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How I’m Building a Trump-Proof Tech Stack Without Big Tech

www.joanwestenberg.com How I’m Building a Trump-Proof Tech Stack Without Big Tech

The world can no longer trust American tech. If that sounds dramatic, take a step back and consider the facts. The United States is a nation in the thrall of authoritarianism, owned and operated almost completely by a far-right doomsday cult intent on betraying every alliance, every contract, every...

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TKDR Skip the first 6 paragraphs if you want to avoid a potential echo chamber, otherwise read and feel whatever you feel.
The article mainly focuses on FOSS. It is very detailed going into browsers, then cloud services, etc. This article doesn’t go into hardware.
On a related note I highly recommend studying this HUGE all inclusive page on building your own. More power to you. https://wiki.futo.org/wiki/Introduction_to_a_Self_Managed_Life:_a_13_hour_%26_28_minute_presentation_by_FUTO_software
- I don't think a factual account of what's happening in America right now qualifies as an echo chamber.

Why would the writer keep giving a lack of integrated Google account sync as a limitation of privacy focused browsers? Especially when they're trying to free themselves from control by American companies and mention Google specifically? Seems like a feature rather than a limitation to me.

Have a look at https://european-alternatives.eu/, https://www.privacytools.io/ and https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/

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