Yes I agree entirely; you're 100% right. The only 3rd party service I now rely on personally is my domain registrar and an IMAP box which is unavoidable to participate in the world now. I've closed most of my online accounts with services over the last year already. I moved my code from github to local fossil instances about 3 months ago as well. Everything I use is hosted by reputable companies in the EU.
I'm not touching Android. Too many bad experiences there about a year ago for me.
The best solution is to run Replicant on a compatible device.
Short of that, you can just load CyanogenMod or another AOSP-based ROM on most devices. It's entirely possible to use Android without the proprietary Google Apps bundle.
That's a great deal. I've been looking for an email setup for the family that doesn't cost a fortune and this is the best I've seen. I am tired of running my own mail stack, what a PITA.
Indeed. Works out at £12 a year for me including domain. I tried loads of shared hosting before and it was all expensive and unreliable. You get 5 free boxes per domain as well which is enough.
If they did some static hosting included that'd be nice too but I can't complain.
I appreciate the sentiment there, but you'll have to close pretty much everything if you really want to protest the abuse.
Don't use any stock/operator/manufacturer version of Android either, by the way. They're full of spyware.