De-Googling ourselves - Alternatives to Chrome, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.

[Byron]

I want to bring this video by Black Pigeon Speaks to everyone's attention, and if you don't want to watch the whole thing, here's the gist (and some items that I want to mention that weren't in the video) 

He speaks about excellent alternatives to Google services - I am already using all of them and can attest to the fact that they indeed work really well: 

1) Brave Broswer - clean, minimalist look, so far I love it. https://www.brave.com/ 

2) A search engine that works pretty well  https://www.qwant.com/ 

3) Email server: https://mail.protonmail.com/login - the provider promises encryption and the layout is familiar and takes no time getting used to. The phone app for iOS is also very crisp and simple. The only limitation is that you don't get storage (something I personally don't care about at all. 500 MBs is more than I need) 

4) Vid.me  - a reasonable alternative to YouTube (this one - understandably - is lacking in features when compared to the BEHEMOTH that is YouTube. But hey, they're not fucking fascists. That alone sells it to me). 

5) Minds.com - good facebook alternative 

6) Gab.ai - alternative to twitter - but Apple and GooglePlay stores both refuse to shelf it. The browser version works just fine though and personally I prefer the layout to Twitter's. 

7) Finally, we have an unofficial discord channel (not endorsed by Stef/Michael - not yet anyway) that has really taken off - forum people: please come by and say hi, we have wonderful conversations going on most every day in text/voice https://discord.gg/9QujQ2k 

 

There's also a program called CyberGhost 6 which hides your IP over wi-fi connections. It doesn't seem to work with brave browser, but works with Chrome. 

If anyone figures out how to make it work with Brave (or has another suggestion) please let me know. 

 

 

[LWGII]

Ahh.  The dreaded Goolag Algo-pelago....

[Grand]

Uh. Just felt I should point out that Facebook isn't owned by google. Facebook actually hates google. Like. A lot. While certainly, I would be exceptionally careful about putting your information through Facebook, it simply won't affect your goal to de-googlefy yourself.

[luxfelix]