The anti-Big-Tech movement isn't a trend, it's a correction. Our societies spent 20 years accepting surveillance capitalism as normal. And now, we're slowly remembering we have choices.
Sure, switching browsers is a small thing. But small rebellions are how everything big begins, or so we like to believe. 🤞
If you think about those around you, have you noticed an increased awareness lately about what's behind the tech they use?
Just switched to Vivaldi from Firefox, seems pretty good.
Also trying out OnlyOffice (Latvian?) office suite of apps and Qwant (French?) search engine - both looking good.
Thinking about ProtonVPN (Swiss?).
The problem is persuading others to change - most of the people I know just keep on using what they were given years ago. MS Windows, MS Office, Outlook, Google …
@sirrichard @gwentlarry @Vivaldi
Gwentlarry is on the right track! 👍 🎉 🙌 🇪🇺
A little bad luck with OnlyOffice is all. I've also stepped on that mine. Its a nice product, but from what I've read on Mastodon, its basically Russian and moved their legal seat to Latvia because of reasons you can all guess.
@leanderlindahl @sirrichard @Vivaldi
I only discovered it very recently.
Wikipedia say it was originally developed by Ascensio System SIA (Latvian) + New Communication Technologies (Russian) in 2009 as a collaborative project TeamLab.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyOffice
Currently a complicated set up with the holding company based in Singapore. There are, it seems both open source versions hosted on GitHub and commercial versions.
It works for me & isn't Google, MS or Apple.
@gwentlarry @sirrichard @Vivaldi yes its a real pity, its such a nice app. It's also beautifully integrated in my Murena.io account (which to a large extent is NextCloud with another design).
There's collabora too (UK), but I think its paid only (for cloud/browser).
Vivaldi Browser
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