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Alternatives for WhatsApp and Google Search that won't sell your information?
Signal and DuckDuckGo
Installing Signal is the easy part. Convincing your friends to do the same is the impossible part.
I was surprised by how many of my friends were using both when I first installed it. Just try it out.
I already did and managed to get two friends to use it too but they only use it to talk to me
DuckDuckGo does sell your information, doesn't it? I thoughts that was their business model.
for WhatsApp : signal, telegram (for large news group chats) and jami
for google: searX/searXNG (really customizable) startpage (uses google search) ecosia (eco friendly and uses bing) and finally brave search (best independent search engine)
That's why you have to find services you pay for with your own money. So you know how they make money.
I love kagi. I know exactly how they make their money... because i pay them.
Signal an Duckduckgo or Startpage
Signal is like WhatsApp but you don't even need to share your phone number for it anymore. You can have an username and share that with people.
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaGer
It currently supports the following languages/regions:
Dansk (Danmark)
Deutsch (Österreich/Schweiz/Deutschland)
English (Great Britain/Ireland/Malaysia/USA)
Español (España/México)
Suomalainen (Suomi)
Français (Canada/France)
Italiano (Italia)
Nederlands (Nederland)
Polski (Polska)
Svenska (Sverige)
Source: https://metager.org/lang
There is a TOR-hidden service too:
https://metager.org/tor
It is open source:
https://gitlab.metager.de/open-source/MetaGer
And has other useful features, for example:
Source: https://metager.org/tips
Alternatively I use some SearxNG-instances, preferably hosted in the EU:
https://searx.space
Best alternative for WhatsApp would be Signal
I don't know if such a long list fits into Lemmy.
….iMessage MUHAHAHAHAHA