I selfhost what I gain and try to degoogle as well.
The rest of the world
I cover my webcams, I have almost entirely de-Googled (since they’ve been attacking Invidious, I’ve had to resort to watching the videos on YT if they aren’t on PeerTube or Floatplane or whatever), I use Linux and BSD, I am planning to switch to GrapheneOS at some point, and I try to avoid software and services from countries with problematic governments (e.g. China, Russia, USA). I am also using local software, with data sychronised via SyncThing (currently just my notes and passwords, but the list is growing).
I also use Mullvad Browser when available, and either Brave or Epiphany when it isn’t.
I am still on the lookout for a decent search engine, though, as all of the ones I’ve used are either not as private as I thought (e.g. Ecosia, Qwant), or are broken (e.g. LibreY), or did something I disagreed with (e.g. DuckDuckGo, Brave Search), or are hostile towards VPN/Tor users (e.g. Startpage), or didn’t have good enough indexes (e.g. Mojeek), or became unavailable to me (e.g. Peekier, MetaGer).
Just fyi https://inv.nadeko.net/ somehow still works. Also there is stuff like freetube/libretube. As for search engines, I assume you have mullvad vpn, you could use mullvad Leta (don’t know how good they are right now, haven’t used them in a while). Also there is Swisscows
or didn’t have good enough indexes (e.g. Mojeek)
Got anymore on that? Always looking to improve
You guys just need time, I think. I’ll probably be a proud Mojeek user in the future, but for now I need something a bit different. That said, I have found Mojeek to be excellent for finding smaller blogs and articles that I wouldn’t otherwise have read, so it’s still pretty useful even if I don’t use it as my main engine.
thanks a lot, if you have any search terms which didn’t work so well then that’s useful for this process
First time I’ve heard of your project. it looks great!
Do you have any place you’d like to collect result issues? I’d be willing to run it for a while and give feedback on anything out of whack.
The biggest problem I see in about 10 minutes of playing with it:
Official documentation gets trampled by older fan docs.
q=“Setting up Tailscale on Linux”
In a perfect world would give you “https://tailscale.com/kb/1031/install-linux”
Bing, Google, Quant, all rate that high (#1), it’s a universal instruction page for most linux.
q=“Tailscale” does bring me right to the official site.
q=“site:tailscale.com tailscale setup” does net a couple of results from their kb, but not 1031.
another example
q=“Pinokio Setup”
expecting to headline pinokio.computer as the official site, but there’s nothing on the first page.
changing it to q=“pinokio” drops you right on the pinokio.computer
q=“site:pinokio.computer pinokio setup” results in no results
It’s super responsive, please keep up the good work!
Thanks a lot, these are very useful and will be raised. For further feedback there is https://www.mojeek.com/about/contact and also a submit feedback button on results pages.
Bing, Google, Quant, all rate that high (#1), it’s a universal instruction page for most linux.
Just in case you didn’t know, Qwant will have that high because they use Bing’s index.
Cash.
VoIP instead of cell service. VoIP is kyc but I can use it without celltower tracking. I keep my phone in airplane mode.
GrapheneOS and lots of Foss apps.
Every account gets a unique login - name, password, email alias. I also give as much fake information as I can. 2fa when it available.
I have no accounts with any of the big tech.
I’m planning on buying a used Windows laptop and installing Linux. Pop_OS to start as I have an eBook on that os.
Edit: corrected autocorrect.
I try to blend in and avoid posting my main privacy activities in public.
Despite what they say, while obfuscation may not be secure, it sure helps with privacy.
Then why comment dawg
Who says that was me?
Wait
What is this place?
As the days go by….
