Thing is, if you’re bombarded by ads for a specific product, it means that company is spending a fortune on advertising. That is, the money their customers are paying them. I’m other words, the customers of those products are being ripped off.
They’ve been doing that for years. I’ve audited my own “likes” for years and found a bunch of BS. And we roasted one of our friends for years because he “liked” Miller Lite.
If company A has an ad that’s a good target and pays $20 and company B has an ad that’s a bad target but pays $100, which one are they going to show you?
still has financial incentive to keeping you engaged and searching instead of finding
How so
I didn’t say he shared the files. I linked to the documentary in the comment you replied to, but on PeerTube.
He hooked his laptop up to school servers and was copying all the data on them.
I dunno man, the problem with most private servers is that they’re just that. I don’t know where they are or who is hosting them. I only know where mine is.
Something something anything but metric…
You already forgot the other choices…
Self hosting and p2p
How about infosec.pub?
Privacy is not binary. It lives on a Spectrum. On one end you have Proton and Tuta. And on the other, Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, etc.
These are your choices. There’s no other way.
Users don’t need to configure email that’s kind of the point…
Users don’t “need” to configure these services either. That’s the entire point.
You can either configure it yourself, or use someone else’s that has configured it for you. Or you can choose one of the p2p apps that simply don’t require any configuration. These are your choices.
Adminforge is Linux tutorials
AdminForge runs a variety of services for public use.
And disroot has not the best reputation if I can trust the few top links in my search results due to its gtc where they mentioned that they would collaborate in criminal investigations as well.
Much like Proton (and every other company/org), they have to either choose to comply or close up shop.
I run several of these services with no company involved.
Publicly available from, as I said, individuals.
Died due to criminal prosecution for something Meta was able to get away with Scott-free.
God damn America.
Email is much more difficult to configure than most of these services. Some of them require no configuration at all. You just open the app, type in the recipient’s address, and Bob’s your uncle.
For others, it’s already available through community projects like AdminForge and Disroot.
You run your own or just choose from a variety of publicly-available ones.
Sorry, I don’t understand the words you’re using. Some of them are peer to peer. Some of them use servers which can be hosted by individuals. Some of them work locally over Bluetooth or WiFi.
I didn’t say without a server, I said without a company-hosted server.
Thank you for not being dishonest about that.