Email program: Thunderbird
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Search: Aside from self-anonymized services like Startpage, there is also a browser extension for Firefox that routes your Google-going data through an anonymizing server.
Iām not saying Google doesnāt spy, (most of the time Iāve seen it, āthe pot calling the kettle blackā means calling someone out for a trait you happen to have, too).
Iām just saying that, while Microsoft may not do it through their web browser (it barely even works as a browser, how and why would you expect it to work as a surveillance tool?), the only sensible reactions to Microsoft trying to imply theyāre somehow not as deep into the intelligence-industrial complex as Google is to either quietly shake your head, or burst out laughing.
Is there an alternative to PPT, WORD and EXCEL? Or are those tools just another completely wrong approach to communication anyway? As far as Iām concerned I hate them. MS Project most of all.