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Created this infographic with help/suggestions from the folks at /privacy. There's a PDF download with clickable links here.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What about Magic Earth as a maps replacement?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks! Someone else suggested that to me as well. It's hard when I have only 3-4 spots per category. If I don't use this to replace one of the others, I can at least add it to the links page.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I looked at Here we go, and there were a lot of complaints about the navigation giving illegal instructions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you! I might just replace it with Magic Earth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That's what I've been using and it works great, though I'd prefer to use something FOSS. But everyone just always seems to vouch for Magic Earth and I guess vetted their privacy policy pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Wouldn’t recommend zoho either, from India a country which heavily exploited user privacy and is in talks to ban proton mail

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why does this suggest that Organic Maps cost money? https://organicmaps.app/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Whoops! I'll fix it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

That's rather bizarre to have Zoho there for documents but not for email.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Qwant search

Interesting! Is it totally free? Looks like it. If it's free and good and not problematic, maybe I'll use it to replace Kagi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unfortunately Qwant is free. I really want to pay a one-off fee to remove ads but that's not an option. It's also less feature-rich than Kagi (can't hide certain domains from search, for example). Also, it blocks me from using it whenever I set my VPN to singapore because they haven't set up ads there yet.

What makes Qwant noteworthy is that it uses it's own web-crawler. And unlike Mojeek this web-crawler is half-way decent, although it is weirdly common for pornography to come up. Most other search engines are based on either Google or Bing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks for the info! That's interesting, I'm also happy to pay for ad-free. I'll test it out in any case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm curious, does anyone here still uses Google? It seems like this community largely moved away from those services some time ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I figured I was preaching to the choir here! But if you feel the info would help others who are not here, please do share.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

The fuck is Here WeGo? Is it open source

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good to see Nextcloud mentioned, it kills many birds with one stone

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yes, that was recommended by someone in /Privacy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Kagi is problematic since it funds Russia through yandex. Also, organic maps is completely free.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Does Kagi actually pay Yandex for searches? Grrr.

This infographic is for less-techie people (say, me...or even more, my mom). If I get rid of everything I've been told is problematic so far (Proton, Kagi, Zoho, in addition to some I actually did end up removing already), there won't be any doable solutions left for my intended audience. (My mom doesn't know or care if something is open source, or what an instance is or how to join one for a search engine, etc. But if she can get away from Google, I feel that's a step in the right direction.)

Maybe I should add an asterisk to the infographic key for anything that's problematic. Then on the links page I can describe the situation with each one, and let readers decide.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I'll fix OM!