At the moment I'm still tied to Chrome for bookmark sync but that's about it.
At the moment I'm still tied to Chrome for bookmark sync but that's about it.
You can sync bookmarks with Firefox, too. And you should be able to migrate your bookmarks just as well...
This sounds nothing like a monopoly.
"Employees of Alphabet and its subsidiaries and controlled affiliates (“Alphabet”) should do the right thing – follow the law, act honorably, and treat each other with respect."
"If you are employed by a subsidiary or controlled affiliate of Alphabet, please comply with your employer’s code of conduct."
Google code of conduct: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html
"Don't be evil."
This is a silly game. Proof by corporate motto.
What's your recommendation for e-mail replacement?
You move away from a company because they are attempting "Don't be Evil", and failing in your opinion. Then you use a company that doesn't even try to rate on non-evilness and just cares about profit.
Microsoft has clearly abused their actual monopoly. They have been sued and lost for many things up to and including lying to the justice department. They are constantly being pushed back by Europe and South Korea on on bundling various things in an attempt to stifle competition. They had the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish memo where they announced all out assault on the open source community. They are patent trolling and rent seeking against Android handset makers today, right now (if they actually wanted to defend their IP they would sue google, but they want to rent seek). They put ads in local software running on peoples machines, right in the start menu. They built spyware into operating systems. They have had problems issuing rebates and paying kickbacks to squeeze other operating system out of the market. They have coerced standardization bodies. Microsoft uses security updates to force operating systems on people and stops support to convince people to move to newer versions for more money. I could go on like this for hours, but this 5 minutes of typing was enough to illustrate my point.
The worst that can be said about Google is that sometimes their things they give away for free don't work right in all the browsers, and even then they try to fix it.
This is astoundingly hypocritical.
Microsoft is down and out right now, and I'm using some of their services a bit more myself, but you need to bear in mind that if the tides change, so will Microsoft eventually.
Sidebar: For email, I recommend FastMail.
I used this for setup: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix
To get a full stack going with proper SSL auth it is somewhat involved. The good thing is once you do it, it works reliably and you OWN your email. Complying with every anti spam measure is critical though because you will be most likely sending mail to others on large servers that will reject your mail otherwise. Even then I had a lot of problems with Yahoo to get whitelisted, and Verizon just summarily blocks Digital Ocean hosts.
Secure Web Server series;
https://arstechnica.com/series/web-served/
Mail Server Series
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-t...
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/takin...
https://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/taking-e-mail-back-...
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/takin...
Surely they just removed two letters, and an apostrophe?