Two Questions
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Someone recently posted about trisquel being in the PRISM break list. Just to refresh your memories the page is here http://www.prism-break.org. Anyway on to my question. This page has duckduckgo listed as an alternative to google. By the listing for duckduckgo there is a button that says duckduckgo is partly proprietary. Is this true?
My next question is about gmail. I am still using gmail and looking to change, simply because I am trying to break my google addiction. The PRISM break page listed two alternatives. The rise up is not attractive at all to me after I checked it out, and bitmessage seems to be beyond my skill set and comfort zone.
Anyway my next question is what are some alternatives to gmail? Thank you in advance for all replies.
I'm don't really know about DDG, but I'm curious to find out. As for email, you can try https://lavabit.com/. I don't have an account myself, so I can't really testify on it, but it looks promising.
I've got a lavabit account that I use with Mozilla Thunderbird. I like it. It's not hard to set up, and it does everything I need it to.
Lavabit is good. I use it in addition to Riseup.
> Someone recently posted about trisquel being in the PRISM break list.
> Just to refresh your memories the page is here
> http://www.prism-break.org. Anyway on to my question. This page
> has duckduckgo listed as an alternative to google. By the listing
> for duckduckgo there is a button that says duckduckgo is partly
> proprietary. Is this true?
Some of the search engine source code is available at GitHub. I don't
know about the JavaScript, but if you use https://duckduckgo.com/lite
then it doesn't require proprietary software to use DDG.
Andrew.
On 2013-06-20 13:01, name at domain wrote:
> My next question is about gmail. I am still using gmail and looking to
> change, simply because I am trying to break my google addiction. The
> PRISM break page listed two alternatives. The rise up is not attractive
> at all to me after I checked it out, and bitmessage seems to be beyond
> my skill set and comfort zone.
> Anyway my next question is what are some alternatives to gmail? Thank
> you in advance for all replies.
I started a similar thread on LibrePlanet-discuss:
http://lists.libreplanet.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss
Here is the relevant post/thread:
http://lists.libreplanet.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2013-06/msg00042.html
I encourage you to join the discussion, and possibly the group:
http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Activists
http://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
Cheers,
F.
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Fabián Rodríguez
http://fsf.magicfab.ca
Very useful discussion, Fabian. Thanks for the post and the linkage.
(After also getting tired of Google's spying and, even, censoring of comments of mine, in some of its companies...)
I recently started to use Mail.ru, instead - which has also an interface in English (and Spanish), and doesn't force you to give them a/your cell phone number.
(http://e.mail.ru/cgi-bin/signup?from=main&lang=en_US).
The interface is even, in my opinion, more pleasant to use than Google's. And I use it also with Mozilla Thunderbird.
Also, I started using the Yandex.com search engine, instead, whenever possible. (Although, it is not as good as Google's...)
Yandex.com is an English language implementation of the well-known Russian search engine Yandex.ru.
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Thank you for all the replies. I gave riseup.net a second look and went with that. I noticed that in the mailing list that Fabian posted about they talk a lot about making your own web server. Is there a guide in the wiki to do this or anywhere else I could follow? If not and I figure out how to do it could I add the information to the wiki?
>If not and I figure out how to do it could I add the information to the wiki?
Yes, that's why it's there.