Without Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple & the rest Big Tech
(in progress)
The higher the level - the lower the level of comfort and stability, but higher the level of freedom and ethical, respectful treatment of you.
Don't choose the highest level everywhere at once (you can go crazy that way), choose what you need to accomplish your tasks and move slowly to the next level (if you understand what you really need it)
Web
Web Search 1 lvl.: Brave Search (U.S.), MetaGer (Germany)
0 lvl. (have censorship + no privacy): Alternative to Google Search (U.S.), Microsoft Bing (U.S.), Yahoo! Search (U.S.), Yandex.Search (Russia & Netherlands), Baidu (China) & etc. 0,1 lvl. (also have censorship): DuckDuckGo (U.S.), Qwant (France), Startpage (Netherlands & U.S.) (part of pay-per-click ad company System1),
2 lvl.: Searx, Wiby 3 lvl. (own index + no IP storage): Mojeek (U.K.)
E-Mail 0,5 lvl.: Proton Mail (Switzerland), Tutanota (Germany), Mailfence (Belgium),
0 lvl.: Alternative to Gmail (U.S.), Outlook.com (U.S.), Yahoo Mail (U.S.), Yandex Mail (Russia & Netherlands), StartMail (Netherlands & U.S.), Librem Mail & etc.
2 lvl.: Posteo 3 lvl.: Elude, Disroot, Riseup, CounterMail
Video-sharing service 1 lvl.: Odysee (U.S.), also Rumble (Canada), BitChute (U.K.), Brighteon (U.S.), BitTubers
0 lvl.: Alternative to YouTube (U.S.), Dailymotion (France), Rutube.ru (Russia), vk.com/video (Russia), iQiyi (China), Youku (China) 0,5 lvl.: Vimeo (U.S.)
2 lvl.: PeerTube
Video-streaming 1 lvl.: Odysee (U.S.)
0 lvl.: Twitch (Amazon - U.S.), YouTube (Google - U.S.), Trovo (Tencent - China), BIGO LIVE (JOYY - China) 0,5 lvl.: DLive
2 lvl.: PeerTube, Owncast, Open Streaming Platform
1 lvl.: Pixelfed
0 lvl.: Alternative to Instagram *https://pixelfed.social/ (https://www.patreon.com/dansup/overview)
Alternative for Apple Music, Google Play Music, Yandex Music & etc.
Also SoundCloud, Jamendo, Funkwhale
Alternative for Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive & etc.
Also Sync.com, Seafile, Tresorit & Spideroak One Backup
Smartphone
1 lvl.: LineageOS + Open GApps (nano or pico ver.)
0 lvl.: Alternative to Android (Google - U.S.), iOS (Apple - U.S.), MIUI (Xiaomi - China), HarmonyOS (Huawei - China), ColorOS (OPPO/BBK - China), Tizen OS (Samsung - South Korea) & etc.
2 lvl.: LineageOS +/- microG (or LineageOS for microG) Also /e/ (Samsung S7/Edge, S9/+ & others) & Sailfish OS (Jolla C, Sony Xperia X, XA2) 3 lvl.: Replicant (Samsung Galaxy S2/3, Note/2, Nexus)
1-3 lvl.: OpenBoard, also FlorisBoard, Simple Keyboard, AnySoftKeyboard
0 lvl.: Alternative to Gboard (https://alternativeto.net/software/gboard-go/about/), Microsoft SwiftKey, TouchPal Keyboard & etc.
0,5 lvl.: Fleksy with the "do not track" option turned on
1-3 lvl.: F-Droid and +/- Aurora Store
0 lvl.: Alternative to Google Play Store, Amazon Appstore, Samsung Galaxy Store, Huawei AppGallery & etc.
3 lvl.: Directly from the developers
Alternative eMail client 1-3 lvl.: K-9 Mail, also FairEmail
0 lvl.: Alternative to Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Yandex Mail & etc.
0 lvl.: Alternative to WhatsApp (U.S.), Viber (Luxembourg & Japan), Skype (U.S.), Facebook Messenger (U.S.), Hangouts (U.S.), Google Duo (U.S.), LINE (Japan), WeChat (China), Tencent QQ (China), ICQ (Russia) & etc.
1 lvl.: Wire (Switzerland) 2 lvl.: Element 3 lvl.: Jami, Briar
1-3 lvl.: Bromite + Tor Browser (or Orbot with Orfox)
0 lvl.: Alternative to Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Yandex Browser, Brave, Maxthon Cloud Browser, Dolphin Browser & etc.
1-3 lvl.: Simple Calendar, also Etar
0 lvl.: Alternative to Google Calendar
0,5 lvl.: TimeTree - calendar for sharing
1-3.: Organic Maps, also OsmAnd
0 lvl.: Alternative to Google Maps (and Waze), Apple Maps, Yandex Maps, MAPS.ME & etc.
4 lvl.: Paper maps exist. Alternatively, ask the local people if you can't get somewhere.
Alternative for Evernote & etc.
Also Joplin & Zoho Notebook
PC
1 lvl.: Linux Mint, also worth mentioning: elementary OS, Solus or modified ver. of Windows 7 (yeah, i know) - version without telemetry, CEIP and other things
0 lvl.: Alternative to Windows 11 (https://alternativeto.net/software/windows-10/about/, Windows 8), macOS, Google Chrome OS, Ubuntu, KDE neon, Fedora & Deepin
2 lvl.: Trisquel, PureOS 3 lvl. (no systemd): Salix , Devuan, antiX, GNU Guix, Void Linux, Parabola, 4 lvl.: Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre, OpenBSD
1-2 lvl.: LibreWolf or Ungoogled Chromium + Tor Browser
0 lvl.: Alternative to Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Opera (Opera heavily spies on you), Vivaldi, Brave, Waterfox (sold to pay-per-click ad company System1 in oct-dec 2019), Yandex Browser & etc.
3 lvl.: Web Browser, Otter Browser
1 lvl.: ONLYOFFICE
0 lvl.: Alternative to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint
2-3 lvl.: LibreOffice (https://alternativeto.net/software/libreoffice-writer/, LibreOffice - Calc, LibreOffice - Impress)
1 lvl.: SumatraPDF,
0 lvl.: Alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader
1 lvl.: nomacs
0 lvl.: Alternative to Photos, ImageGlass
1 lvl.: AIMP
1 lvl.: PicoTorrent - sadly only for Windows, but best in my opinion
0 lvl.: Alternative to µTorrent, BitTorrent
2-3 lvl.: Transmission & qBittorrent
1 lvl. (without DRM): GOG.com, also worth mentioning Humble Bundle & itch.io
0 lvl. Alternative to Steam, Epic Games Store, Ubisoft Connect, EA App (https://alternativeto.net/software/ea-origin/about/), Battle.net, Xbox App & etc.
KeePassXC is a community fork of KeePassX, the cross-platform port of KeePass for Windows. Every feature is cross-platform and tested to give users the same feel on each operating system, including the loved auto-type feature.
The complete database is always encrypted with the AES (alias Rijndael) encryption algorithm using a 256 bit key. KeePassXC uses a database format that is compatible with KeePass Password Safe. Your wallet always works offline and requires no Internet connection.
The source code is published under the terms of the GNU General Public License. KeePassXC is and always will be free as in freedom as well as in beer. Contributions from everyone are welcome.
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
The main features of 7-Zip
High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression Supported formats: Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z. For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats Self-extracting capability for 7z format Integration with Windows Shell Powerful File Manager Powerful command line version Plugin for FAR Manager Localizations for 87 languages
7-Zip works in Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2012 / 2008 / 2003 / 2000 / NT. There is a port of the command line version to Linux/Unix and macOS.
VeraCrypt is a free and libre source (open source) disk encryption software brought to you by https://www.idrix.fr
Features:
• Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. • Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive. • Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication). • Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent. • Parallelization and pipelining allow data to be read and written as fast as if the drive was not encrypted. • Encryption can be hardware-accelerated on modern processors. • Provides plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password: Hidden volume (steganography) and hidden operating system. • Multilingual. More than 35 languages. List at https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/code/ci/master/tree/Translations • More information about the features of VeraCrypt may be found in this documentation at https://veracrypt.fr/en/Documentation.html
VeraCrypt is based on TrueCrypt 7.1a at TrueCrypt . In comparison to TrueCrypt, VeraCrypt adds enhanced security to the algorithms used for system and partitions encryption, making it immune to new developments in brute-force attacks.
For example, when the system partition is encrypted, TrueCrypt uses PBKDF2-RIPEMD160 with 1000 iterations whereas in VeraCrypt we use 327670. And for standard containers and other partitions, TrueCrypt uses at most 2000 iterations but VeraCrypt uses 655340 for RIPEMD160 and 500000 iterations for SHA-2 and Whirlpool.
VeraCrypt is licensed with both Apache 2.0 and TrueCrypt 3.0 licenses. Per https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/code/ci/master/tree/License.txt#l24
Features:
- Download from all kind of platforms: YouTube, vimeo, twitter & many more
- Download multiple videos/playlists/channels in one go
- Select the resolution and format you want to download in
- Download private videos (currently only tested on YouTube)
- Multithreaded, up to 32 videos can be downloaded synchronously
- Shows how much size the download will use up on your system
- The app automatically keeps ytdl up-to-date
Great list! Bookmarked. Thank you!