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Infographic on Google Alternatives: Feedback? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I created an infographic of privacy-forward alternatives to Google products...and would love your feedback.

Is it easy to use? Enough white space? Intuitive? Sharable? Is there anything I'm missing?

The infographic image in this post is NOT clickable. The link above will give you a downloadable PDF with working hyperlinks.

Re: the legend, "easy set-up/use" means either that this is a big part of the alternative product's branding, or I've used it myself and found it easy.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I don't do anything fancy, just use the light version with the email I made, and use anonaddy to alias for free. I use Thunderbird as a client.

It works, although the web app is kinda slow. If you enable MFA Tokens, instead of the password you made, you now type a PIN + TOTP code to login, which is dumb (They might be changing it soon). I know some have pointed out a security issue about flags or smth, specifically about how people can spoof your email and send messages as you. This comment specifically shows what tests failed and passed.

It's cheap (Light plan is ~1€ per month) and allows easy one click enabling of PGP for webmail and encrypted sending (to mailbox.org users) but if you're a pro you can do expert/customizable settings for those instead.

I just wanted something that was relatively private and secure, and will work with Thunderbird.

Maybe consider Posteo too, which has another lengthy post of Privacy.guides forums about whether it's good or not.

Honestly, maybe I would move to Posteo due to the DMARC policy and MFA being iffy on Mailbox, but we'll see. I use aliases to avoid too much spam anyway.