I’m not really tech savvy
That's how they get you ;) There is a trade-off between privacy and security on one end, and convenience and ease of use on the other. Microsoft, Google and all the others profiting off of your data know this and offer you convenience and ease of use in exchange for you giving them all your data. So be prepared to give up a little of that convenience and getting a little more tech savvy.
I recommend you take a look at https://nextcloud.com/ - it's a self-hosted cloud service solution that offers file storage, calendar, notes, and a lot more. If you don't feel comfortable hosting your own just yet, there are providers out there that will host one for you for a few $ a month.
Cwtch is a decentralized, privacy-preserving, multi-party messaging protocol that can be used to build metadata resistant applications.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.toot.pt/post/346
> "Cwtch is decentralized and focused on metadata-privacy in addition to communications privacy. Unlike other communication platforms, none of your messages are routed through a centralized server that has access to metadata such as your social network of friends, or who sent and received a particular message." > > Looks like it's based on the onion-routed protocol used in Ricochet, so should be fairly robust (but not yet audited).
If you've been experiencing Tor network connectivity and performance issues lately, you're not the only one since many others have had issues with onion sites loading slower or not loading at all.
Feb 10 5pm US Eastern: Thanks for the lively discussion everyone. It has given me plenty to think about. We are starting to go in circles, and actually new comments are increasingly rare, so I've l...
Are you a Go developer? Are you worried that Google is not collecting enough data about you? Well fear not, it appears that opt-out telemetry is about to be added to the Go toolchain!
