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Here are some of my additional recommendations:

Analytics - GoatCounter, Counter.dev

Keyboard - Unexpected Keyboard (A very cool keyboard)

Search - Neeva

Translate - Lingva

Some notes on the post:

- Protonmail as a company doesn’t have a very stellar reputation. I recommend hosting an e-mail server by yourself, or just use providers like Disroot Mail

- K9 Mail is an email client, not an email provider

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> I recommend hosting an e-mail server by yourself

As someone who did this from about 2001 until three years ago, I strongly suggest most people don't bother with this route.

GMail, Outlook, etc, all throw so many arbitrary and ever-changing security conditions to accept mail, it really isn't worth the hassle - or the lost clients from mails that don't reach their walled-garden end-points.

I've used Fastmail for a few years now, and I'm 99% sure that when I respond to an email sent from GMail, they'll actually receive it (So, I'm not talking about cold-emails, which I could just about begin to understand).

Same here. I finally stopped self-hosting this past year. I moved to privateemail through namecheap, where I have my domains. For me it actually ended up being cheaper than the VPS I was using for rolling my own email server (let alone the cost of my time administrating/maintaining).

Rolling your own is fine until you're explaining to your spouse why the realtor never received the email they're waiting for to adjust the closing documents.

I self-hosted since 2001 as well and not planning to stop.

I moved a few domains to fastmail and found that oddly AT&T ISP drops some emails from them on the floor. It is not a big deal given I don't know many people using AT&T's email but just thought I would add that for completeness sake.

I'm still self hosting after more than 15 years and I think what matters most is the reputation of your IP address, so it can be hit and miss depending on where you host your mail server...

Yeah, I get this and had changed servers a couple of times over the years and sought to have shared IPs verified, etc, but I just got fed up of jumping through hoops, despite doing everything 'right'.

I still host my personal email address, but I lost a few jobs sent to my work address by inadvertently being 'rude' in not responding to cold emails from GMail addresses I had in fact responded to. THAT was the situation that really irked. Such a stupid logic, or lack thereof.

Few more additions:

• Google Chrome

— Firefox - Safari - Vivaldi

• Google Chrome Passwords

— BitWarden - 1Password - KeePass - Enpass

• Google Authenticator

— Authy - 1Password - AndOTP - Aegis - Enpass

• Google Translate

— Deepl - WordReference - Lingva - bab.la

• Google Maps

— Dark Sky - Weather Underground - OsmAnd - Guru Maps

• WeTransfer

— Internxt Send - filetransfer.kpn.com

Also you can use the official Bitwarden clients with a free open source self-hosted backend, like vaultwarden [1].

[1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/

> Unexpected Keyboard (A very cool keyboard)

For Android, to be specific. I'd love for an alternative to SwiftKey after Microsoft acquired them.

I just blocked Internet access for it. Some minor functionality like GIF search is lost, but nothing serious.

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