Imho a decision that doesn’t make sense, Google already has paid for all the infrastructure so running the service to them is pure profit, not to mention the lost possibility to upsell Google workspace (paid gmail with a custom domain) or Google cloud services to all their customers.
Although I would never subscribe to something from Google for my business, then when they eventually change mind and kill my product, i have to migrate in an hurry. I’ve been hurted too many times
No Google service can last. I’ve come to the point where I no longer trust any new product they put out.
Yeah, I need to switch to another authenticator app because I’m not sure I even trust that at this point.
Edit: love this community, say I’m looking to switch and I get a plethora of suggestions within the hour lol
You can try Aegis, it’s great
I suggest Authy, BTW. It’s an excellent option IMHO, with cross device synchronization. Thats my favorite part, being able to run it on multiple phones at once without any hassle. And desktop.
If you don’t like the idea of your (encrypted) TOTP database being synced via a third party, another alternative could be to use KeepassXC’s TOTP support and sync the database via a file service you trust (Like a Nextcloud instance)
You don’t even need to trust the cloud storage as long as you have a sufficiently strong database password.
Sure; But that’s only true for as long as it’s true - So I can understand the kind of person who isn’t comfortable storing their password dbs on someone else’s servers.
You will find some good options here https://www.privacyguides.org/en/multi-factor-authentication/#authenticator-apps
I switched to protonmail and I am really happy with that decision. Not saying that’s the right client for you but I upgraded as well after using it for free for several months which gave me the drive, the calendar and the vpn also. The vpn works great on iOS and it does work on Linux Mint, but the GUI version is awful, skip that and just use the cli. The drive is really cool and it encrypts all the data. The calendar seems kind of pointless but it’s encrypted so that’s cool I guess.
Same here. The only problem with protonmail is that there is almost no option to use standard clients. For mail you have protonmail bridge which is pain in the ass but better than nothing. Calendar and storage is practically useless if you are not able to integrate it to the standard phone app or desktop client.
But I understand that this is the price for encryption.
I don’t really have that issue but I realize most people do. I prefer to use the web client for desktop and the app for iOS. Privacy and encryption is a huge pain in the ass and it comes with a lot of inconvenience, but the flip side is knowing that I paid for a service that is going to do it’s best to keep my data secure and most importantly, not look at it. When I heard microsoft was reading peoples emails and unlocking files in onecloud I was floored. I can’t believe we trust these companies with any type of messaging service.