Privacy-friendly search engines, the Fediverse, Mastodon and encrypted messengers.
Mastodon and the other Fediverse networks have no algorithm pushing posts at you: you see the accounts you follow, in order. The search engines and messengers listed here collect little or no data about you.
Signal is a free messenger for texts, voice and video calls, groups and file sharing, with end-to-end encryption for everything by default, run by a non-profit foundation. It is an alternative to…
Alternative to WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and other messengers owned by advertising groups
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Framasoft is a French non-profit association, based in Lyon, that promotes free software and runs free online services as alternatives to those of big tech: Framadate for polls, Framaforms for forms…
Alternative to Google Forms, Doodle and the other free services of big tech that live from your data
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Mastodon is open-source software for a decentralised social network: thousands of independent servers, run by associations, universities, media, public bodies or individuals, connect with each other…
Alternative to X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram and the other advertising-funded social networks
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Ecosia is a Berlin search engine that spends all its profits on climate action, mainly tree planting and renewable energy, and has been legally barred from being sold since it became steward-owned in…
Alternative to Google Search, whose ad profits go to shareholders
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PeerTube is free, open-source software for sharing videos, developed by the French non-profit Framasoft, on which anyone can run a video platform that connects with the others, so there is no single…
Alternative to YouTube and its ads, recommendation algorithm and single owner
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Mojeek is a British search engine with its own crawler and its own index of more than 9 billion pages, so its results don’t come from Google or Bing, and it follows a strict no-tracking policy.
Alternative to Google and Bing, and to search engines that resell their results
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Olvid is a French end-to-end encrypted messenger that needs no personal data at all, no phone number, e-mail or name, and never asks for the address book; contacts are added directly, person to…
Alternative to WhatsApp and messengers that upload your address book
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Qwant is a French search engine that says it keeps no search history and shows ads without profiling users, and that is building a European search index with Ecosia; Qwant Junior is a version for…
Alternative to Google Search and its tracking of what you search
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Threema is a Swiss end-to-end encrypted messenger that can be used without a phone number or e-mail address, for a one-time price, with open-source apps and servers in Switzerland.
Alternative to WhatsApp and messengers that require a phone number
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Startpage is a Dutch search engine that sends your query to Google and shows Google’s results without passing on your IP address or other identifying data, with an “Anonymous View” proxy to open…
Alternative to searching Google directly and being tracked by it
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Searching and talking without being watched
Telecoms: mobile, internet and email
Digital services, software and devices
News, media and knowledge
Children, family and toys
