sad_detective_manWhat's the worst privacy compromise that you are willing to admit you make?
- Waze . They know my location when I drive, and there are no alternatives (AFAIK) for traffic jam. I don’t use an account though, it’s not tied to Google or anything.
- Kagi because all the others are worse. I may try SearX again to see if it’s good now.
- PayPal sucks but it’s good for subscriptions.
- Tuta and Bitwarden . They have a link to PayPal but the data is E2E encrypted.
Most of the time, I don’t mind a compromise as long as I can keep the data to myself and encrypted, or if the smartphone application can run without any permission.
The biggest threats for me in the above list are PayPal (they know what I buy), and Kagi (they know what I’m looking for). I could find a way to remove Kagi though…
Wait what’s wrong with Waze and Tuta? The PayPal tie?
Noooooo. Nothing is wrong with Tuta, they are awesome. The compromise is that PayPal knows that I subscribe to Tuta and BitWarden.
As for Waze, it has been bought by Google a long time ago. If you have Android, you can restrict the location to “when the application is running,” but it’s still Google behind.
ohhhhh. I see. I guess that’s still better than maps. Do you think it had use of all the same data as Google maps then?
The geographical data was always good, and you can use it without an account. The algorithm itself has improved a lot. It used to be very bad in the past though, it would switch the route every five minute to gain a few seconds towards the destination, but they stopped doing that.
CoMaps looks great, but it’s still buggy and I don’t know how to have some traffic data.