Two Questions

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.

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

(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.

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?