Hello lemmings lemmons and any other lemm out there. I’ve always wanted to try to switch to more privacy focused options but it’s always been difficult for me as I’m not really tech savvy and frankly for a very long time haven’t really cared about privacy.
Transitioning has also been hard since I feel like I’m pretty much the antithesis of this community: using an iPhone and 2 windows computers (one for home use and one for my college classes on campus) and use OneDrive to sync work between the 3 devices.
Pretty much every account I have is under my gmail account and a second back up email is also under gmail.
Frankly I’m sure this is the highest form of insult to this community but I use edge simply because I’ve given up trying to fight Microsoft
So it’s been a challenge to switch but for browsers and just copy paste all my bookmarks and saved passwords when I download Firefox on my phone and computers but as for email and online accounts switching off that gmail account seems daunting but not impossible and I have no idea what to do to replace OneDrive since it is useful and works in file explorer with no extra software
I figured if anyone was smart enough to tackle the abomination that is my privacy it’d be you guys
another link to help you find some more privacy-focused alternatives. i think a great gmail, google calendar, and drive replacement is proton.me . I switched to them from google and haven’t looked back
Thanks for that
Yeah I mainly use outlook just because my college email could only login to outlook both on desktop and my phone and eventually I kinda shifted from the gmail app/website but under the same gmail account. I only took a brief look but that looks like it’d be a good start
Nowadays privacytools.io has some really questionable recommendations. Check out Privacy Guides instead.
Yes, they are definitely sketchy now.
Take a look at privacy.sexy (you’ll have to paste this is, could not get link to work) first and configure your PCs. That’s the only step imma give and it might be the most important
The link doesn’t work.
Thanks for this. I’m only dipping toes in for now but definitely gonna use this when I’m more comfortable and stuff
Seriously, it basically walks you through and automates basically everything you need to toggle to get to optimal config on your computers. I don’t know what PC has but the Mac part literally does all the defaults writing for you so you just check the boxes, export the file, and run it in the command line or whatever to mass-apply it all
Oh cool
One alternative to OneDrive is a local server or just having bigger long term drives on your system.
Also what you can do is encrypt files with gpg for example and upload them to any free cloud service, like for example Google drive.
Like i said I’m not very tech savvy so a local server is something I’d like to try to avoid maybe unless it can run out of the box.
As for encryption wdym by gpg im assuming that’s an encryption service
It’s not black or white, so don’t worry about trying to do everything on your own at once. Just taking steps to enhancing your privacy like you’re doing now asking questions is already a step in the right direction. If you’re not confident in hosting locally for now, you can try one of the providers NextCloud recommends. Sure it’s not as good as hosting your own, but it’s a big step away from using OneDrive or Google Drive.
Someone recommended the proton.me family so I think I’m going to start there and get settled there
I might pay for it if I get used to it and settled in compared to OneDrive and all that stuff
Someone recommended the proton.me family so I think I’m going to start there and get settled there
I might pay for it if I get used to it and settled in compared to OneDrive and all that stuff
Someone recommended the proton.me family so I think I’m going to start there and get settled there
I might pay for it if I get used to it and settled in compared to OneDrive and all that stuff
You already have a plethora of great suggestions for improvements to make, so I won’t leave any more, but rather offer some advice. It can be daunting to go all in and sacrifice the conveniences you currently enjoy. This is why I recommend you change your behaviour and software in a piecemeal fashion. Change only a few (or even one) things at a time and get used to it. Once you are comfortable with where you are at, then introduce more improvements. This approach will help prevent you from getting overloaded or burnt out, resulting in you going back and compromising your privacy. Good luck!
Yeah that’s why I’m using proton and slowly switching accounts. Proton drive is pretty much OneDrive minus auto save (oh no however shall I manage) so that’s not too big of a leap
The email and calander haven’t seen much use and with transferring accounts to be with my proton email will be slow
Once that’s done and I’m all settled with proton or if I find another solution I’m going to take a look back here and see what a next step could be for me
I suggest mega.io as replacement for OneDrive. I use it myself, and it has a desktop app like OneDrive’s.
Well thank so much for everyone who chimed in I appreciate it a ton. For now I’m going to to test the waters with proton family like the drive and calander and mail and see how I like that and if it’s a viable alternative for OneDrive and outlook for my case. I think it’ll work but I’m still very open to suggestions
I prefer skiff.com for email and drive rather proton the days.
A great resource that I’d recommend to anyone is Privacy Guides
