The world needs a privacy-respecting Evernote replacement. Evernote is the market leader in note-taking apps and has some tremendous features. However, it stores user data unencrypted on web-facing servers, it's been hacked and lost user data, and the CEO only reversed [a policy decision to allow employees to read user...
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Below is my 2017 review of Bear, privacy concerns and all. A particularly vocal critic of my view seems to imply that my criticism is against the Italian origins of the Bear app. Even a cursory reading of what I wrote will show this is not the case. I have nothing against Italians. I was merely imploring the potential customers of Bear to consider that their data might be subject to Italian law, about which most will know very little.
Nearly three years later, I can offer more...
I have tried Joplin. I think it's a good app. I had it in this list before, but prefer Crypt.ee. But there's nothing wrong with Joplin.
Calendaring is something I am so angry about, you have no idea. Absolutely no privacy-oriented service provides a fully-featured, synced calendaring option, despite it being the back-bone of many people's online work flow. The closest thing used to be Countermail's calendar, which was zero-knowledge encrypted and built into their...
Chrome is closed-source and part of Google's privacy-invading business model, which works by harvesting user data. Firefox is open source, so you can check what it's doing under the good. It's also more configurable (about:config) and its Nov 2017 update made it faster than its competitors.
ProtonVPN is a VPN service run by the creators of ProtonMail. It's part of their wider efforts to give people options for protecting their online privacy and anonymity.
Protonmail have done a lot to promote online privacy. They have done this by developing an email service intended to challenge the likes of Gmail and other "free" online services that violate the privacy of their users. They are not the only company to do this, but they should be praised for pursuing a laudable goal, making more people privacy-aware and for providing a viable way to protect privacy.
However, their team leave many unanswered questions on their forum, so here are...
The world needs a privacy-respecting Evernote replacement. Evernote is the market leader in note-taking apps and has some tremendous features. However, it stores user data unencrypted on web-facing servers, it's been hacked and lost user data, and the CEO only reversed [a policy decision to allow employees to read user...
Sunsama is yet another "productivity" app that syncs only with Google calendar.
Please get it through your thick heads, Sunsama devs: Privacy is important! Google disrespects privacy! If you made products that didn't rely on Google, you'd be doing both the world a favor and opening up to a larger customer base.
There is no way that I will expose my customers' data or my personal data to Google's privacy-disrespecting, data-harvesting policies and...
Notion.so are receiving well-deserved praised for their attractive-looking, flexible and very feature-rich platform. Primarily, Notion enables users to organize data in a Wiki-style system within inter-linked pages. Many templates exist for those pages, everything from simple blank pages to calendars, meetings, tables of various kinds, and far beyond. Each page can have embedded links, documents (including embedded), images, tables (with different column types), calendars (whole-page or...
I was very long winded in answering you the first time. Think of it like this: Sync.com is a massive security and privacy improvement over Dropbox.
It's like this: If Sync.com is lying, they're offering you the same security as Dropbox when they are telling the truth. If Sync.com is telling the truth, you're WAY better off than with Dropbox. Therefore, Sync.com is a much better choice for both privacy (the company can't spy on your files) and security (they can't lose...
Hi browsingandstuff,
Your question concerns two things: to what extent we should pursue privacy and, more specifically, how good is Sync.com for your privacy?
Let me take Sync.com first. You're right: it's not open source. Ideally, it would be, so that everyone could inspect their code, which is the foremost source of trust. However, how 'good' for your privacy Sync.com depends on other things. So whilst it doesn't score open source points, it scores big in other...
Google Keep invades your privacy; it's one of Google's ways of harvesting your private data: you are the product. The answer is to use encrypted, trustworthy, open source apps. Turtl is such a project. Recent development has been slow, but it's the most similar (to Keep) end-to-end encrypted note-taking app. Protect your privacy!
