• Taalnazi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    21 hours ago

    Fixing your formatting:

    Gmail —> ProtonMail.

    Google drive and iCloud —> PCloud, ProtonDrive, Kooft (still have to drop one or 2).

    Google translate—> DeepL.

    Uber —> Bolt.

    Windows —> Linux (although still mostly using windows b/c company laptop).

    Google maps —> Mapy, although still sometimes using google for street view.

    Edge, Chrome —> Vivaldi, Ecosia.

    Google search —> Ecosia.

    ChatGPT —> LeChat (Mistral), although still sometimes use ChatGPT.

    WhatsApp —> Signal (open source, although still American) and Threema.

    • Taalnazi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      21 hours ago

      I’d also recommend these - and always use a paid VPN!:

      Mail: ProtonMail, Mailbox

      Cloud storage: Peergos (self-hosted),

      Translate: DeepL

      Taxi: just use public transit, or Bolt

      Software: Linux

      Phone: Fairphone (Google Pixel is claimed to be safer for privacy, but I still don’t trust Google)

      Maps: OsmAnd or OpenStreetMaps

      Browser: Firefox, Librefox (or the usual onion, if censorship is that bad)

      Search: Ecosia, Qwant, SearXNG (if you know how to self-host)

      AI Chat: Kobold.cpp or Ollama (latter downloads models automatically, but former is better elsewhere)

      Messaging: Signal, Threema, Wire

      More information here at Recommendations