These alternatives to popular apps can help reclaim your online life from billionaires and surveillance | TechCrunch
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There is immense power in being in control of your own data. As ownership and governance of apps and online services consolidate, it's understandable if you want to consider your options when it comes to where you store your private data and records of your everyday activities.
Other read-later apps track usage in order to find trends and recommend content (often sponsored) to you. Some want this, and that's cool! But some don't.
Signal is one of the most revered secure messaging apps for the simple reason that, by design, it knows nothing about you. On occasion, Signal will make this point by publishing the search warrants it sometimes receives, knowing that it can't provide to the authorities data that it doesn't keep.
Wallabag is a strong competitor with article-saving tools and features as good as what Pocket offers. You can save your must-reads for later on a Wallabag server you can run for free on a network attached storage (NAS) server that you host somewhere in a closet at home, or hosted in the cloud for a low-cost subscription.
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