I left google search for duckduckgo a few years ago due to all the marketing drivel returned. I guess there is yet another, better reason, to avoid google.

As for gmail, it joined my old yahoo mail as a dumping ground. If some site wants an email, they get my gmail address, which I never go to these days.

But how did google get this person's info ? Are they spying on their emails, or worse yet, are they scraping data for apps you installed on your android phone ?

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starik36 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What do you think is going to happen when DDG or Fastmail gets a FISA warrant? You think they will stand their ground and go to prison to protect your info?

History (like the PRISM project) says no.

	▲	ceejayoz 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The article indicates even Meta pushed back on some of these: > Unlike Thomas-Johnson, users in that case were given the chance to fight the subpoena because they were made aware of it before Meta complied.
	▲	yborg 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Fastmail is Australian, though?

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Forgeties79 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just wish I could get off gcal. Too many friends/family on it

	▲	JoshTriplett 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Fastmail's calendar works reasonably well. My two complaints with it: - There isn't a convenient calendar widget; Google's calendar widget only works with Google's calendar. I'd like something exactly like Google's calendar widget but working with Fastmail's calendar. - Sites that integrate with Google Calendar but not with arbitrary CalDAV servers. I could live without the latter, but the former is a dealbreaker; I'd switch given a functional widget that is fully self-contained and doesn't require some separate sync app.
	▲	ceejayoz 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Google Calendar is pretty cross-compatible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar
	▲	bl4kers 40 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Huh? There is little to no lock-in