ATROCITY-FREE* TECH:
A WHITELIST
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web browser
Firefox is owned by the Mozilla Foundation, a US-based non-profit organisation.
Tor provides access through a decentralised, encrypted network, providing anonymous browsing. Tor is owned by the Tor Project, a US-based non-profit organisation with thousands of volunteers.
DuckDuckGo is an US-based company known for its privacy-focused search engine. DuckDuckGo does not track or store personal information from its users.
MullVad is owned by Mullvad VPN AB, a company based in Sweden. It is known for its strong emphasis on privacy and security.
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search engine
DuckDuckGo is an US-based company known for its privacy-focused search engine. DuckDuckGo does not track or store personal information from its users. It uses its own crawler and is not based on Google or Bing.
Good is a privacy-oriented non-profit search engine from Germany. It uses the Brave (US-based) search index. Good requires a small fee to provide an advertisement-free space.
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web site development
Joomla is an open source web site development and content management system supported by US-based Open Source Matters Inc.
Webnode is owned by team.blue, a Belgian company focusing on online business for entrepreneurs
Wordpress is owned by the Wordpress Foundation, a US based non-profit.
Squarespace is an US-based public company
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office suite
LibreOffice is a desktop-based office suite. It is open source and owned by the Document Foundation, a German-based non-profit organisation of free software advocates.
Cryptpad is an open-source browser-based, fully encrypted collaboration suite. It is developed by the French company XWiki.
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email account
Protonmail is part of a set of Proton services operated by Proton AG, a Swiss corporation whose primary shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation based in Switzerland.
Runbox Solutions AS is an independent, employee-owned company based in Norway offering encrypted email and runs on renewables.
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email client
Protonmail is part of a set of Proton services operated by Proton AG, a Swiss corporation whose primary shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Thunderbird is owned by the Mozilla Foundation, a US-based non-profit organisation.
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team collaboration
Mattermost is an open-source, self-hostable online chat service with file sharing, search, and third-party application integrations. Mattermost is an US-based company.
Infomaniak kChat is a Swiss-based team communication platform owned by Swiss cloud provider Infomaniak.
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messaging
Signal is owned by the Signal Foundation, a US-based nonprofit organization focusing on developing open-source privacy technology to protect user communication
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cloud services
Jottacloud is a Norwegian company that owns its own datacentres and servers.
Filen is a privately-owned encrypted cloud storage platform using their own servers in Germany. They don’t use Microsoft or Amazon-owned data centres.
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document storage
Proton Drive is an encrypted storage and collaboration platform whose primary shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation based in Switzerland.
Tresorit is an encrypted cloud storage platform owned by the Swiss Post, the state-owned national postal service.
Dropbox is owned by a US-based public company.
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VPNs
Proton VPN is part of a set of Proton services operated by Proton AG, a Swiss corporation whose primary shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation based in Switzerland.
MullVad is owned by Mullvad VPN AB, a company based in Sweden. It is known for its strong emphasis on privacy and security.
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social media
BlueSky is a US-based company owned by its CEO and other Bluesky Social employees
Mastadon is open source and incorporated as a us-based non-profit organisation.
Flashes is a photo sharing app based on your BlueSky account. It is an US-based company owned by its CEO and other Bluesky Social employees.
Pixelfed is an open source, decentralised photo & video-sharing platform based in Canada.
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video sharing
Vimeo is owned by an US-based public company
Dailymotion is a French online video sharing platform owned by Canal+.
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large language models (LLMs)
Duck.ai is owned by DuckDuckGo, a US-based company known for its privacy-focused search engine. DuckDuckGo does not track or store personal information of its users.
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translation
Deepl is owned by a Germany company.