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What are some alternatives?


Here's one survey of alternatives:

https://restoreprivacy.com/google-alternatives/

Personally, I use:

* DDG for search.

* gmx.com as my main email server (not sure it's that great for privacy, ProtonMail is probably better).

* OpenStreetMap for maps (caveat: Some info is on Google Maps and not on there)

* HereWeGo for car navigation

* Thunderbird as my mail client + calendar

* I don't publish videos, but otherwise probably PeerTube

* IRC and Matrix for group chatting

* F-Droid for FOSS mobile apps, Aurora for anonymous access to Google Play Store

Not yet de-googlified:

* I use an Android phone (albeit Chinese)

* Still need a good alternative for Google Translate.


GMX exposes your IP address in email headers.


Well, I wasn't expecting it to hide my IP address. By default, the Received headers should show the chain of transmission back to my IP.


The only thing I used my google account for was email. There are many good alternatives – I myself have been happy with mailbox.org for years.


Office 365.


their web email client continues to be ocular cancer for anyone who isn't already a daily Outlook user.


I can't stand it nor GMail so I always use a good old local client (Mac Mail or Evolution).


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Interesting site, but the salient data here (1hr attack rate), is scrolled way off to the right on mobile.


Yeah context plays a big part here. We wanted to make the experience of looking at "interleaved diff[s] on Github" a lot better. So we made https://www.codestream.com/ which lets reviewers look at pull requests (github) and soon merge requests (gitlab) right in their editor, leveraging the entire context of the file and all the things they love about their IDEs.


I'm seven years into working remotely (from home) this week. While I don't miss some of the things the authored mentioned, the pros were greater than the cons since I worked for a company that rented out a snazzy office at CIC in Cambridge, MA. In a CODIV-19-world, I'm not sure I'd ever want to be in those sort of close quarters again, though a change of scenery would be nice!


Cool! (esp. on the Emacs front). Was there any challenges getting it to work with Emacs? This is similar to an extension from CodeStream: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/codestream-in-ide-...


Hi Peter,

You mentioned this "...the ability to talk about any block of code, on any branch, in any state..." Re: "any state." On our team, we'd love the ability to comment on uncommitted changes and share with the team, as it would prevent us from requiring short-lived feature branches. Is that ability available now?


Yes, absolutely. I made this short video to demonstrate how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4HCiiQvMuY


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This is great! As a spotify junkie (and since you're using the spotify api), it would be great if there were links from the artist/album/tracks directly to spotify.


Yeah, I almost did this. What stopped me is that I assume most people using it do not have spotify accounts, and it seemed lame to link to (what would become) a signup page.

Agree that it needs _some_ kind of call-to-action though. There's nothing to do when you find an artist you like!


To be honest, I don't have Spotify and I'd still probably use it for that. Perhaps link to searches on multiple services? Youtube/SoundCloud/Amazon/iTunes maybe? With referral links you might even be able to make a few quid to cover the hosting at least.


What/where is your privacy policy?


I plan on adding it today and will send it to any users who signed up before it was posted. I know how important it is so it's my top priority to finish by end of day.


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