Posted on 08/30/2018 1:35:17 PM PDT by EscondidoSurfer
If you are tired of Google and Silicon Valley censorship, I suggest that you do as I do:
1. For search, I use duckduckgo.com. You can add this as an app to your phone and use it on your PC as well. It acts like the old google search and claims not to track or show bias.
2. For my browser, instead of Chrome, Explorer or Safari, I use Brave.com. Again, no tracking and no bias that I am aware of.
3. For news, I go to realclearpolitics.com and its sister sites such as realclearworld.com. Here you will find links to high quality articles from a diverse selection of websites. Both right and leftwing views are represented.
4. For a moderated selection of conservative and neutral leaning articles, I go to freerepublic.com, which is supported by reader contributions and has no advertising. Readers upload all content including links and excerpts from articles.
5. For California news, I go to presscalifornia.com for California news and opinion.
1. For search, I use duckduckgo.com. You can add this as an app to your phone and use it on your PC as well. It acts like the old google search and claims not to track or show bias.
2. For my browser, instead of Chrome, Explorer or Safari, I use Brave.com. Again, no tracking and no bias that I am aware of.
3. For news, I go to realclearpolitics.com and its sister sites such as realclearworld.com. Here you will find links to high quality articles from a diverse selection of websites. Both right and leftwing views are represented.
4. For a moderated selection of conservative and neutral leaning articles, I go to freerepublic.com, which is supported by reader contributions and has no advertising. Readers upload all content including links and excerpts from articles.
5. For California news, I go to presscalifornia.com for California news and opinion.
Press one for English.
My wife and I use Opera as the default browser. Any idea whose side Opera’s creators are on?
Does the “Brave” browser work on Windows 7, Pro edition? I’m still running Explorer 11, and spend half my time re-loading pages.
Yes but whose API does ddg call behind the scenes ?
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I would also get VPN service from a reliable provider (I use PIA), and use it. You can bet your ISP is logging everything you do.
Brave works well on windows 7 pro. I use it so.
I use the brave browser, duckduckgo.com, and get most of my news via freerepublic. Anybody know of a US cell phone provider which supports phones running OS’s other than iOS and Android? (e.g. tizen, sailfish, ubuntu touch, etc)?
I have been using Duck Duck Go for > 1 year. No problems at all. Sometimes when I get poor results from DDG I fall back to Google and most of the time get the same poor results. Use things like google in private mode, default your browser settings to erase history and cookies, use a VPN and restart the browser when done.
It should. Works on my w7 box.
“My wife and I use Opera as the default browser. Any idea whose side Opera’s creators are on?”
I like Opera, but it is based on Chrome, and I think is now owned by China.
My browser of choice would be Brave, since it was created deliberately by Brendan Eich (after he was fired from Mozilla, which he also helped create, for donating to an anti-same-sex marriage referendum) to preserve privacy.
I am looking into Lineage OS and Consumer Cellular. Lineage is an android build that will work without a Google account. You have to sideload apps, which is fine with me. I am, however, interested in everything concerning secure and less nosy and intrusive smartphones.
The anonymity tool Tor uses Duck Duck Go as its default search engine.
I’ll take a look, thanks.
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Brave is an excellent, well thought-out browser: easy to use and protective of the user. It automatically eliminates most ads, annoy-ware and ensures user privacy without the need for worrying about external add-ons. I am quite impressed with it.
You and I share a lot of web sites. For a browser, I use Slimjet which is based on Chrome but without all the Chrome tracking BS.
I also use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection to the Internet. Mine is supplied by Private Internet Access and costs $40/year. Money well spent. PIA has many IP addresses to choose from. I’m in South Carolina but my current IP address is Houston, TX. PIA also has plenty of overseas IP addresses to choose from as well.
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