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Google has fallen out of favor with many web users, due to their tracking and sale of user data,^[1] and liberal activism and polices.^[2] This article gives some alternatives to their services.

Search engines

DuckDuckGo - a search engine that says it does to not track users. They also offer "Privacy Essentials" on Firefox and Chrome and "Privacy browser" on mobile.
Result Hunter - a search engine that favors conservative results, as opposed to Google which favors liberal results.
Mojeek - a search engine that doesn't track people and uses a proprietary page ranking engine as opposed to PageRank, and is intended to give unbiased search results.
Seek Find - a Christian search engine. Cannot be used for a general search, but a search over the Internet for information from Christian sites.
Worthy Christian Search - A similar Christian search engine.
StartPage - another privacy focused search option

Email

Tutanota.com - A robust service with paid and free tiers, which offers end-to-end encryption for sending messages, and encrypted mailboxes.
ProtonMail - another service which offers "trust no one" encryption.
Fastmail - a paid service, but worth it. Friends with DuckDuckGo.

Alternative browsers to Chrome

Mozilla Firefox - uses its own ("Quantum") engine instead of Chromium's Blink engine.
Microsoft Edge - better on power usage than Chrome, but uses Google's Blink engine
Brave - friends with DuckDuckGo. Great for privacy, but enables tracking for Facebook and Twitter by default. Uses Google's Blink engine.

Alternatives to Android

iPhone and iPad - the most popular alternative.
Windows Phone (dead) - more powerful than either Android or iOS, many think it was a superior option, but Microsoft killed it in 2017 due to failure to penetrate the market. The latest is Windows 10 Mobile.
Ubuntu Touch (discontinued) - open-source, many think it was awesome too, but it discontinued by Canonical.
Symbian OS - discontinued some time ago, but some think it was good, and it featured Opera.
Blackberry 10 - uses a microkernel for better reliability, and also allows direct filesystem access (unlike Android and iOS), but restricted (unlike Windows and MacOS).

Alternatives to Google Drive

Sync.com
Resilio Sync
Amazon S3
Dropbox - Although not very private, this is at least not known to sell user data to commercial entities

Alternatives to Chromebooks

Chrome OS is marketed as being just a browser on bare-metal, although it did recently add Google Drive and a Debian subsystem so one could install Android and Linux apps. But it's given Google's interest in harvesting private data, it still causes some people concern that it may be engaging in unwanted behavior. Some lightweight alternatives are:

GNU/Linux (such as Mint or Ubuntu) on a "thin-and-light" laptop. Chrome, Firefox, and Opera all work well on Ubuntu.
Windows Lite (upcoming, rumored) - Windows with the Linux kernel.

References

[1] ttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/google-says-it-doesnt-sell-your-data-heres-how-company-shares-monetizes-and

[2] ttps://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/31/five-times-google-was-caught-red-handed-on-bias-and-censorship/

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-Google tracks users and sells their data, and Google is also liberal. Google is very addictive. This article gives some alternatives.
+'''Google''' has fallen out of favor with many web users, due to their tracking and sale of user data,<ref>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/google-says-it-doesnt-sell-your-data-heres-how-company-shares-monetizes-and</ref> and liberal activism and polices.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/31/five-times-google-was-caught-red-handed-on-bias-and-censorship/</ref> This article gives some alternatives to their services.
 == Search engines ==
-*[[Duck Duck Go|DuckDuckGo]] - a search engine that is said to not track people. It also has "Privacy Essentials" on Firefox and Chrome and "Privacy browser" on mobile.
+*[[Duck Duck Go|DuckDuckGo]] - a search engine that says it does to not track users. They also offer "Privacy Essentials" on Firefox and Chrome and "Privacy browser" on mobile.
 *[[Result Hunter]] - a search engine that favors conservative results, as opposed to Google which favors liberal results.
 *[[Mojeek]] - a search engine that doesn't track people and uses a proprietary page ranking engine as opposed to PageRank, and is intended  to give unbiased search results.
 *[https://www.seekfind.org/  Seek Find] - a Christian search engine. Cannot be used for a general search, but a search over the Internet for information from Christian sites.
 *[https://www.worthyseek.com/  Worthy Christian Search] - A similar Christian search engine.
+*[https://www.startpage.com/ StartPage]  - another privacy focused search option
 == Email ==
+*[https://tutanota.com/ Tutanota.com] - A robust service with paid and free tiers, which offers end-to-end encryption for sending messages, and encrypted mailboxes.
+*ProtonMail - another service which offers "trust no one" encryption.
 *Fastmail - a paid service, but worth it. Friends with DuckDuckGo.
 == Alternative browsers to Chrome ==
-*[[Microsoft Edge]] - better on power usage than Chrome, much more secure, and better with privacy
+*[[Mozilla Firefox]] - uses its own ("Quantum") engine instead of Chromium's Blink engine.
-*[[Opera Software|Opera]] - efficient on power and RAM, lightweight
+*[[Microsoft Edge]] - better on power usage than Chrome, but uses Google's Blink engine
-*[[Mozilla Firefox]] - uses Gecko instead of Chrome's Blink engine.
+<!--*[[Opera Software|Opera]] - efficient on power and RAM, lightweight - Removed due to being bought out by a shady Chinese company-->
-*[https://www.brave.com/  Brave] - friends with DuckDuckGo. Great for privacy but, enables tracking for Facebook and Twitter by default.
+*[https://www.brave.com  Brave] - friends with DuckDuckGo. Great for privacy, but enables tracking for Facebook and Twitter by default. Uses Google's Blink engine.
 == Alternatives to Android ==
 *iPhone and iPad - the most popular alternative.
-*Windows Phone (dead) - more powerful than either Android or iOS, many think it was awesome, but Microsoft killed it in 2017 due to failure to penetrate the market. The latest is Windows 10 Mobile.
+*Windows Phone (dead) - more powerful than either Android or iOS, many think it was a superior option, but Microsoft killed it in 2017 due to failure to penetrate the market. The latest is Windows 10 Mobile.
 *Ubuntu Touch (discontinued) - open-source, many think it was awesome too, but it discontinued by Canonical.
 *Symbian OS - discontinued some time ago, but some think it was good, and it featured Opera.
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 == Alternatives to Google Drive ==
+*Sync.com
 *Resilio Sync
 *Amazon S3
-*[[Dropbox (cloud service)|Dropbox]]
+*[[Dropbox (cloud service)|Dropbox]] - Although not very private, this is at least not known to sell user data to commercial entities
 == Alternatives to Chromebooks ==
-Some say that Chrome OS is just a browser on bare-metal, although it recently added Google Drive and a Debian subsystem so one could install Android and Linux apps. But it's Google. So here are some alternatives.
+Chrome OS is marketed as being just a browser on bare-metal, although it did recently add Google Drive and a Debian subsystem so one could install Android and Linux apps. But it's given Google's interest in harvesting private data, it still causes some people concern that it may be engaging in unwanted behavior. Some lightweight alternatives are:
-*Ubuntu on a Dell laptop or a small Acer laptop. Chrome, Firefox, and Opera all work well on Ubuntu. Ubuntu works better on a Dell or Acer laptop than on other laptops.
+*GNU/Linux (such as Mint or Ubuntu) on a "thin-and-light" laptop. Chrome, Firefox, and Opera all work well on Ubuntu.
 *Windows Lite (upcoming, rumored) - Windows with the Linux kernel.
+==References==
+{{reflist}}
+[[Category:Internet]]