Ten Privacy-Friendly Big Tech Alternatives
February 18, 2025
When you use a service that appears to be free, the company providing it is making money by collecting your data and selling access to you as a customer to advertisers.
Amazon uses your Alexa voice commands to train its AI, Dropbox had a breach in April that exposed customers’ passwords, and apps like Facebook and Google make billions of dollars gathering and sharing every little detail about you.
Luckily for you, there are privacy-friendly alternatives. The article discusses some proven ones:
- Instead of Dropbox …
- Instead of Google Docs or Microsoft 365 …
- Instead of Google Keep or Apple Notes …
- Instead of Google Photos or Apple Photos …
- Instead of Apple Home or Google Home …
- Instead of Adobe Acrobat …
- Instead of CamScanner …
- Instead of Twitch …
- Instead of Facebook Messenger …
- Instead of Pocket …
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