Category: Internet

  • 2. Take Back Control: Search with Kagi

    In this series of posts, I am describing several essential services to which I migrated after years of enjoying “free” sweet convenience, opting for more user-centric privacy focused paid solutions. In the first post I talked about my switch from Google’s Gmail to Fastmail as my preferred email provider.

    In this post, I will discuss how I replaced the internet search giant Google with Kagi Search. After all, who wants to scroll through pages of irrelevant advertisements just to find something relevant to their search prompts?

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  • 1. Take Back Control: Email with Fastmail

    In an age where big tech companies dominate our digital life, it’s more important than ever to take back control. In this series of posts, I will describe several essential services to which I migrated after years of enjoying “free” sweet convenience, opting for more user-centric paid solutions. Because as we all know, if something is free, it usually means that we are not using a product but we are the product.

    First service I replaced in this journey of mine was my email provider. As you probably can guess, I said goodbye to one of the well-known email giants—Gmail, owned by Google.

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