Big tech companies, for better or worse, have shaped today's internet culture. We are talking about veterans like Amazon, Microsoft or Google, as well as players with a little less history. Specifically Facebook with its social network perfectly designed to meet our tastes and interests, to make them the perfect bait to capture advertisers' money.
In short, our personal information (whether voluntarily added by likes on Facebook or collected by cookies apps and browser) is more valuable than we think, currently being the bargaining chip for free services such as having an email, contacting friends or publishing our ideas on platforms full of other similar users.
Let's put Facebook aside and go to an interesting question about something more crucial in our lives online:
Is it possible to live on the internet without depending on the biggest player: Google?
It offers us the largest search center in the world, a suite room office automation in the cloud and dozens of other services. Fortunately there are alternatives and in an initiative called No More Google they collect them.
Of course, the goal is to find replacements that do respect privacy.
- Google Chrome has alternatives in Opera, Ungoogled Chromium, Brave, and a handful of other browsers
- Google the search engine has a reliable replacement at Duck Duck Go.
- Google Docs has Zoho Docs and Bear Writer, among others.
- Google Flights? Try Skyscanner
- Images via Google Search have another option in free banks such as Pexels and Unsplash.
You can find hundreds of lists, alternatives and services on the No More Google site
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