Software Alternatives
You can use alternatives in the following list to help migrate off of big tech platforms.
- Operating System (Windows, MacOS): Linux (Fedora)
- Email (Outlook, Gmail): ThunderBird, ProtonMail
- Storage (OneDrive): ProtonDrive
- Office (Microsoft Office, Word, Excel): LibreOffice
- Images (PhotoShop): GIMP
- Browser (Chrome, Edge): LibreWolf, FireFox. Tor, Brave
- IDE (Visual Studio Code): VS Codium
- Search (Google, Bing): DuckDuckGo, french, paid search, etc.
startpage.com: -Delivers anonymized Google results -Dutch company, EU data protection
DuckDuckGo: -Delivers anonymized Bing results, supplemented by other sources -American company -Clicking on advertisements may transmit data to Microsoft.
WhatsApp:
Azure/AWS/Google Cloud
Signal:
It's free (funded through donations)
Wider distribution, internationally and in Switzerland
It uses servers from Amazon and Google, but is fully encrypted.
Threema:
It costs a one-time fee of 6 francs.
Swiss company, own servers in Switzerland
Registration possible without a phone number
NextCloud Cloud Carib
//TODO: Proton has a mail client that simplifies domain forwarding configuration and includes a VPN