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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by frogman to c/technology
 

We're reaching the end of an era wherein billions of dollars of investor money was shovelled into tech startups to build large user-bases, and now those companies (now monoliths) are beginning to constrict their user-bases and squeeze for every single penny they can possibly extract. Fair or not.

Now more than ever, it's important for us to step back and reconsider whether we want to be billboards for these companies anymore.

For anyone unfamiliar, some good resources to have when starting your degoogling journey are below:

Privacy Guides - A list of privacy-respecting services you can use.

Plexus - A crowdsourced information bank of service compatibility with degoogled devices.

This random PDF - A study from 2018 detailing data that Google tracks about its' users.

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[–] themizarkshow@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I moved off a while ago at this point... I still have to use some of it because of work being on G-Suites but otherwise my personal stuff has moved.

  • Email: Hey & ProtonMail
  • Storage: Dropbox
  • Notes: SimpleNotes & Obsidian.md
  • Chat: Telegram & Matrix/Element
  • 2FA: ProtonPass (as of yesterday, Authy before that)
  • Passwords: 1Password
  • Other: Apple stuff mostly
[–] evilviper 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is the proton pass 2FA? I saw they have that it haven't gotten around to switching from Authy yet.

[–] LegendofZelda64@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Bitwarden is way better all around. Both for 2FA and password managing in general.

[–] cat_slave99@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any particular reason for switching away from authy?

[–] frogman 4 points 1 year ago

i'm not a cybersecurity expert so i can't say anything about how well they secure your data. however, authy is closed source and a walled garden. you can't easily export your data. if authy pulls a reddit tomorrow and decides to start charging, you're screwed.

building your 2fa life in a different service like aegis will save you so much headache in the future, and you can feel good about supporting open source.

[–] adam@lemmy.adambowl.es 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you aware that 1Password does 2FA, or are you intentionally separating passwords and 2FA?

[–] themizarkshow@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I was intentionally keeping them separate in case my 1Pass is somehow hacked at least then they still need another login that’s not in there to get to those codes. But I may just give up on that it’s a headache

[–] tanglisha 1 points 1 year ago

1Password offers 2FA now, too. I haven't decided yet if it's too eggs-in-one-basket-y, but it sure is convenient.

[–] new_account@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just a view suggestions:

  • Nextcloud instead of Dropbox (foss)
  • Bitwarden instead of 1password (Foss)
  • Logseq instead of Obsidian (Foss)
  • Signal instead of telegram (e2ee)
[–] themizarkshow@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I'd love to use all those but I'm the admin of our family accounts and there's only so far I can make relatives go in terms of these platforms. It's been a lot of compromise to get here without complaints lol