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Leaving Gmail may be tedious, as @hypertextadrien points out, but it's a necessary step to protecting your privacy online. His 10-step guide includes:

• Get a trusted provider, like @FastMail
• Export your data from Google
• Migrate all mail https://blog.dipasquale.fr/en/2018/12/02/leave-gmail-in-10-steps/

Original tweet: https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1076489285094858753

Leave Gmail in 10 steps

Mostly blogging about web development and Open Data

Vue.js Single-File JavaScript Components In The Browser

One of the cool things about native JavaScript modules for Vue.js users is that they allow you to organize your components into their own files without any kind of build step required. In this article, I'm going to show you how to write a single-file JavaScript component without any Babel or Webpack!

@jiminycricket @[email protected] We would add to the list:
- DAVdroid - lets you sync self-hosted calendar, tasks, etc
- Etar - OpenSource Calendar - calendar
- Scrambled Exif - gets rid of metadata on photos

@redandgreen14 These are some of my favorite #FDroid apps

#AFWall+ firewall apps
#oandbackup backup your phone
#Silence allows for encrypted SMS
#K9Mail email client with PGP support
#OpenKeychain manages PGP keys
#OSMand~ maps (better address recognition than #Maps which has cleaner UI)
#NewPipe or #SkyTube front ends for YouTube
#AntennaPod podcasts
#RadioDroid internet radio
#SMSBackup+ saves SMS to email

Not an exhaustive list but hope it's helpful!

Newsflash (not really): "An idle Android device communicates with Google nearly 10 times more frequently as an Apple device communicates with Apple servers." #privacy #google #android #infosec
https://digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2018/08/21/google-data-collection-research/
Google data collection research

While the public has been focused on the ongoing Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, Google has largely avoided public scrutiny about its data collection practices despite having the ability to collect far more personal data about consumers across a variety of touchpoints. In the new report “Google Data Collection,” Douglas C. Schmidt, Professor of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, catalogs how much data Google is collecting about consumers across all of its products and how that data is being tied together.

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