DeGoogle Yourself
A community for those that would like to get away from Google.
Here you may post anything related to DeGoogling, why we should do it or good software alternatives!
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That's rather bizarre to have Zoho there for documents but not for email.
Needs Qwant search.
Qwant search
Interesting! Is it totally free? Looks like it. If it's free and good and not problematic, maybe I'll use it to replace Kagi.
Unfortunately Qwant is free. I really want to pay a one-off fee to remove ads but that's not an option. It's also less feature-rich than Kagi (can't hide certain domains from search, for example). Also, it blocks me from using it whenever I set my VPN to singapore because they haven't set up ads there yet.
What makes Qwant noteworthy is that it uses it's own web-crawler. And unlike Mojeek this web-crawler is half-way decent, although it is weirdly common for pornography to come up. Most other search engines are based on either Google or Bing.
Thanks for the info! That's interesting, I'm also happy to pay for ad-free. I'll test it out in any case.
Wouldn’t recommend zoho either, from India a country which heavily exploited user privacy and is in talks to ban proton mail
Kagi is problematic since it funds Russia through yandex. Also, organic maps is completely free.
Does Kagi actually pay Yandex for searches? Grrr.
This infographic is for less-techie people (say, me...or even more, my mom). If I get rid of everything I've been told is problematic so far (Proton, Kagi, Zoho, in addition to some I actually did end up removing already), there won't be any doable solutions left for my intended audience. (My mom doesn't know or care if something is open source, or what an instance is or how to join one for a search engine, etc. But if she can get away from Google, I feel that's a step in the right direction.)
Maybe I should add an asterisk to the infographic key for anything that's problematic. Then on the links page I can describe the situation with each one, and let readers decide.
I'm curious, does anyone here still uses Google? It seems like this community largely moved away from those services some time ago.
Yeah, I figured I was preaching to the choir here! But if you feel the info would help others who are not here, please do share.