Google & Co Ejector
Is closed source, centralized software still part of your digital life? Eject now and start using free open-source software (FOSS). This is a small curated collection of awesome FOSS, capable of replacing many popular, centralized, privacy invading online services so you can sleep better at night.
Awesome FOSS
Alternatives to privacy invading data kraken services.
Google Search:
- SearX (Code) - Privacy-respecting metasearch engine, self-hostable
- IPFS Search (Code) - A search engine running on IPFS
Perplexity:
- Perplexica - Open source answer engine
- MindSearch - Open source answer engine
- Morphic - Open source answer engine
WhatsApp / Telegram / Signal:
Google Docs:
Google Drive / Dropbox:
Google Calendar / Contacts:
Facebook / Twitter:
- Mastodon (Code) - federated, self-hostable
- Scuttlebutt (Code) - decentralized, self-hostable
YouTube:
Spotify:
HTTP(S):
Github / Gitlab / Bitbucket:
Glossary
End-to-end encrypted means your data is en- & decrypted only on your machine, resulting in maximum security with maximum responsibility (password loss equals data loss).
Self-hostable means anyone can run the software by themselves and thus maintain control of their data independently of any central authority.
Decentralized means the software does not need to communicate over the internet with a central server in order to work, instead it is capable of communicating independently via peer-to-peer based networking (very useful when dealing with limited internet availability or censoring governments).
Federated means instances of the software build a so called "fediverse" allowing users to communicate across instances.