OS/Privacy Focused Tools: do you care where they’re hosted?

There’s a lot of great tools out there, some open source self hostable with a managed service (SaaS), some privacy focused that aren’t self hostable.

Hosting these tools means putting the code, and your data, in a datacenter somewhere. The biggest options are all owned by “Privacy Questionable” companies such as Google with GCP, Amazon with AWS, and Microsoft with Azure.

Theres a deeper level; many services don’t manage their “stack”. Authentication (your email and access logs) are farmed out …

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