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Leaving Google? Here's some alternatives!

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I asked for alternatives a while ago, and the nice techies on SH were kind enough to get me a list of more secure programs and websites to try. I figure I'm not the only one with questions,  so I brought that list here. If you have any other suggestions, please list them!

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Browsers


Firefox Based

LibreWolf - Privacy focused and pretty good.

Mulvad Browser - Intended to make traffic from every Mulvad Browser look the same (add-ons / extensions cannot be installed)

Zen - Seems to be very popular.

Waterfox - Pretty similar to Firefox but without all the Mozilla baggage.

Floorp - Another fairly popular Firefox alternative.


Chromium Based

Brave - Built in ad blocker and some good privacy features.

Ungoogled Chromium - What it sounds like.


Other

Ladybird - In development, brand new browser and web rendering engine, keep an eye out for it.

Original note: "You might want to take a look at 'Privacy Tests', though I believe their tests are done with default settings and perhaps some of the browsers could score much better with some simple settings changes."


Search Engines

Brave Search

DuckDuckGo

Ecosia

Mojeek

Presearch

Qwant

Searx

SearxNG

Startpage

Marginalia 


SMS Text App

Fossify

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I daily waterfox, love it

Can you blog your OP? I'd like to mark it as a favorite and refer back  

@Cranky Old Witch as in put this info in a blog post, put a link to the original SH topic in a blog post, or both?

Just want to make sure I do the right thing. 😅

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@Erah Mar well, I say copy/paste your OP above into a blog post. Gods know if you do a SH link if that site will stick around 😕

@Cranky Old Witch very true... =/

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Regarding privacy tests and some browsers potentially scoring better, in my experience 90% of the time changing the setting doesn't ACTUALLY stop them from taking the data anyways. It just visually changes if the box is checked or not lol

I told firefox to NOT scan for malicious domains/don't scan my domains at all and in the about:config it was still sending all the domains/links I access to google's ""malicious content scanning"" servers 7 ways to sunday. It was very difficult to even stop that from happening. It took days of manually reading 10's of thousands of lines because they rename it a bunch of different things but it all does the same thing... Steals your data and spies on you... 😩

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