Comment on [Gamers Nexus] "Google is Getting Worse," ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs

BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Moved to Protonmail earlier this year, just cancelled my Drive sub and am looking at switching to Mega

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  • Nikki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    can vouch for mega, been using it for 8 years now with no real issues. only sticking point is file download limits with Firefox, and thats just because im too lazy to download the desktop app

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    • tibi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I hate services that force you to download an app when the functionality could be provided in browser. Apps have a lot more permissions to access things that wouldn’t be accessible in browser.

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      • Nikki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        from what i see its a browser limitation rather than the site. dyor ofc

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    • fossphi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You can use rclone to mount your mega drive like a regular folder. Works like a charm. It’s a FLOSS command line utility

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  • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Why did you cancel Drive?

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    • wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      To be fair I’ve had no issues, just trying to degoogle slowly

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  …tell me more of these proton mail services of which you speak!

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s like Gmail except it has a proper dark mode and Google isn’t reading all your emails

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    • sunzu@kbin.run ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      But I have nothing to hide!

      Why shouldN'T sundar the creep read my email and check my nudes?

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      • ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Ultimately, arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

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        Mullvad also put together this recently: mullvad.net/en/…/nothing-to-hide

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  • BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Been using their paid email, drive and vpn for the last couple of years and their service has been flawless in my experience. Great apps and never had an outage or issues once.

    Free versions are available but the paid version is well worth it.

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    • slooopy_potatoe@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’ve been with them for a couple of years too and I use all their services (mail, calendar, drive, VPN, pass and simplelogin) but calling it flawless is a bit of an overstatement.

      Their outside communication is nonexistent at best, development speed is unbearably slow and Linux support, the most privacy countious user-base?, is lacking a lot.

      Hopefully in the next couple years they sinally manage to release contact sync and a Linux client for Drive.

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      • micka190@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Their outside communication is nonexistent at best

        Eh, they’re decently active on Reddit, I guess. They send the occasional newsletter regarding new features if you don’t unsubscribe (and they’re pretty good at not spamming with those, imo).

        development speed is unbearably slow

        I see people say this all the time, and while feature updates are kind of slow, I’m also not lacking anything, personally. I would appreciate it if they smoothed-out SimpleLogin’s extension, though. That thing is weirdly clunky to use.

        Agree on the Linux bit, though. I’m surprised they haven’t put more work into that.

        Overall, I’ve been a happy customer for a few years, personally.

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• TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Is it still viable in 2024 to run a home email server? I used to have a personal Postfix box back in the day.

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  • univers3man@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You’d have to be really committed. There’s more admin work than you think to make sure you’re not insecure or getting blocked.

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  • astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I use a cheap VPS to host my email server. It’s a bit easier than running it solely at home, but there’s a lot of annoying work to “verify” yourself. Once you get your DNS records good, you shouldn’t be blocked after that (unlike a home server). It only costs me $5/month plus the domain, which I think is money well spent. Doing the admin work to make sure I’m secure still needs to happen, but I don’t mind that work and find it fun.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Gmail and other big providers tend to consider new domains to be spam until they’ve proven otherwise. Can’t prove otherwise until you’ve been up and running for a while. Catch-22. The way out of that is to host with an existing provider for a few years.

    Does it cut down on spam? Perhaps. Does it favor existing providers like Gmail? Yes, definitely.

    Honestly, hosting email has long been difficult to setup, and all the more so if you don’t want your box to be a spam host within three seconds of plugging it in.

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    • smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’ve been hosting a personal domain with an established-but-not-large hosting provider for around 6 years, without any troubles sending or receiving mail from that domain (via the provider’s servers, of course).

      Does that mean my domain is now well established enough to take email hosting to my own server?

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      • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Good chance you could at this point.

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• KonalaKoala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I would need to see some alternates for Google Drive in that case.

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  • BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Proton drive is fantastic.

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    • KonalaKoala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I just signed up for that just to check it out and compare it, and it looks like upgrading the storage on it is more expensive than Google Drive.

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      • BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yeah but that’s expected. It’s difficult to compete as a smaller company compared to what Google can offer.

        It’s the price of privacy and to be outside of the google ecosystem.

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      • justaderp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        There’s an incredible story behind it. But, the short form is that Proton Mail is more expensive because they’re not harvesting all your private information. In a few months the law will prevent them from doing for as long as the core fiscal law and Proton Mail exist (at least decades).

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        If price is main concern, you still have options, but you’ll need to be a lot more specific about what you need. For example:

        • proprietary, hosted products like OneDrive, Amazon Drive, DropBox, and MEGA
        • backups - NordLocker, Backblaze
        • hosted and self-hosted cloud platforms - OwnCloud and NextCloud, use Backblaze B2 for storage

        I’m doing the last one. I have NextCloud installed on my custom NAS (just openSUSE Leap with some drives) and am working on configuring B2 as a backup service.

        Each of these are similar in price to Google Drive, but with a different feature set. Some are cheaper.

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Just signed up after they announced the non-profit and mmigrated all my mail. So far so good.

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• Cyberflunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  But what if Alphabet buys Proton!?

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  • recklessengagement@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They went non-profit recently to specifically prevent this from happening.

    proton.me/blog/proton-non-profit-foundation

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  duckduckgo and yandex.

  even bing is better nowadays.

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