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Discussion on: I dis-agree to all Google's Terms and Policy

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Ondrej

In some cases there are no alternative choices providing the same quality, so I'll not ones, that could be used with minimal lost.

  1. Search -> Startpage. I believe it is basically Google search with proxy & trackers removed. DDG search algos suck if you are searching for something more obscure.

  2. Gmail -> *** Do use GMail. It is the most secure e-mail service that you can get. But, avoid sending sensitive info via e-mail, use Signal instead ***

  3. Android -> iOS, but do not expect that Apple will not track you. Though iOS is nowadays one of the most secure operating system.

5, 6, 7 -> Maybe native (i.e. not cloud-based) alternatives for your OS?

  1. GMaps -> You can use OpenStreetMaps but do not expect same degree of quality / easy integration as in case of GMaps API.

  2. Google+ -> notice - it is deprecated because of related security incident

  3. Chrome -> I would strongly suggest to stay with Chrome. Firefox ESR is not the best choice from security POV (see my other posts regarding this issue).

Brave Browser looks very promising but it does not have very large use base (i.e. it has not been attacked enough to know the real score).

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Ondrej

There is this important thing - Privacy != Security. You can sometimes get a nice secure setup, but your privacy will be exploited for advertisement etc. Sometimes one has to make decision between these two aspects.