Been trying to get away from DuckDuckGo because of their support of “AI” stuff, but come on, one of these isn’t even in English, and that’s what I have my language set to.

  • myrmidex@belgae.social
    5·
    20 hours ago

    Same, been there too. Still, it’s easy to miss articles on them, they only pop up once every so often. Same for Proton.

    • Tchallenge@awful.systemsEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      I might be a bit out of the loop, what about proton? I know they have their own AI chatbot, but did I miss anything else about them? AFAIK they are nowhere near Brave in terms of being utter garbage.

        • Tchallenge@awful.systemsEnglish
          2·
          7 hours ago

          Thanks for the reply and source! I am not a fan of this, but not quite convinced to switch yet. May I ask what you switched to or what alternative email providers you could recommend? From my not very in-depth research, self-hosting an email server seems to be quite a nightmare.

          • myrmidex@belgae.social
            2·
            7 hours ago

            I was weary of self-hosting email myself too, didn’t want to go down that rabbit hole. After some searching, I’ve landed on migadu.com. I just renewed the subscription after the first year, was 19$ a year for the micro plan, which is more than enough for my needs. Not sure why they use dollars though, as they are a Swiss company.

            So far no problems, have ~10 of my domains hooked up for email.

            The only downside I can spot is it’s bring-your-own-domain, so take that into account.

            • Tchallenge@awful.systemsEnglish
              2·
              6 hours ago

              Appreciate the suggestion, I will look into it. I don’t have my own domain yet, but I guess it is about time…