(2021-03-22) Increasing Privacy of my apps

Feeling a bit icked-out after (2021-03-20) Why You Suddenly Need To Stop Using Google Chrome - Surveillance Capitalism is out of hand....

Yesterday

Mar22

  • realize I want links in work apps to launch Chrome, but links in personal apps to launch Firefox. Decide to install Browsersaurus.

Wondering whether to get my Nine app reading my Tuffmail account, and then maybe gmail?

  • (haven't done anything about that)

Apr06

Hmm trying to read recommendation posts is crazy-making, because you get lots of "even Mozilla is evil" without great alternatives.

Jun08 still doing the above

  • DuckDuckGo is less enjoyable as replacement for Google for searching
  • I still use google maps
  • Firefox is a little clunkier than Chrome, but I'm ok with it
  • I'm still sticking with Android... though it smells like the Pixel-2-XL is reaching end of useful life - no more security updates, battery-life seems to have dropped in the last couple weeks....

Jul01

  • have reverted to Google as default search engine. Biggest DuckDuckGo gripes
    • poor feedback when your search includes quoted phrase
    • no book search results

Jul19

  • Tuffmail says they're shutting down as of Jan01, I'll need a new email service provider
    • do I give up and move it to Google/gmail? That smells like going in the opposite direction of this page!
    • Dec'2021: Migrating IMAP Providers

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