one platform.
I will say, for the people suggesting Mullvad, Mullvad is a great VPN but if you’re pay for Proton, no sense in paying for other VPNs.
I have also started using Infomaniaks products (Very similar to Proton) for my business needs like site hosting, email and Cloud storage. I also like how Infomaniaks AI’s usage goes to heating people’s homes so at least some good comes of the AI usage.
100% onboard with the move away from Big Tech.
Just one thing: as far as I know, Ecosia is using the index from Bing, which is Microsoft. :-(
Generally would add GrapheneOS as mobile phone OS to the list and Signal instead of WhatsApp.
Github could be replaced by Codeberg. Youtube can often be avoided using rumble or bitchute or odysee.