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It matters to me. I don’t use Google to create personal documents precisely because I can’t trust or verify that their apps aren’t doing more than provide stor
by barnabee 2y ago
It matters to me.
I don’t use Google to create personal documents precisely because I can’t trust or verify that their apps aren’t doing more than provide storage, versioning, conflict resolution, and an editing UI without my permission.
That said, I think it’s way past time to give up on hoping to trust a cloud / “big tech” provider.
There are now only three models for applications I’m happy to use, and I try to do everything in one of those three where possible:
1) Verifiably end-to-end encrypted. This is the only option way I can get comfortable with cloud software.
2) Self hosted applications.
3) Local first applications with “dumb filestore” data syncing via a provider of my choice (likely self hosted).
In all cases I have a strong preference for truly open source (avoiding VC funded open core weirdness etc.) and try to donate more than the equivalent subscription or purchase price for proprietary alternatives to the projects I find that meet my needs.