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→Alternatives to Google Products and Services
The fact that it is hard for most people to escape Google’s grasp itself is worrying. Hence, this page is used to gather alternatives to Google products and services which respect user privacy.
It is though dangerous to think in terms of "alternatives", like the goal was to reach equivalence to what Google offers (and risk to always like behind). In reality what we want is *better* services than the ones of Google, because they would rest on *better* principles, such as decentralization/distribution of services, end-to-end encryption, uncompromising free/libre software, etc.
While presenting these "alternatives" or "replacements" here, we must keep in mind that the true goal is to achieve proper distribution/decentralization of information and communication, and empower people to understand and control where their information goes.
== Existing Resources and Guides ==
A more generic guide about privacy and tools: https://www.privacytools.io/
==Search Engines==
https://www.metager.de ()
==Email Providers==
[https://replicant.us Replicant] — AndroidOS without all the proprietary crap. Means it works only on some rather ancient devices and that some drivers are missing (GPU, Wifi, Bluetooth, etc.). Interesting project to help demonstrate how much Android relies on proprietary software to function, to debunk Google's myth that "Android is Free/libre software"
==Maps and Navigation==
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.
==Docs and Sheets==
Google also connects data generated from the google browser with other personal data it has gathered with other google services.
===Helpful Browser-Plugins for Firefox===
Yet, Firefox is *far* from being perfect: Firefox without extensions is as vulnerable to data-harvesting as any other browser. Management of cookies is really cumbersome, and they are accepted by default. Also by default are accepted ads, cross-site scripting and all these features of "modern" web that makes tracking easy. + Mozilla boasts about defending people's privacy when in reality they didn't do much to change anything about this (Isn't Google even still their default search engine, after years of collecting their money?), as for their implicit acceptance of DRM in HTML5...
==Translation==
==Google earth==
-Googleearth is a closed source software
-Googleearth collects data abount what people search and combines this information with the general personal-data-database
==Social Network==
Google+ is a social network by google. It is a competitor to facebook or Linkedin. All of these services make money of personal user data.
-'''Diaspora''' A decentralized social network. Open Source. Works perfectly. Campatible to Friendica. Find servers you can sign on:
