![]() For desktop I like Firefox, Pale Moon, and Opera. ![]() The only other option I can suggest, if you must have a smartphone, is an iPhone.Ĭhrome (web browser). ![]() Newer Blackberries, alas, use Google's Android OS. December 2021 update: Blackberry is "decommissioning" all non-Android products, including the Z10 and Q10. I like our old Blackberry Z10 and Q10 smartphones - you can still (in 2021) buy refurbished units from Newegg - which use the QNX-based Blackberry 10 OS. I've also read a recommendation for Fastmail. I've heard ProtonMail widely recommended. Otherwise, there are many free webmail services. Ditto your web hosting service, if you use one. Your ISP should provide a mail account (and may provide webmail). DuckDuckGo now has a news search, but there's no direct link to it - you have to do a general search, and then click the "News" tab. These days I use Bing News (yes, I know, I'm using a Microsoft product). Others: Bing, Yahoo! Search, Yandex,, dogpile*, excite*, WebCrawler*, *. Startpage is a privacy-protecting front end for Google (ok if you just want privacy, but not if you dislike Google's search bias or want to boycott Google). So here, long overdue, is an updated list of alternatives to help you break your dependence on Google services. At the time I remarked "one overlarge, overbearing tech behemoth is much like another." Well, that's no longer true - I now consider Google to be far more dangerous and abusive than Microsoft. A few years ago I posted "Goodbye, Google" as a guide to eliminating all traces of Google from your life.
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