Google. Use Searxng for search, Firefox/Librewolf for browser, Newpipe for Youtube, Graphene instead of default Android, literally anything for calendar and notes, and FDroid for apps. Don’t let Google’s services destroy your privacy.
As much as Google results have decreased in quality over the past years, it is still miles ahead of Bing. Bing rarely even understands the context of what I’m searching about.
I also have been trying to convince people to try Kagi. It is so much better than google results, has no ads, and is very pro-privacy.
Only downside is that you have to pay for it, but honestly it’s worth it to me for how much better it is, and no ads or psychology against me is a big bonus
Ha I actually pay $25/m for unlimited searches, even though I only use like 6-800 on average with lots of dev & debugging searches. But I also pay for email with Fastmail ($50/yr) instead of a free service, so I’m probably the weird one.
I just prefer the model of paying for services entirely & being a customer of the business, instead of having my data harvested and used to manipulate me for profit (by also making the service worse). But lots of people aren’t willing to make that trade-off, which is fine too 🤷♀️
Yup. To add more: Brave for searching because it has it’s own crawler. OrganicMaps and OSM for maps. Joplin for notes. AsteroidOS for WearOS. NextCloud for Drive (including some auto-syncing/back-up stuff like mobile contacts). Proton or Tutanota for mail.
Google. Use Searxng for search, Firefox/Librewolf for browser, Newpipe for Youtube, Graphene instead of default Android, literally anything for calendar and notes, and FDroid for apps. Don’t let Google’s services destroy your privacy.
Seconded for SearXNG and Librewolf. Way better than the alternatives in speed and privacy.
❤️ Google -> Brave search. Stock Android -> LineageOS (CalyxOS, DivestOS, GrapheneOS). Chrome😬 -> Mull (LibreWolf). Google notes -> Joplin.
Bings actually pretty good now and less bloated than Google.
As much as Google results have decreased in quality over the past years, it is still miles ahead of Bing. Bing rarely even understands the context of what I’m searching about.
I also have been trying to convince people to try Kagi. It is so much better than google results, has no ads, and is very pro-privacy.
Only downside is that you have to pay for it, but honestly it’s worth it to me for how much better it is, and no ads or psychology against me is a big bonus
You’ve already lost 99% of people’s interest, including mine. No one wants to play $5 a month for a limited number of searches
Ha I actually pay $25/m for unlimited searches, even though I only use like 6-800 on average with lots of dev & debugging searches. But I also pay for email with Fastmail ($50/yr) instead of a free service, so I’m probably the weird one.
I just prefer the model of paying for services entirely & being a customer of the business, instead of having my data harvested and used to manipulate me for profit (by also making the service worse). But lots of people aren’t willing to make that trade-off, which is fine too 🤷♀️
Brave runs on chromium. Better to use DDG.
Yup. To add more: Brave for searching because it has it’s own crawler. OrganicMaps and OSM for maps. Joplin for notes. AsteroidOS for WearOS. NextCloud for Drive (including some auto-syncing/back-up stuff like mobile contacts). Proton or Tutanota for mail.