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Alternatives for WhatsApp and Google Search that won't sell your information?
3 0 ReplySignal and DuckDuckGo
14 0 ReplyInstalling Signal is the easy part. Convincing your friends to do the same is the impossible part.
16 1 ReplyI was surprised by how many of my friends were using both when I first installed it. Just try it out.
6 1 ReplyI already did and managed to get two friends to use it too but they only use it to talk to me
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DuckDuckGo does sell your information, doesn't it? I thoughts that was their business model.
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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)
5 0 ReplySignal an Duckduckgo or Startpage
4 0 ReplyBest alternative for WhatsApp would be Signal
3 0 ReplySignal 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.
3 0 ReplyMetaGer 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:
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:
3 0 Reply….iMessage MUHAHAHAHAHA
2 1 ReplyI don't know if such a long list fits into Lemmy.
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