Included a few alternatives including one that we develop (Codename One). Notice that I didn't list the biggest ones: React Native and Xamarin since they are owned by Facebook and Microsoft respectively. I understand those shouldn't be listed from the submission guidelines.
Domain searx.me seams dead.
Change link to the list of running instances retrieved from the official readme of searx.
Link to Github has also changed, swapped the link all tough the old still redirects to the new repository.
Remove nextcloud from mail provider. Nextcloud is not a mail server, no apps(plugin) in the Nextcloud provided such function either. What it's capable of is as a mail client. There are it's own mail client and rainloop for nextcloud. Not a mail server.
* Remove speculative conjecture about CopperheadOS
* Add first party information from Copperhead about CopperheadOS
Thanks @tycrek for the robust list!
For some reason EteSync wasn't listed under contacts (I guess the
category was added after EteSync was already on the list).
EteSync is already under calendar and tasks, this commit adds
EteSync under contacts too.
Contributing is simple enough, just make sure to try and follow these guidelines:
###### Last revised: August 9th, 2021
1. English only for Issues & Pull Requests.
2. Try to fill out as much info as you can. This makes it easier for me to quickly approve changes.
3. No personal opinions on why a service should be removed. Links to articles with details is much more helpful.
4. Try to use the Issue templates if possible, but they are not necessary.
5. Try to limit yourself to ONE alternative per Issue. Pull Requests are OK to have multiple additions.
6. Check to see if the alternative you want added already exists in the guide.
###### Templates revised: August 9th, 2021
If you submitted a change that made it into the guide but don't have your Reddit or GitHub username on the [CONTRIBUTORS.md](https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS.md) list, let me know! Sometimes I forget. Alternatively, if your username is on the list and you do *not* want it there, let me know.
## General rules
## Formatting
1. **English only** for issues & pull requests.
2. **Do not edit `README.md`!** This file is automatically generated.
3. Personal opinions will **not** be considered when adding or removing an alternative. Instead, provide links to articles with details.
4. **Use the templates** when submitting an Issue or Pull Request. Blank Issues/PRs are not allowed.
To keep the guide consistent & clean, try to follow these formatting rules:
## How to submit a change
1. The alternative entry must be **indented with two spaces** before the hyphen.
2. Use `[square brackets](regular brackets)` for links instead of referenced links `[square brackets][1]`
3. Separate the link and the description with **space, hypen, space**.
4. If applicable, add an "eyes" disclaimer. Eyes disclaimers must be in bold. The number and "eyes" are connected with a hyphen.
5. Try to avoid spelling mistakes. If they show up I can always fix them.
### A: I am not familiar with GitHub or Pull Requests
**Sample**
1. Open a [new Issue].
2. Select a template to use. If in doubt, use **Other**.
3. Fill out the information to the best of your ability.
4. When you are finished, click **Submit new issue**.
```markdown
- Google Service
- [Alternative Name](https://example.org) - A brief description of the alternative.
- As with Issues, fill out the template as best you can.
2. For PR's relating to alternatives, please follow the steps above to also create an Issue for discussion. Simple PR's that are unrelated to a specific alternative may not require an Issue. If in doubt, create an **Other** Issue.
## I contributed but I am not in the list (or) I do not want to be in the list anymore
If you submitted a change that made it into the guide but don't have your Reddit or GitHub username in the [CONTRIBUTORS.md] list, open an issue or pull request so I can fix it. Alternatively, if your username is on the list and you do *not* want it there, feel free to request this as well.
- [GitHub Pages](https://degoogle.jmoore.dev) (I am using my personal domain as some firewalls block GitHub)
- [r/Privacy wiki](https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/wiki/de-google) (Manually maintained by me, @tycrek. Message me on Reddit or open an Issue if it is not up-to-date)
- [r/Privacy wiki](https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/wiki/de-google) (automatically updated using GitHub Actions)
## Community mirrors
- [GitLab mirror](https://gitlab.com/SheepKid12/degoogle) from u/SheepKid12
- [Gitea mirror](https://git.xerbo.net/Xerbo/degoogle) from [@Xerbo](https://github.com/Xerbo)
- [BookRefine Publishing](https://bookrefine.com/degoogle/) (thanks @GreyLivesMatter for the updated link)
- [Gitea mirror](https://git.mirkodi.tech/mirk0dex/degoogle) from [@mirk0dex (Gitea)](https://git.mirkodi.tech/mirk0dex)
## Non-english mirrors
- [German/Deutsch](https://github.com/arentro/degoogle_german) from [@arentro](https://github.com/arentro)
- [Turkish/Türk](https://github.com/melikechan/degoogle-turkish) from [@melikechan](https://github.com/melikechan)
- [Italian/Italiano](https://gitea.it/devol/degooglizzazione) from [@devol (Gitea)](https://gitea.it/devol)
It's a shame that Google, with their immense resources, power, and influence, don't see the benefits of helping people secure themselves online. Instead, they force people like us to scour the web for alternatives and convince our friends and family to do the same, while they sell off our data to the highest bidder.
Hopefully this guide can serve as a starting point for those new to privacy, or be a good refresher for the experts.
Good luck and stay safe!
## Stargazers over time
[![Stargazers over time](https://starchart.cc/tycrek/degoogle.svg)](https://starchart.cc/tycrek/degoogle)
If you want to help out with the project, here are some ideas (submit **Issues**&**Pull Requests** on the [GitHub page](https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle)):
- **iOS app alternatives!** I don't have an iOS device to find alternatives with. I would highly appreciate any help with this.
- Clean up/improve the Markdown.
- Provide more information on services with little info or where *help requested!* is shown.
- Suggest new services or provide info for removing existing services.
- Host a mirror or clone the [repo](https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle). If you host a mirror, let me know and I can add it to the mirrors list.
- Anything else relating to any part of this guide, whether it's Google related or not.
When contributing, **please follow the rules outlined in [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)**.
1. Only **privacy/security** focused alternatives will be suggested.
2. Many replacements are based off [this Wikipedia article (List of Google products)][wiki]
3. Products from companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Amazon, etc. will *not* be recommended unless there is a very good reason to. This includes companies/apps/services they own.
4. Controversial services will have a disclaimer attached if needed.
5. [5-eyes, 9-eyes, and 14-eyes][eyes] services will be listed and marked as such. Both the location the company is registered and the server IP are taken into consideration.
| Eyes | Countries |
| :--: | :---------: |
| **5** | Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, USA |
- *Snowden (2016)* - Based on the true story of Edward Snowden, the CIA/NSA/etc whistleblower. Directed by Oliver Stone.
- *Deep Web (2015)* - Documentary (narrated by Keanu Reeves) about Ross Ulbricht aka. Dread Pirate Roberts and the infamous "Silk Road" dark market. Directed by Alex Winter.
- *The Great Hack (2019)* - Documentary about the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Thanks @woutfeys
- *Mr. Robot* - Hacker-drama starring Rami Malek. Producers hired actual hackers as consultants to ensure the show is as accurate as possible; real-world tools used in the show.
- *Silicon Valley* - Satirical tech comedy about a compression startup struggling to take off in Silicon Valley, California.
- *Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism | VPRO Documentary* - [Invidious instance](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw) and [Hooktube](https://hooktube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw)
- Podcasts:
- [Darknet Diaries](https://darknetdiaries.com/) (by Jack Rhysider) - Highlights real-life hackers and their stories. Covers privacy topics a fair bit.
- [The WAN Show](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8mG-RkN2uTw7PhlnAr4pZZz2QubIbujH) (Linus Tech Tips) - Not specifically privacy, but they cover all sorts of tech news.
- [The Privacy, Security, & OSINT Show](https://inteltechniques.com/podcast.html) - "This weekly podcast presents ideas to help you become digitally invisible, stay secure from cyber threats, and make you a better online investigator."
- [Security Now!](https://www.grc.com/SecurityNow.htm) - "TechTV's Leo Laporte and I spend somewhat shy of two hours each week to discuss important issues of personal computer security." (Thanks u/Abaddon182)
- [Surveillance Report](https://surveillancereport.tech/) - "Weekly security and privacy news - Presented by Techlore & The New Oil "
- Other:
- [xkcd](https://xkcd.com/) - They have comics for *everything*.
- System32 Comics [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/system32comics/) and [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/System32Comics/) - Comedic computer comics.
Everything you need to become a privacy wizard. This section has two subsections: The first has links with self-explanatory titles, the second has more detailed descriptions.
#### Subsection 1
- [Android Privacy Guide - Take Control Of Your Data (GitLab)](https://gitlab.com/Attedz/AndroidPrivacyGuide)
- [Everything You Need to Know About Password Managers](https://outline.com/NC69FD)
- [Firefox: Privacy Related "about:config" Tweaks](https://privacyguides.org/browsers/#about_config)
- [Four Methods to Create a Secure Password You'll Actually Remember](https://outline.com/XuMTFA)
- [How to create a strong password (and remember it)](https://outline.com/dqfuqL)
- [How to delete remembered passwords (WikiHow)](http://www.wikihow.com/Delete-Remembered-Passwords)
- [How to disable Telemetry and Data Collection in Windows 10 (Winaero)](https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-telemetry-and-data-collection-in-windows-10/)
- [How to permanently delete a Facebook account (Delete Facebook)](https://deletefacebook.com/).
- [How to permanently delete a Facebook account (WikiHow)](https://www.wikihow.com/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-Account)
- [HTTP vs. HTTPS: What's the Difference and Why Should You Care? (Entrepreneur)](https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/281633)
- [7 Reasons to Use a Third-Party DNS Service](https://outline.com/8jsWXw)
- Use [DNSPerf](https://www.dnsperf.com/#!dns-resolvers) to see which one is fastest for you.
#### Subsection 2
- [AlternativeTo](https://alternativeto.net/) is a free service that helps you find better alternatives to the products you love and hate. Used extensively to build this guide.
- [block-all-google.sh](https://github.com/wesaphzt/block-all-google) is a script for blocking everything Google at the network level. This can and probably will break other alternatives that rely on Google to serve content.
- [Databunker](https://databunker.org/) is a network-based, self-hosted, GDPR compliant, secure database for personal data or PII.
- [ethical.net](https://ethical.net/) is a not-for-profit project building a collaborative, online directory of ethical companies of all kinds.
- [Firefox Profilemaker](https://ffprofile.com/) is a tool to help you create a Firefox profile with the defaults you like.
- [Fix Windows Privacy](https://modzero.github.io/fix-windows-privacy/) is a tool to disable privacy breaches on Windows 10.
- [Framasoft](https://framasoft.org/en/) is a collection of alternative software. Too many to fit elsewhere in the list.
- [Go Incognito](https://techlore.tech/goincognito.html) A guide to security, privacy, and anominity.
- [Go FOSS](https://www.gofoss.today/) is a guide on ditching big-tech, with a focus on seven core areas.
- [Hybrid Analysis](https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/) a free malware analysis service for the community that detects and analyzes unknown threats using a unique Hybrid Analysis technology. Powered by [Falcon Sandbox](https://www.crowdstrike.com/endpoint-security-products/falcon-sandbox-malware-analysis/), which is developed by [CrowdStrike](https://www.crowdstrike.com/).
- [Outline](https://outline.com/) is an awesome tool for getting all the junk out of news articles (I've used it a few times in this guide already). Sometimes it can get around paywalls for "premium" news sites.
- [Plexus](https://plexus.techlore.tech/) Plexus is a website where you can check andriod app compatibility with microg or no google services. It is a crowdsourced project where people test an app's compatibility in those environments and then sumbit it to the database.
- [PRISM Break](https://prism-break.org/en/) is a guide on how to opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora.
- [Privacy Guides](https://privacyguides.org/) provides services, tools and knowledge to protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.
- [retiolus/privacysec](https://github.com/retiolus/privacysec) is a collective guide built off the data of other guides, including this one, whose aim is to be translated into as many languages as possible.
- [r/Privacy wiki](https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/wiki/index) has a lot of useful information. This guide also automatically mirrors itself to the wiki!
- [r/VPN wiki](https://old.reddit.com/r/VPN/wiki/index) to learn more about why you should consider using a VPN.
- [Switching.software](https://switching.software/) is a collection of ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software.
- [VirusTotal](https://www.virustotal.com/) lets you upload files and scans them against multiple antivirus programs at once. Very helpful for checking false negatives. Be aware that Alphabet Inc owns VirusTotal.
- [VPN Toolkit](https://techlore.tech/vpn.html) Community driven tools for VPNs. Includes a VPN finder, chart, and other useful imformation.
- [WindowsSpyBlocker (GitHub)](https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker) is a tool to block spying and tracking on Windows.
Privacy Badger automatically learns to block invisible trackers. Instead of keeping lists of what to block, Privacy Badger learns by watching which domains appear to be tracking you as you browse the Web.
Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site. The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS. Note:EFF is preparing to deprecate the HTTPS Everywhere, check out this [blog post](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/https-actually-everywhere).
Control your cookies! This WebExtension is inspired by Self Destructing Cookies. When a tab closes, any cookies not being used are automatically deleted. Whitelist the ones you trust while deleting the rest. Support for Container Tabs.
Privacy, simplified. Our add-on provides the privacy essentials you need to seamlessly take control of your personal information, no matter where the internet takes you:tracker blocking, smarter encryption, DuckDuckGo private search, and more.
This add-on will remove cookie warnings from almost all websites! You can report any website which still warns you about cookies:make a right click and choose 'Report a cookie warning' from the menu.
MinerBlock is an efficient browser extension that focuses on blocking browser-based cryptocurrency miners all over the web. This extension uses two different approaches to block miners. The first one is based on blocking requests/scripts loaded from a blacklist, this is the traditional approach adopted by most ad-blockers and other mining blockers. The other approach which makes MinerBlock more efficient against cryptojacking is detecting potential mining behavior inside loaded scripts and kills them immediately. This makes the extension able to block inline scripts as well as miners running through proxies. Source code available on [GitHub](https://github.com/xd4rker/MinerBlock).
Block connections to pages and web resources hosted in major cloud services if the user wishes to do so. Supports blocking Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Cloudflare.
CSS Exfil is a method attackers can use to steal data from web pages using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This plugin sanitizes and blocks any CSS rules which may be designed to steal data.
Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you keep parts of your online life separated into color-coded tabs that preserve your privacy. Cookies are separated by container, allowing you to use the web with multiple identities or accounts simultaneously.
This extension prevents Google and Yandex search pages from modifying search result links when you click them. This is useful when copying links but it also helps privacy by preventing the search engines from recording your clicks.
HTTPZ is meant to be unobtrusive and lightweight, it respects your privacy, and is free of trans fats. Additionally, it is very configurable, and should be slightly more secure than some of the alternatives out there, since it has a couple of built-in defenses against SSL-stripping attacks.
Clean URLs that are about to be visited:removes utm_* parameters; on item pages of aliexpress and amazon, removes tracking parameters; skip redirect pages of facebook, steam and reddit
Some web pages use intermediary pages before redirecting to a final page. This add-on tries to extract the final url from the intermediary url and goes there straight away if successful.
Open tabs, websites, and links in automatically managed disposable containers. Containers isolate data websites store (cookies, storage, and more) from each other, enhancing your privacy and security while you browse.
An artware browser add-on to protect privacy in web-search. By issuing randomized queries to common search-engines, TrackMeNot obfuscates your search profile and registers your discontent with surreptitious tracking.
This web extension enables users to choose to opt-out of using Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) and choose to use the standard web instead.
- name:user.js
url:https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js
text:|
This is not an extension, instead it is a Firefox `user.js` config file. This file is a template which aims to provide as much privacy and enhanced security as possible, and to reduce tracking and fingerprinting as much as possible - while minimizing any loss of functionality and breakage (but it will happen).
Blocks websites from using javascript to port scan your computer/network and dynamically blocks all LexisNexis endpoints from running their invasive data collection scripts. [Website](https://www.g666gle.me/Port-Authority/), [Source Code](https://github.com/ACK-J/Port_Authority)