Last updated on 28 May 2022
Can we do without the services offered by the giant Google? The Mountain View giant has developed high-quality tools and services. Reliable and free for the most part, they invade our digital daily life. We know the opposite side. Lack of confidentiality and data collection.
There are a few parades. There are also sites and services that offer real alternatives to the services offered by Google. Here are six. Six tools to replace the most well-known Google services.
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DuckDuck Go to replace Google search engine
DuckDuck Go is a meta search engine that will draw its results in the indexes of the major players in the sector to offer particularly complete results. The big difference is the privacy settings. The platform announces the colour on its homepage’ The search engine that does not spy on you ‘. Duckduck Go's naughty little duck blocks ad trackers and keeps your search history private.
Link: Duckduck Go
Proton to replace Gmail
Secure messaging located in Switzerland is a real alternative to Gmail if you prefer the security of your email exchanges. Open Source, Proton ensures that tYour emails are automatically secured with end-to-end encryption. This means that the platform itself cannot decrypt or read your emails. Pleasant and very ergonomic interface. No personal information is required to create your secure email account. Your privacy prevails. Proton also offers iOS or Android mobile versions for your . smartphone or tablet
Link: Proton
Opera to replace the Chrome browser
Google's native browser is arguably one of the best browsers on the market. It's not easy to supplant. Of course, there is Firefox, but it is also worth taking a look at Opera. It is a free, cross-platform web browser developed by the Norwegian company Opera Software, which does not lack qualities. Known for being a racing beast, the Opera browser offers a built-in VPN to preserve your anonymity. It also offers an ad blocker to speed up your browsing.
Link: Opera
Framapad to replace Google Docs
Framasoft's solutions alone deserve a full-fledged article this community of irreducible supporters of freedom has been striving for years to ‘de-freeze’ the internet. Framapad is their response to Google Docs. Framapad is an online collaborative writing service based on Etherpad software. His real plus? Collaborative editing: the contributions of each user appear immediately in the pads of all participants, indicated by a colour code.
Link: Framapad
OwnCloud to replace Google Drive
OwnCloud has made its mark as a free alternative to services like Google Drive or Dropbox. The service allows you to create a personal cloud over which you keep control from A to Z. It incorporates a file manager function but also offers a series of very practical applications: calendar, image manager, contact manager, etc. … It is also possible to work together on a document hosted on the server. Practical, Owncloud is also accessible from a smartphone or tablet on Android or IOS thanks to a dedicated application.
Link: OwnCloud
OpenStreetMap to replace Google Maps
Here is a service that draws on its large community of users across the world to try to build a free mapping solution available to all. OpenStreetMap It is a kind of Wikipedia of cartography. It is a community that participates in the enrichment of the mapping service that is freely licensed to it. Available on the web, but also on a smartphone, you can use it in a personal or professional setting. The French government supports the project by sharing its own files in Open Data.
Link: OpenStreetMap
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Hello,
I would have thought of finding Cozy Cloud in this article on alternatives to GAFA.
Cdlt
Frederic
Hello,
I read that Duckduck Go is liaising with Amazon … Not about them being ‘clean’ and respectful of our data. Alternatively there are Swiss Cow and Qwant as well.
Thank you for this article and share your good plans!! Your newsletter is really valuable!
Good recovery
Hello,
There is also agorakit to replace google groups …
Hello Fidel,
Great ticket idea – no need to pester the GAFAM oligopoly if nothing else is promoted.
+1 for Framapad. Used it. Good: easy, simple.
Opera web browser VPN really doesn't look great from Tom's Hadrware's perspective https://www.tomsguide.com/us/opera-vpn,review-4496.html (although the Chinese divestment of the browser, released from Opera Software, has reassured privacy in this VPN).
Otherwise, I too would have expected to see CozyCloud here.
And Yandex, as a search engine?
Search, standby and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) specialists are constantly recommending and using its Images tab.
Qwant no more is apparently no longer clean, in addition to no longer performing well. In the end, is there a really clean search engine? (I read the answers).
If we can, let us not forget to pay the independent firefox etc. (even 5 euros per month!) it is as important as humanitarian associations or independent journalists. It is the hallmark and guarantee of our IT independence