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sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years agoThere's a fantastic plugin for google chrome based browsers called Privacy Redirect that automatically redirects twitter, instagram, youtube, google maps, google translate, reddit, wikipedia, and search URLs to free services.
Searx is a great choice I host and use myself. It's an open source web application that goes through a bunch of search engines and presents all the different search results ad-free. I exclusively use my own instance that excludes google search results, and it's great. Google search is getting too big for its britches, so I avoided them, but I consistently get excellent results.
goldenballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Yes, i've used it, but i think there are better ones. Chrome is a browser i use less often, when there are other options about... Even mildly more private ones like brave and opera, if tor and i2p isn't your thing.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
Brave is based on chrome, I exclusively use brave and use the privacy redirect plugin.
goldenballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I know it is, its one of many, but users shpuld nlt be under any illusions about how much actual privacy it offers.-
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
My big thing is just getting away from google services since they clearly don't want me as a customer anymore. I do have youtube premium for various reasons, but besides that I've migrated almost exclusively to other services for everything else.