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<blockquote data-quote="Waqqle" data-source="post: 1083266" data-attributes="member: 14414">Search Engines: <a href="https://duckduckgo.com" target="_blank">DuckDuckGo</a> and <a href="https://www.qwant.com" target="_blank">Qwant</a>.&nbsp; You can use a VPN on top of these and DuckDuckGo has an extension for Safari (and maybe Google Chrome?) as well.&nbsp; Unfortunately, no matter which search engine you use, even if they don't track or record you, it looks like Google is the one indexing everything because you will always have your search results deliberately altered when you, say,... image search for something like &quot;american inventors,&quot; &quot;european people history,&quot; &quot;european people art,&quot; or &quot;white man white woman.&quot; Go ahead, try it.&nbsp; I'm a miscegenator so I don't mind the images but even I find it creepy that faceless corporations thousands of miles away get to secretly decide what I see.&nbsp; This also happens with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MECcIJW67-M" target="_blank">things like Alexa</a>.Email Services: <a href="https://protonmail.com" target="_blank">Protonmail</a> and <a href="https://tutanota.com" target="_blank">Tutanota</a>.&nbsp; They are both good but I prefer Protonmail myself because it is based in Switzerland whereas Tutanota is based in Germany.&nbsp; All companies are subject to the laws of the country in which they reside and I view Switzerland as a safer bet.&nbsp; I've heard that <a href="https://mail.yandex.com" target="_blank">Yandex</a> is good as well if you want a casual alternative to Gmail.&nbsp; Yandex is a Russian company and they also have a search engine.Web Browsers: You can also look into &quot;secure internet/web browsers&quot; if you do not want to use any of the major ones.&nbsp; As with email services, I recommend checking which legal jurisdiction the company resides in as that country may still force certain things upon them such as forcing them to disclose IP addresses of users in the interests of ferreting out &quot;hate speakers&quot; or something Orwellian like that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Waqqle, post: 1083266, member: 14414"] [b]Search Engines:[/b] [url=https://duckduckgo.com]DuckDuckGo[/url] and [url=https://www.qwant.com]Qwant[/url]. You can use a VPN on top of these and DuckDuckGo has an extension for Safari (and maybe Google Chrome?) as well. Unfortunately, no matter which search engine you use, even if they don't track or record you, it looks like Google is the one indexing everything because you will always have your search results deliberately altered when you, say,... image search for something like [b]"american inventors,"[/b] [b]"european people history,"[/b] [b]"european people art,"[/b] or [b]"white man white woman."[/b] Go ahead, try it. I'm a miscegenator so I don't mind the images but even I find it creepy that faceless corporations thousands of miles away get to secretly decide what I see. This also happens with [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MECcIJW67-M]things like Alexa[/url]. [b]Email Services:[/b] [url=https://protonmail.com]Protonmail[/url] and [url=https://tutanota.com]Tutanota[/url]. They are both good but I prefer Protonmail myself because it is based in Switzerland whereas Tutanota is based in Germany. All companies are subject to the laws of the country in which they reside and I view Switzerland as a safer bet. I've heard that [url=https://mail.yandex.com]Yandex[/url] is good as well if you want a casual alternative to Gmail. Yandex is a Russian company and they also have a search engine. [b]Web Browsers:[/b] You can also look into "secure internet/web browsers" if you do not want to use any of the major ones. As with email services, I recommend checking which legal jurisdiction the company resides in as that country may still force certain things upon them such as forcing them to disclose IP addresses of users in the interests of ferreting out "hate speakers" or something Orwellian like that. [/QUOTE]

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