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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