Ask HN: For those without a Google account, why and how do you manage online?
2•HarshitDoshi•1h ago
If you don't have a Google account, what are your reasons? How do you handle essential tasks like email, cloud storage, and app usage? What challenges have you faced and how do you overcome them?
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prmoustache•1h ago
Email is no big deal, I used to have email with my own domain accounts, now that I changed registrar I decided 2 years ago to separate duty and I am using migadu of which I am satisfied.
I am installing mobile apps with accrescent, f-droid and aurora on grapheneos. There is a handful of apps I have never been able to install, because they are regionally limited and you have no control on regional accounts that aurora accounts use. I just live without them, no big deal. The service is usually provided by a web page anyway.
I am using an external cloud storage with wasabi as secondary backup site, I don't need any other cloud storage.
HarshitDoshi•1h ago
How about apps which only have the option of signing in with Google or some other social / 3rd party provider? Do you also not use other services like Microsoft's, Apple's, Facebook (Meta)'s? How do you in that case sign in?
__d•1h ago
Most service providers support “sign in with email”. I’ve yet to find a service where no provider has this option.
chistev•1h ago
Sounds complications
dotcoma•42m ago
Tuta for email, Mega, Filen, Internxt or iCloud for storage, and I would rather go back to a 1990s Nokia than use Android.
prmoustache•1h ago
I am installing mobile apps with accrescent, f-droid and aurora on grapheneos. There is a handful of apps I have never been able to install, because they are regionally limited and you have no control on regional accounts that aurora accounts use. I just live without them, no big deal. The service is usually provided by a web page anyway.
I am using an external cloud storage with wasabi as secondary backup site, I don't need any other cloud storage.
HarshitDoshi•1h ago
__d•1h ago
chistev•1h ago