Mastodawn

I believe I will start recommending Proton Mail to more people.

The Easy Switch tool is pretty neat. So if you are moving from Gmail, Outlook or Yahoo it will help you set up automatic forwarding from the old address to the new address. And the import tool will let you move across all your email if you want. This means you can stop using the old address right away since any email to that address will be forwarded to your new address. And when you reply to those emails, your new proton.me address will be the sender. Ideally you’ll add a footer message alerting people of your new email address.

The next step is to upgrade and set up Proton Mail with your own domain name, for better future-proofing. But the point here is that there is really no reason to stay with a US email service if you're in Europe.

These days Proton has its own calendar service, office suite, password manager, vpn service and more. Paying a small fee every month to access all that makes a lot of sense. And having your own domain is what will allow you to switch email providers without ever changing your email address again.

Proton: Privacy by default

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Gagagoogle 5d ago

Marcel SIneM(S)US 6d ago

heise+ | Tschüss, #ChatGPT: Europäische Chatbots mit #Datenschutz und Privatsphäre | heise online https://www.heise.de/tests/Goodbye-USA-Europaeische-KIs-mit-Datenschutz-und-Privatsphaere-im-Test-11147422.html #heiseplus #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #privacy #DigitalSovereignty #LeChat #Mistral #Proton #Lumo #Infomaniak #Euria #SwissMade #Schweiz 🇨🇭 #Switzerland 🇨🇭

Tschüss, ChatGPT: Europäische Chatbots mit Datenschutz und Privatsphäre

US-KIs dominieren den Markt. Doch vertrauen Sie ChatGPT oder Google gern private Gedanken an? Wir stellen vertrauliche Alternativen aus Europa auf die Probe.

heise online

Gagagoogle Mar 15

Patrick Leavy Mar 15

📢 We've updated the Rebel Tech Alliance site: it now has app icons for all the Alternatives we list 😀
https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html

Click around the site and have a look!

We also added a better light mode, that matches the blog newsletter sepia look, and search boxes on the bigger tables e.g.
https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/otheralts.html and
https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/media.html

We hope you can share our site with friends and family, and use it to get away from #bigtech #surveillance 🥳

#surveillancecapitalism #ethicaltech

Rebel Tech Alliance

Gagagoogle Feb 28

Le Big Mac Feb 28

Jag har testat alla 290 svenska kommuners webbplatser för att se vilka kakor som sätts och vilka tredjeparter som kontaktas.

Några resultat:
→ 44 kommuner sätter tredjepartskakor utan samtycke
→ I genomsnitt kontaktar varje kommun nästan 10 externa domäner
→ Googles annonsnätverk DoubleClick nås från minst 19 kommuners sajter
→ Bara 7 kommuner hade inga tredjepartskontakter alls

Hela rapporten, inklusive data för samtliga kommuner, finns att läsa på Webperf.se:

https://webperf.se/articles/no-consent/?mtm_source=masto&mtm_campaign=marcus-postar&mtm_kwd=tredjeparter-och-kakor

Kakor utan samtycke och tredjeparter på kommuners webbplatser

Samtycke är något de flesta av oss lär sig redan på förskolan. Vi frågar innan vi tar, vi respekterar förstås ett nej och vi förklarar varför vi vill ha något.

Gagagoogle Feb 28

Sami Lehtinen Feb 28

Lumo AI by Proton - This is quite interesting! They use Cloudflare as a transport-layer proxy (similar to Cloudflare Spectrum). The claim is that this keeps things secure because TLS is not terminated at the edge. Well - yes and no. Cloudflare can still intercept all traffic at any time: they control the TCP stream, operate their own CA, and can silently swap TLS certificates or modify the JavaScript encryption code before it reaches your browser. The user would never notice. Let’s just say they are extremely well-equipped, prepared, and skilled for exactly that - if and when necessary. #Lumo #Proton #AI #Europe #EU #LumoAI #Cloudflare #DigitalSovereignty #InfoSec #EuroStack

Gagagoogle Feb 23

Vivaldi Browser Feb 23

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?

#ethics #BigTech #browser

Gagagoogle Feb 22

Gustav Wengel Feb 22

2 good experiences & 2 bad ones this week, when trying to switch away from #bigtech

The good:
- Switching email has been so much easier than I feared!
- Proton Drive & Proton Docs seem like a perfectly fine replacement for Google Drive & Google Docs - I don't feel like I'm missing out.

The bad 🧵

#danmarkskifter #EU #digitalsovereignty

Gagagoogle Feb 21

Per Axbom Feb 20

Sveriges riksdag legitimerar och skapar beroende till en kontroversiell plattform i tredje land, för nationell information. Sverige måste ha en stabil grund för kommunikation i kritiska lägen, men riksdagens webb gör tvärt emot det regeringen själv predikar. Jag delar en strategi för att göra rätt.

Det borde vara självklart att Sveriges riksdag ska äga sitt eget distributionslager och behandla alla externa plattformar som kanaler för vidarepublicering, aldrig som primära källor. Riksdagen ska inte ta ställning för en viss plattform över en annan. Det är en fråga om sårbarhet.

Jag ser framför mig tre tydliga lager för information:

1. En obestridd, trovärdig källa - Egen domän, snabbladdad, tillgänglig och öppen. Lär mottagarna vilken adress de kan lita på.

2. Standard för distribution - RSS till e-post, nyhetsläsare, sociala medier och mer. “Publicera en gång, nå ut överallt.”

3. Externa kanaler - För mottagarens bekvämlighet, och för redundans, men aldrig som officiell källa.

Läs hela artikeln, och ta del av checklistan:
https://axbom.se/tokstrategi/

Gagagoogle Feb 21

Javier de la Cueva Feb 20

Actions speak louder than words.

I am unable to install EU Login app in my phone because I use LineageOS and not the Google Spy Android.

Thus, I cannot use the double factor authentication, mandatory from the 25-02-2026 on unless I tell Google.

A frontal attack to our #privacy.

Stupid, no?

@EUCommission

Gagagoogle Feb 21

Malvan Feb 20

här va en lite rolig artikel om nån som försökt göra hela sin startup med europeisk teknikstack

https://www.coinerella.com/made-in-eu-it-was-harder-than-i-thought/

#goeuropean #europe #eu #madeineu

"Made in EU" - it was harder than I thought.

I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure. Here's the stack I landed on, what was harder than expected, and what you still can't avoid.

Coinerella