I would second this, I've used it multiple times and I have no desire to use anything else, because it provides all the functionality I need. Strongly recommend.
"Still doing correctly"? They are very generous with their space allowance and you gotta wonder why. I haven't read the privacy policy, but I wouldn't be surprised if every email you receive, everything you buy, every account you own is feeding into advertising profiles about you as a user.
"I also know that they had some shady decisions in the past." I am assuming this is a reference to responding to a legal order to hand over details for a user. Any company would have to do the same. The problem is with the law, not the company.
I mean you're partly correct, but often change doesn't come from politicians. It comes from the public saying "no fucking way", and politicians eventually going "ah, fuck, it'll cost us unless we do this".
It is fine to acknowledge corruption in the system, it is another thing to give up trying to fight it.
Tony Benn “There are two flames burning in the human heart all the time. The flame of anger against injustice, and the flame of hope you can build a better world.”. We, and this planet, cannot afford let those flames go out.
Or governments should legislate companies. They'll pollute until they're stopped like they used to allow people to work with radioactive substances without protection. Companies will try and profit regardless until a government steps in and says, not this way.
We should obviously try to re-use, reduce, recycle, but we cannot do this on our own, and the vast majority won't, so a small minority that cares is carrying the burden while pissing in the wind.
Thanks for the links. It looks like they engaged, but it is a little waffley, and it doesn't exactly explain why they purchased them and where they see the ROI. If they are investing capital, they would need a return to make it profitable. It didn't touch of whether they were after ad space without data (non targetted which isn't worth a lot less, but may guarantee real estate), or a paid for service where Startpage will generate it's own profits from services. Without further clarification, it doesn't sit comfortably.
A fully working Linux Phone with good battery life that supports a good matrix client with e2 encryption. GrapheneOS is good, but we need initiatives independent from Google.
I was on windows 10 without an SSD. There is only so much dog slow you can handle before you want to change it. I was amazed by how much faster linux was. Windows 10 was the first windows I noticed that struggled this much. It's like they gave up on performance and just relied on the hardware. I dual booted from there with linux mint and over time, I started windows less. I haven't used it in months.
I would suggest Linux Mint Cinnamon. It's very Windows like, and just works. It's a great distro to get started. I started on it, and many others have. Non-techy relatives really took to it also.
I'm sure they do, but this feels like 1% of 1% of users. To trash an email client that will be vastly superior to most for a ridiculously niche case even amongst nerds is a bit weird.
Ah, I would favour Signal to Telegram as it has privacy and shared media. In Signal, on a chat, clicking ... and All media, you can do that. I can imagine Matrix hasn't got that level of maturity yet but I haven't tested.
I would second this, I've used it multiple times and I have no desire to use anything else, because it provides all the functionality I need. Strongly recommend.