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Proton Drive

End-to-end encryption ensures that no one, not even us, can access your files. Files, file names, and folder names and more, are all fully encrypted at rest and in transit to your secure cloud.

Proton is based in Switzerland, which means your files are protected by some of the strictest privacy laws in the world. Proton Drive is a neutral and stable digital vault for your files.

Proton Drive is open source, so anyone can verify that our encrypted cloud storage works as described. Proton Drive is also routinely audited for privacy and security by independent third-party experts.

Sync

All Sync plans include strong encryption which helps protect your data from unauthorized access in the cloud.

Sync doesn't collect, sell or share your personal data or app usage information to advertisers or third-parties, and we do not claim ownership of your data.

Sync is safe to use, no matter where your business operates, with USA, EU / UK GDPR, and Canadian compliance built-in, including data residency.

Nextcloud

If you are interested in hosting your own file storage, you can consider Nextcloud (open source)

Nextcloud Files is a cloud storage and file sharing software that provides easy access to sharing and collaboration from anywhere, anytime. All that without any data leaks to third parties and with full control over the data.

Switch to Linux if you can. But if you are stuck with Windows for whatever reason, you can install Windows 11 and use a local account, by creating a Windows installation media using Rufus. You can also bypass the requirements for TPM 2.0, and skip privacy questions.

If you already have Windows 11 installed, you can switch from online account to local account:

1. Go to the Settings app,
2. Proceed to Accounts > Your info,
3. And select "Sign in with a local account instead".

In addition to the solutions mentioned in the linked post, my personal suggestions:

FOSS alternatives to Adobe Lightroom:

darktable - darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.

RawTherapee - RawTherapee is a powerful, cross-platform raw photo processing system, released as Free Software (GPLv3). It is designed for developing raw files from a broad range of digital cameras and targeted at users ranging from enthusiast newcomers who wish to broaden their understanding of how digital imaging works to professional photographers.

Not FOSS but a free image editing application that is easy to use (Windows only):

Paint.NET - Paint.NET is image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

The OSS Document Scanner is an Open Source app to scan all your documents. You either scan using your camera or by importing an image. The app will automatically detect you document within the photo and will crop the image.

Once the document is created you can detect text within the document using OCR.

You can also share your document as a PDF. If you want you can synchronize the app data with a webdav server (like nextloud) to never loose anything!

Why (according to Piped developer):

YouTube has an extremely invasive privacy policy which relies on using user data in unethical ways.

Here are some things about YouTube:

• Tracking via third-party cookies for other purposes without your consent.
• YouTube can delete your content if you violate the terms
• Reduction of legal period for cause of action
• YouTube may use your personal information for marketing purposes
• YouTube can view your browser history
• YouTube can use your content for all their existing and future services
• YouTube gathers information about you through third parties
• YouTube can license user content to third parties
• YouTube provider makes no warranty regarding uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free service
• Deleted videos are not really deleted
• Your data may be processed and stored anywhere in the world
• YouTube is only available to users over a certain age
• YouTube can suspend your account for several reasons
• YouTube has non-exclusive use of your content
• The court of law governing the terms is in the US
• YouTube collects your IP address for location use

Source: https://tosdr.org/en/service/274

A lot of inspiration came from NewPipe and Invidious.

I created Piped to fix issues in NewPipe and Invidious which are architectural issues and cannot be fixed easily.

What is "&udm=14"? https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

Source on Github: https://github.com/readtedium/udm14