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    Some of these recommendations are kinda wack…

    BlueSky but no mention of Mastodon?
    Deezer is primarily owned by an American investment fund
    Tuta is actively enshittifying
    ReVanced is still YouTube you’re just adding a middleman
    HERE WeGo’s website doesn’t even load atm but where is OpenStreetMap and its thousands of frontends?

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        copy pasted

        Every once in a while they’ll send you an email with special CSS styling so you can’t avoid seeing it and you can’t unsubscribe from it. They call it a newsletter. It’s advertising. It’s less news and more begging you to buy more of their stuff. Very occasionally they’ll bump new features onto a higher tier but still show that feature in your UI, with special CSS styling. God forbid if they try to upgrade your account but you deny because you’re happy with the features you have now and the amount you pay; they push harder and harder the longer you’re on a ‘legacy’ tier.

        It happened to me. It’ll happen to you.

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    Blue sky is based in the US tho. There may be instances elsewhere, but it’s still dependent on a US company (unlike Mastodon).

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      Is there anyone offering a Waze alternative though? OrganicMaps is offline first and privacy focused which is not something I’m looking for in my navigation app.

      I need live traffic and speed controls and so on. Haven’t found an alternative yet :(

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    Bluesky is just twitter 2.0, Mastodon is the better alternative

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    Only just started using it, but Mullvad has open the doors to their new search engine.

    https://leta.mullvad.net/

    It pulls results from Google.

    Mullvad Leta uses the Google Search API as a proxy, caching each search. These cached results are shared amongst all users, reducing costs and improving privacy. This service is user-supported and doesn’t rely on ads or data selling.

    Our browser extension simplifies access. Once your account number is set in the settings, there’s no need to log in each time. To protect against correlation attacks and manage costs, searches are cached for 30 days, possibly resulting in slightly outdated results.

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    I’ve moved my email and google Drive etc.to infomaniak.com and I’m very happy.

    I’d like to replace google Photo’s, I’m struggling to find an alternative that also allows me to search using image recognition. (like in google photos)