Please do share your alternatives if you have them or believe they may be better than these.
I won't say 'better' just different...
Over the last months I've been testing various online services that I find to be among the best alternatives to mainstream services:
1.
DuckDuckGo or
Searx instead of Google, Bing, Yandex, Yahoo and others
2.
Rumble instead YouTube
3.
Lingva Translate instead of Google Translate, Bing translate or Yandex translate etc.
4.
OpenStreeMap instead of Google Maps or Bing Maps
5.
Proton Mail instead of Outlook, Tutanota, GMail and others
Nothing to add:
1. I'm stuck with the Duck.
2. Yup, Rumble has been the most successful. Was just saying the other day Odyssee never seemed to take off. Oh there's Bitchute but it's now overrun by conspiracies about lizard people.
4. None to add: I don't use maps since I never carry my phone out the house unless we have a sales meet (I'm too lazy to jot things down so I just record it, lol).
Worth a look
3. duck.ai Gives you access to 4 LLMs -- reasonable at translating, though not on DeepL level -- and privacy while using them.
5. gmx.com One of the earliest players. They're great. You get 10 aliases, you get pretty good spam blocking (better than gfail -- not a typo), and the mobile app is way better. The WebUI is dated, but clean (except the ads on the login screen). You don't get bombarded with security alerts every time you access your email from another browser either!
Bonus to these is software and addons which is used to access these services as well as other web sites since they affect your privacy as well:
1.
Firefox instead of Chrome, MS Edge and others
2.
uBlock Origin and
Noscript to block ads (I use both)
3.
Cookie Auto Delete to auto delete unwanted cookies
4.
Linux OS instead of Windows or Mac
Nothing to add:
2. Yup, use NoScript, UBO is too much work, lol. If NoScript breaks something, I can run another browser (I have enough).
3. Don't need as I always browse in private/guest/incognito/etc.
Worth a look:
1a. Links, 100% most private browser and it'll save your but if you can't start a graphics session...
Seriously though, Librewolf. Yep it is still around and very polished. UBO preinstalled. (Although I use almost all the browsers).
1b. For mobile, I recommend DuckDuckGo browser (may be an FF fork). It gives you an alias email address without accounts. It have a fake VPN to stop apps communicating with each other. Definitely recommend!
4. Don't forget BSDs. Specifically FreeBSD. And for those afraid of it, there are BSDbuntu's like GhostBSD and NomadBSD, both highly polished with their own goals. If ReactOS is still alive, there's that, too (I think the project is likely dead).
TODO:
Alternatives to social media
1. gab.com
2. minds.com
3. IRC... Yes, it still exists and there are very many hidden place. And sometimes XDCC is faster than torrenting -- totally legal stuff like photo collections and public domain stuff, no anime or ROMS
