[kwlug-disc] FAANG-free list

[Benjamin Tompkins]

Sibername.com used to allow you to pay via money order.  They are based in
Ottawa.

Also, if you are looking at paying for email hosting and are worried about
privacy.  I would seriously consider not hosting in Canada.

Swiss privacy laws (where Protonmail is based) are much tighter than Canada
and they are outside of any Canadian jurisdiction.  Meaning that any
warrant (for whatever reason) would not do a single thing.  Protonmail also
as a plan that includes both email hosting and VPN services.

The only reason that I haven't made that jump myself?  I too am lazy.

Benjamin

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 5:01 PM Andrew Sullivan Cant <
acant at alumni.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> Paul,
>
> Nice list! Always good to see the options repeated.
>
> I already use a bunch of the things you suggestion. (i.e., DuckDuckGo,
> Firefox, OpenStreetMap)
>
> Gmail is still my email service, because I am lazy, but I did more to
> using my own domain in front of it a few year ago. At least I am not
> promoting gmail, and I can switch services more easily in the future.
> (Fastmail and protonmail seem interesting, but I would kind of list
> something that is in Canada.)
> Buuuut, I don't know anyway to do this without have to use a credit card
> to pay for domain name.
>
> For anyone looking to use OpenStreetMas for navigation I have had good
> success with 2 apps:
> * Maps.me <https://maps.me/en/download/>
> * OsmAnd <https://osmand.net/>
>
> They are both open source, and OsmAnd can also be used to contribute
> back to OSM.
>
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On 2020-04-19 12:07 a.m., Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> > Back in the Before Times I initiated a conversation about how to go
> > Google-free. In thinking more about it I decided Google should not be
> > the only target, and furthermore my list was turning into a blog post
> > and not a mailing list entry. So I made it a blog post:
> > http://pnijjar.freeshell.org/2020/faang-free/
> >
> > I am sure you have better suggestions than I do. Also I am almost
> > certainly missing categories (AWS? Ordering from Amazon?). I wrote
> > this response in the Before Times, and boy does it seem quaint now
> > (cash? I wanted to pay for things in cash?) but I point to it here in
> > the spirit of history (and I guess unethical self promotion).
> >
> > - Paul
> >
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