The use of "big" cloud services, going a little bit technical

[jonah (Jonah Aragon)]

Perhaps in relation to:

Does Privacy Guides have a stance on self-hosting?

I’ve noticed that while self-hosted or self-hostable software does appear in PG’s recommendations (e.g. Nextcloud, SearXNG), the emphasis seems to be on software that incorporates end-to-end encryption. I think some kind of guide detailing the pros and cons of hosting data on your own machines vs using an external end-to-end encrypted service would be warranted. Of course, self-hosting and e2ee aren’t always mutually exclusive, but it would be good to get an idea of what benefit each provides an…