MRmrinfinitiesx·Sep 7, 2024
https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle - A huge list.
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degoogle
A huge list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links.
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A huge list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links.
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For E-Mail there are plenty of hosted alternatives. Fastmail is usually what I recommend, but there are others: https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle?tab=readme-ov-file#gmail-...
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19 sourcesMeanwhile as I browse the web in firefox... I suggest addons from: https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle
In North Korean hackers exploited Chrome zero-day to steal cryptoI removed the finger-printing from my browser with degoogle: https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle - Alternatives to google/other big platforms. Firefox addons at the top.
I scream this and my love for Linux from the rooftops, hoping other people show the love for the internet and things like I do and don't put up with the exploitation. It's _OUR_ psychyes and their psychological manipulation, and our future generations they're going after.
And you can check your fingerprints with: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ that has a adtrack company that openly shows how it fingerprints you, with WebGL, canvas'ing, timestamps.
I have the random timestamp addon, random user-agents, canvas blocker, exfil data, Ublock origin. The 0.0.0.0 day 'Port Scanner' -> https://github.com/garywill/LAN-port-scan-forbidder
Yeah, they can use JS to ping stuff on our
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LANs to fingerprint too.
It's an internet hellscape out there.
Most people don't care. I do.
Huge list here (not mine): https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle
In Ask HN: Alternatives to Googlehttps://github.com/tycrek/degoogle
A good read. It's fun exploring and tinkering with all the softwares out there.
In Google is killing one of Chrome's biggest ad blockersExperienced people know better, newcomers get burned and end up learning through experience or knowledge transfer from others. If you’re investing your time or resources into using a new Google product at this point, that’s on you.
To help others you know DeGoogle their life is a public service.
https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle
In The end of Google Podcasts is in June if you're not in the USFor E-Mail there are plenty of hosted alternatives. Fastmail is usually what I recommend, but there are others: https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle?tab=readme-ov-file#gmail-...
In Ask HN: Degoogling in 2024Try this github repo: https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle, there is a Youtube section there.
In Ask HN: YouTube's website search isn't useful anymore, is there an alternative?Some GitHub compilations that might be of use to you;
https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy
https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle
In Ask HN: Viable Alternatives to GsuiteGet off Google so you dont have to deal with zero customer service:
https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle
In Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codesThis seems like a good starting point: https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle
In Tell HN: Doing a chargeback against Google will get your account bannedFor google stuff
https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle
Not specifically google but tries go from "do know evil" back to "do no evil"
https://www.privacytools.io/
In Ask HN: How to Move on from Google?You say that you don't store any information to ensure privacy but this is essentially asking users to trust you. Why not build trust into the technology from the outset? Or have I missed something and that is what you've done? Barring that, what actions do you intend to take to ensure data is kept private (external audit, etc)?
You also say this is open source. I didn't look all that hard but could you provide a link to the associated repositories and mention what license it's under? Also, when you say "open source", do you mean the code only or are you providing data to the community as well?
Also, I'm not sure the claim "world's first open source engine platform" is really accurate. I don't claim to have any big insight into what the various "tiers" of search engine there are (code, data, aggregation?) but I see at least one list that
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looks to have many FOSS alternatives to Google search [0].
Could you go into what's novel about You.com compared to other FOSS alternatives?
[0] https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle#web-based-products
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