“If it’s free, you are the product”: many online services make a living by exploiting your personal data, i.e., selling it to advertising companies. Furthermore, most of these services are based in the United States and obey US laws like the PATRIOT ACT which deny all rights to privacy.
Using online services hosted in Europe means ensuring that you are not dependent on the laws of another continent. In addition, by hosting the service yourself, no third party can violate your privacy.
@:meta.F aims to <a href="@:link.dio"> offer around thirty free alternative services</a> to provide a substitute for those services which, once they get hold of us, proceed to feed upon our data.<br /> But there are many other players working to de-google-ify Internet and many other such services.
You will find <a href="#tips" rel="nofollow">below</a>, a list summarizing and supplementing the alternatives presented on the map. It is inspired by <a href="https://prism-break.org/en/">Prism-Break</a> which promotes other software in more specialized areas.
In the list, each service generally includes a <b>complex website</b><span aria-hidden="true">(<i class="fa fa-fw fa-cloud"></i>)</span> communicating with <b>software installed on a computer</b><span aria-hidden="true">(<i class="fa fa-fw fa-server"></i>)</span> which stores personal data and which can be accessed through various <b>home-based tools</b><span aria-hidden="true">(<i class="fa fa-fw fa-house"></i>)</span>.
So when we use Internet, we must necessarily <b>trust several links in the chain</b> joining us to our personal data online. Unless we self-host, <b>the <i lang="en">cloud</i> is always someone else"e;s computer</b>. It is therefore important to know who we are being asked to trust and what their software is doing with our data.
De-googl-ify Internet is a campaign that lasted three years (Oct. 2014 - Oct. 2017), but which is part of a more general Framasoft journey.<br /> Browse through the fresco below to discover the key dates (full screen <a href="@:link.dio/@:lang/timeline">available here</a>).
@framaservice allows you to create a website easily with free software tools and to host it on our servers. Zero publicity, zero trackers will prejudice the data of your visitors.
