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De-Google Your Life - Part 1
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Browsers:
Firefox https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
Tor Browser https://www.torproject.org/download/
Mullvad https://mullvad.net/en/browser
Brave https://brave.com/
Arc https://arc.net/
Ungoogled Chromium: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
- Ungoogled Chromium Web Store: https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store
DuckDuckGo https://duckduckgo.com/app
Floorp https://floorp.app/
LibreWolf https://librewolf.net/
Opera https://www.opera.com/
Vivaldi https://vivaldi.com/
Search:
Startpage https://www.startpage.com/
Ecosia https://www.ecosia.org/
DuckDuckGo https://start.duckduckgo.com/
Brave Search https://search.brave.com/
Kagi https://kagi.com/
Mojeek https://www.mojeek.com/
Qwant https://www.qwant.com/
SearXNG https://github.com/searxng/searxng
Email:
Proton Mail: https://proton.me/mail
Tuta: https://tuta.com/
Fastmail: https://www.fastmail.com/
Hey: https://www.hey.com/
Hushmail: https://www.hushmail.com/
Other Proton Services: https://proton.me/
Photos:
ente: https://ente.io/
Stingle: https://stingle.org/
PhotoSync: https://www.photosync-app.com/
Immich: https://immich.app/
Tailscale: https://tailscale.com/
DNS:
NextDNS https://nextdns.io/
Quad9: https://quad9.net/
Cloudflare: https://one.one.one.one/
AdGuard: https://adguard-dns.io/
Control D: https://controld.com/
Mullvad DNS: https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls
OpenDNS: https://www.opendns.com/
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:09 Browsers
2:13 Browsers - Chromium-based alternatives
4:22 Browsers - How to switch
5:07 Search
6:34 Search - Premium options
8:17 Search - How to switch
8:55 Email
11:16 Photo backup
12:51 Photo backup - Self-hosted options
13:47 DNS
15:30 DNS - How to switch
17:58 To be continued...
I think there was some ethical drama in his company a while ago, which might have been recently answered 🤷♂️
I personally didn’t like the very few videos I saw of him, it looked like g@mer consumerist obsessions. The latest I saw was about the last Fairphone release and he was very critical about what I’d call very reasonable design choices, like capping the screen to 60Hz instead of max 90 by default, or having to turn the phone off to swap SD card. This video felt like it was not an honest criticism or intended to a very niche audience (eg. hot swapping SD cards might be critical in the eyes of someone producing video content).
I just watched the fair phone review, I don’t think it was a terrible review. Some parts I disagreed with, but I think the presenter was fairly upfront with their biases
I think mention of small things like needing to take the battery out to swap the cards, was just a comment on the design philosophy rather than a deal-breaker. Plus for YouTube video they need content find things to both promote and detract
I did like how they indicated the SOC has 15 years of support from Qualcomm, I honestly didn’t know it was that long That’s amazing
Certainly if you don’t like the review no need to watch the channel, I just don’t understand how that translates into hate
It’s not like I hate it but it felt like a review target for a specific audience and with little journalistic work. I was a bit disappointed because he is often refered to be one of the most serious and unbiaised tech reviewers on the internet.
But yeah, that was a first impression indeed.