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Re: Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google

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Post by h4waii »

carlosgj94 wrote: post #2

For me the biggest problem is Youtube. The other solutions are not in the same level of quality/quantity. DuckDuckGo feels way better as a product to me (using sometimes the bang to use google in privacy mode). And ProtonMail is good enough.

If it's any help, NewPipe [0] is a FOSS YouTube client for Android which doesn't require an account, doesn't require Google Play Services, and doesn't (!) display ads.

Yes, it has subscription support and you can import/export that list to keep it backed up.

It also has a TON of features, like PiP, background play (for video and audio), downloading, and much, much more.

Ivory [1] might be the closest iOS equivalent, and Motionbox [2] and FreeTube [3] the closest desktop equivalents.

[0]. https://newpipe.schabi.org/

[1]. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-video-player/id129434748...

[2]. http://omega.gg/MotionBox/

[3]. https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube

Re: Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google

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Post by magashna »

h4waii wrote: post #3
carlosgj94 wrote: post #2

For me the biggest problem is Youtube. The other solutions are not in the same level of quality/quantity. DuckDuckGo feels way better as a product to me (using sometimes the bang to use google in privacy mode). And ProtonMail is good enough.

If it's any help, NewPipe [0] is a FOSS YouTube client for Android which doesn't require an account, doesn't require Google Play Services, and doesn't (!) display ads. Yes, it has subscription support and you can import/export that list to keep it backed up. It also has a TON of features, like PiP, background play (for video and audio), downloading, and much, much more. Ivory [1] might be the closest iOS equivalent,…

The downloading feature and background play is what makes it for me. Occasionally Youtube makes a change that breaks it but the devs have been pretty good about updates

Re: Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google

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Post by newscracker »

Looks like a mix of alternatives picked from some site and collated here without verification.

Some may not exist/work — checked some random links and found privateemail throwing an error on registration and bravos having some statement about working on something new, with the old one unavailable.

I’m also not sure if Discord, Slack, etc., really count as private alternatives (well, there are people who diss Telegram on privacy).

Re: Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google

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Post by LinuxBender »

For chat, consider setting up your own Murmur server [1] and use Mumble to do voice and text chat. It is not has happy-clicky as Discord, but the sound quality is great and you can have thousands of people on a tiny VM. It is very easy to deploy. It looks like people have created ansible playbooks for this too. [2]

[1] - https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page

[2] - https://github.com/systemli/ansible-role-mumble

P.S. use their 1.3 RC version. It is very stable and much better than 1.2.

Re: Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google

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Post by opticbit »

https://alternativeto.net/ not all results will be privacy focused.

some other alternatives

Browser waterfox and other forks

search yacy

email self hosted various vps serves

sheets/docs own/next cloud. libre/open office

video hooktube invidius

adwords a-ads

dns opennic

drive sia ipfs storj...

hangouts keybase bitmessage tox

images pixeldrain(sia)

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