Hate Google, Is there an alternative that repects privacy ?

rufydoofyM

As useful as google is I don't like the way they operate, track and store info on people. They avoid tax and appear too powerful to my liking.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to the alternatives I can try that respect privacy, but still come up with relevant and accurate results.

Thanks M

System

Apart from possibly the tax side, all search engines work that way. Thier paying customers expect them to collect information and supply targetted ads to the people who use it. That's what they pay for.

Gillor

Startpage gives you google search results in complete privacy:

https://startpage.com/

bluesnake

Yup google does spy quite a bit.

The tor portable is quite good. using it your are anonymous even with google, but since the data has public exit points it is not private, so although people do not know whom you are, the exit point will know what you surf if you are not connecting to an encrypted site, and if the log into [EMAIL="roofy@gmail.com"]roofy@mail.com[/EMAIL] in plain text then 'we know who you are'

All personalised site validates you, like mail, banking, subscription services, facebook, etc to some extent.

under the tor service there is also tormail.org (not tormail.net etc) for a free private email service

Then there is dnscrypt top stop you isp tracing and logging your dns serches. but do turn on 443 encryption for extra security.

In firefox ther is a plugin that selects https version of the site (if available) from Electronic Frontier Foundation called HTTPS Everywhere, but if the site does not support https, then it is nor everywhere.

Ultimate security cost and is vpn that does not log your actions, unlike the popular UK one mentioned here http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/0415213/hidemyasscom-doesnt-hide-logs-from-the-fbi

agrinnall

bluesnake wrote: »

Yup google does spy quite a bit.

The tor portable is quite good. using it your are anonymous, but since the data has public exit points it is not private, so although people do not know whom you are, the exit point will know what you surf, and if the log into [EMAIL="roofy@gmail.com"]roofy@gmail.com[/EMAIL] then...

under the tor service there is also tormail.org (not tormail.net etc) for a free private email service

Then there is dnscrypt top stop you isp tracing and logging your dns serches. but do turn on 443 encryption for extra security.

In firefox ther is a plugin that selects https version of the site (if available) from Electronic Frontier Foundation called HTTPS Everywhere, but if the site does not support https, then it is nor everywhere.

Ultimate security cost and is vpn that does not log your actions, unlike the popular UK one mentioned here http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/0415213/hidemyasscom-doesnt-hide-logs-from-the-fbi

Any chance you could rewrite that in a language that approximates to English? I'm sure it's good stuff, but while I consider myself reasonably technically competent I have little clue what you are going on about (acronyms, unexplained techie terms, spelling, grammar).

bubblesbonbon

Ixquick boasts it's privacy credentials but I don't know if they use data for their own uses.

https://www.ixquick.com/uk/

https://www.ixquick.com/eng/prism-program-revealed.html

ChristopheB

I have started using this search engine.

Duck Duck Go

Stupid name, not as feature rich as Google but seem less evil.

50Twuncle

I guess that if you are that paranoid - you can always use a proxy in combination www.duckduckgo or any other search engine that you wish ? http://www.hidemyass.com/ is a known good one !!

k3lvc

Back to the good old days of paper & pen together with frequent trips to the local library (although with CCTV and those pesky gossiping librarians I'm sure they're not that hot on privacy either :rotfl:)

bluesnake

21Twinkle wrote: »

I guess that if you are that paranoid ..... in combination http://www.hidemyass.com/ is a known good one !!

No, Hidemyass is about the last one you should go with and for privacy the are very bad. Please look http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/0415213/hidemyasscom-doesnt-hide-logs-from-the-fbi (hopefully my paste worked), or google them as it was very well reported.

To view films or channels from other countries Hidemyass will let stuff stream, but will give your log files away should they be asked.

martinthebandit

Another vote for both duckduckgo and ixquick.

To be honest I have found googles results increasingly irrelevant.