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Search Risk – How Google Almost Killed Proton Mail (proton.me)
submitted 1 week ago by pooky55@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Google is excelling again - as the whole "uncensored" Big-Tech IT now.

The short summary is that for nearly a year, Google was hiding Proton Mail from search results for queries such as ‘secure email’ and ‘encrypted email’. This was highly suspicious because Proton Mail has long been the world’s largest encrypted email provider.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It is good. The problem I’m having is they still gobble tons of data from any Android device that hasn’t been rooted and locked down.

For example the Google Play store, the main source of apps for everyone, grabs what when and how of everything one touches in there, and they squirrel it away with all your other juicy information to craft the better advertising weapon.

Yes, F-droid, apkmirror, others. But the point is it's not enough to just limit interactions with official Google apps, the platform itself has to be locked down via a custom rom (which is its own, different set of challenges).

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 1 week ago

Well... Tech nerds lead the charge on making Google who they, gonna need toead the charge on unwinding this clown as corporate regime.