



The corporation of Google every year strengthens its influence. Gone are the times when people shared a link to a new search engine with the exotic name google.com in general without advertising, and then invites to Gmail were valued in weight of gold. Now the situation is completely different. Somehow, unnoticed, Google grew up and changed the business model.





Activists of the movement Restore Privacy believe that "the whole business model of Google is based on the fact that you become under their corporate surveillance. That's all. All they do is repackage a massive corporate shadowing into convenient, free, fashionable applications that suck in all your data. Your personal data helps Google to dominate the online advertising market. "





In this model, you are a product.



Delete your Google Account and the collected data .



Avoid Google products, but instead use alternatives.



Use good tools to protect privacy online, including the right browser, extensions for blocking surveillance and good VPN service.





Recently, the resource Restore Privacy published a reference manual, which is devoted to the second point. This is list of alternative services , which you can use instead of Google products.





Here are some of them.







Alternatives to Google search

Alternatives to Gmail

Alternatives to Chrome

Alternatives to Google Drive

Alternatives to YouTube

Alternatives to Google Analytics

Alternatives to Google Maps

Alternatives to the Google Play Store

Alternatives to Google Calendar

Privacy-oriented search engines that do not record the IP address, the history of search queries, the user-agent and the unique ID in the cookies, as Google does. Searx : universal private search engine Qwant : private search engine from France Metager : German private search engine DuckDuckGo : a good alternative to Google, but it stores the history of search queries StartPage : in fact Google, but without surveillanceSee also additional manual on private search engines.From the point of view of privacy, Gmail is one of the worst services that you can imagine. It saves all your confidential information and indexes it, and also gets information about your friends. After your Gmail authorization, Google can easily follow you on all the sites where Google Analytics trackers are installed. Mailfence , Belgium, 500 MB free of charge Tutanota , Germany, 1 GB free of charge Mailbox.org , Germany, 2 GB Protonmail , Switzerland, 500 MB free of charge browser Tor (now its functions are gradually integrated into Firefox within the framework of project Fusion Unfortunately, there are not many popular YouTube alternatives, here are some of them:VimeoDailymotionBitchuteHooktubeHooktube is essentially a proxy for YouTube, through which you can watch blocked videos, download them and circumvent any censorship restrictions. And of course you protect your data from being transferred to Google.To use Hooktube, you must replace it with any hook on the hooktube.On a personal computer, it's best to use OpenStreetMap For mobile devices, there are such options: Maps (F Droid) on OpenStreetMap data (offline) Maps.Me : but this application collects some amount of personal data The authors of the manual say that for today the best alternative to Google Play is the free programs directory F-Droid , where you can download the APK application catalog Yalp - and through it download APK of all the programs that are on the Google Play Store.The best option is Etar . Of the other alternatives, we can call aCalendar from TAPIRapps, Kin and Fruxx. But the last two are still not recommended, because they collect and store user data.The authors of the recommendations remind that in addition to Google and other Internet sites, your confidential information is collected by Internet providers (for sale) and government agencies (for monitoring). Therefore it is recommended use VPN and special tools to protect privacy.