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OpenStreetMap is entirely non-profit and contributive. With it people can (re)appropriate the map and the territory, and invent new uses for it (like disaster recovery in Haïti that abundantly used OSM). Inhabitants of small, isolated places can together get to much better cartography than what is of Google's financial interests. Data from OSM can be reused in each and every possible way, with no licensing conditions subjected to further changes.
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=== Existing Resources and Guides ===
[https://restoreprivacy.com/google-alternatives/ "Alternatives to Google Products – the Complete List"] (2018) - Most exhaustive and accurate [https://switching.social "Switching Social"] (2018) - Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives [https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/list "De-google-ify Internet - List of services"] A list of free/libre alternative services to centralized platforms, hosted by French non-profit Framasoft [https://prism-break.org/en/ "Prism Break" an exhaustive guide] [https://pad.okfnfoebud.org/p/google_alternatives google-alternatives "Alternatives to Google services"collected by Digitalcourage and friends] (20172019+)
[https://www.kuketz-blog.de/das-kranke-www-stop-using-google-web-services/ "Stop using Google Web-Services"] (2017)
Meta-search engine, free/libre software. Just one instance of many: https://search.fuckoffgoogle.net (also https://searx.dk https://search.disroot.org etc.) Full list of instances: https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances
===[https://www.findx.com findx]===
Open source, privacy-focused search run by a non-profit NGO.
===[https://www.mojeek.com Mojeek]===
===[https://www.yahoo.com Yahoo!]===
Privacy-focused search with own spider/crawler, based in the UK.
===[https://www.torproject.org Tor]===
A very safe browser, annonymous, a browser which you can use to browse the dark web.
===[https://search.fuckoffgoogle.de/ Fuck off Google search]===
Results are obtained -via proxy- from Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. to ensure you will not disclose any personal or behavioural data to these companies. These results are "neutral" ie. not influenced by your profile (you are out of the "filter bubble" designed to serve you ads you are more likely to click...).
This service is offered to you by neighbors of Kreuzberg (Berlin) and an international crowd acting together to kick a "Google campus" out of our neighborhood and Google (and its world!) out of our lives. Join us! (Our server takes best effort to respect your privacy: no log is being stored.)
==Email Providers==
===[https://riseup.net/en/email riseup.net]===
Full disk encryption, personally encrypted email storage and many more fantastic features. Donate as you see fit for usage and apply for an account. High quality provider.
===[https://www.thexyz.com thexyz.com]===Accounts come with secure, encrypted cloud storage as well as contacts, calendars, and team collaboration tools. All emails are stored encrypted at rest using AES 256-bit encryption, with double geo-location redundancy.===[https://mailfence.com mailfence.com]===Encrypted email-suite provider with loads of Integrated Features such as Calendar, Encrypted Chat, Groups, Addressbook, and Documents(Drive). Based in Belgium, Brussels with one of the strictest laws regarding privacy standards.===[https://www.servermx.com servermx.com]===Independent email hosting provider located in Italy with Calendar, address book, Dropbox integration. Servermx is focused on privacy and security. It fully adheres to GDPR rules.===[https://yahoo.com]===
==Mobile Operating Systems==
===[https://www.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap]===
It's just so much better than Google Maps! You can edit the map yourself and add roads, houses or stores. Whatever you find relevant. OpenStreetMap is entirely non-profit and contributive. With it people can (re)appropriate the map and the territory, and invent new uses for it (like disaster recovery in Haïti that abundantly used OSM). Inhabitants of small, isolated places can together get to much better cartography than what is of Google's financial interests. Data from OSM can be reused in each and every possible way, with no licensing conditions subjected to further changes.
For comparison to Google Maps: http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/
Integrate OpenStreetMap in your website (Wordpress): https://wordpress.org/plugins/osm/
===[https://www.digital-democracy.org/mapeo/ Mapeo]===
Open source map software. Primarily designed for offline editing for indigenous territory mapping and environmental monitoring in remote environments focusing on p2p data.
===Arguments===
Giving Google a list of all the places you go not only help them profile your income and your habits, but it also enables them to target advertisement to you (according to where you may go) or predict your next moves. These data are invaluable for instance for insurance or transport companies to whom google may sell them. Geolocation data stored in Google servers, could potentially be used to incriminate people (you *were* at this protest, weren't you? You were not sick at home that day? etc.)
==Sync & Share Files with the Cloud==
===[https://etherpad.org Etherpad]===
For collaborative text editing.
===[https://cryptpad.fr/ Cryptpad]===
Zero knowledge collaborative editing.
===[https://mailbox.org/ihr-office/ Mailbox Office]===
'''[https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/ User Agent Switcher]''':
This Addon will fake your browser randomly. So after a few minutes it switches browser and operating system. At least it seams like that for websites you are presently surfing on. This makes it very hard for websites to track you according the information you give them in connection to your browser and your operating system.
===[https://github.com/LeFroid/Viper-Browser Viper]===
There are a lot more browser alternatives than mentioned here so far, for example the Viper browser for which I here add the link. (binary at [https://github.com/LeFroid/Viper-Browser/releases releases]) Though at first glance these browser seem to stay behind in (certain aspects of) functionality, this is outwayed by the flexibility if one can adjust the code on other aspects. If development ceased, it usually can be revived by community efforts. Browsers exist which can substantially mitigate tracking realized by cross-site requests, reducing a lot of bloat (and increasing speed) when accessing the www.
===Arguments===
Hubzilla is a powerful platform for creating interconnected websites featuring a decentralized identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology.<br>
It federates with Mastodon, Diaspora, Gnu Social and friendica.
==Google Analytics==
===[https://matomo.org Matomo (formerly Piwik)]===
License:
* GNU GPLv3
https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/blob/3.x-dev/LICENSE<br>
Requirements:
* PHP
* MySQL/MariaDB
https://matomo.org/docs/requirements/
===[https://github.com/countly/countly-server Countly]===
License:
*AGPL v3 with modified Section 7.
https://github.com/Countly/countly-server/blob/master/LICENSE<br>
Requirements:
* a "linux" server
https://resources.count.ly/v1.0/docs/system-requirements
===[http://www.awstats.org/ awstats]===
License:
* GNU GPL v3+
https://github.com/eldy/awstats
Requirements:
* Your server must log web access in a log file you can read.
* To run awstats, from command line, your operating system must be able to run perl scripts ( .pl files ).
* Perl module "Encode" must be available.
https://github.com/eldy/awstats
