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[–] platypus_plumba 3 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Alternatives for WhatsApp and Google Search that won't sell your information?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Signal and DuckDuckGo

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Installing Signal is the easy part. Convincing your friends to do the same is the impossible part.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was surprised by how many of my friends were using both when I first installed it. Just try it out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I already did and managed to get two friends to use it too but they only use it to talk to me

[–] platypus_plumba 1 points 3 months ago

DuckDuckGo does sell your information, doesn't it? I thoughts that was their business model.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Signal an Duckduckgo or Startpage

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

MetaGer is a metasearch engine focused on protecting users' privacy. Based in Germany, and hosted as a cooperation between the German NGO 'SUMA-EV - Association for Free Access to Knowledge' and the University of Hannover, the system is built on 24 small-scale web crawlers under MetaGer's own control. In September 2013, MetaGer launched MetaGer.net, an English-language version of their search engine.

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:

That you can hide yourself behind our proxyserver just by opening the result anonymously? Use "OPEN ANONYMOUSLY"; this also affects the following links.

Source: https://metager.org/tips

Alternatively I use some SearxNG-instances, preferably hosted in the EU:

https://searx.space

[–] joat_mon 3 points 3 months ago

Best alternative for WhatsApp would be Signal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I don't know if such a long list fits into Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

….iMessage MUHAHAHAHAHA