a lot of the big tech companies have shown that they are willing to collaborate with Donald trump I know it can be hard for a lot of people to switch away from tech companies and a lot of them try their hardest to make it difficult to leave. but I don’t really see anyone even calling for this in cases where it is easier.
the collaboration of these companies is highly problematic with their capability to gather information about people they have already freely given information to the police without a warrant.
recently google has started censoring CECOT on google maps what other information are they censoring? we already know google is a privacy nightmare as well. I am aware google makes it hard to switch away from but I strongly believe an effort should be made by people to at least mitigate what information they can gather.
I recommend Linux mint for newbies. If you want to try it out first I recommend installing it on a virtual machine that way you can see the installation process before you actually install it and then you can use it for a but and see what its really like to use. Also encrypt your hard drives it should be an option at install.
YouTube was the last big tech social media account I had and I just deleted my account and am currently working on moving my email I should have done this long ago.
Thanks for thr info! What are you moving email too? I switched to proton, I use their VPN and password manager too.
Tutanota and proton. Unfortunately though the owner of proton has come out in support of trump. Tutanota only let’s you make one email per person for free though. I figured proton is still better than google and there are not many free private alternatives.
For my password manager I use keepass which runs locally on your device and syncthing to keep the passwords file synced between devices the more things you are able to keep local the better. Syncthing is also excellent it even works when you are away from your local network as long as both devices are running it and online and it has no central servers. (If one device is offline it will just wait until it is online to sync)
With VPNs you are shifting the trust from your ISP to another company the owner of the VPN is still able to track you. I don’t really have a VPN that I use right now I just use Tor when I want to be private.
I’ve seen multiple things about the while trump thing. And yeah thats not great. But its also miss leading, I still trust proton more than my ISP. And way more than google or Microsoft or apple.