Ixquick is the most private search engine available. While it has better privacy than DDG, I have personally found that it’s more difficult to find what I’m looking for there. DDG is its own search engine while Ixquick consults ten different search engines, none of which are Google.

StartPage is run by Ixquick. The difference between the two pages is that StartPage uses only Google searches. Using this one completely depends on whether or not you feel that StartPage indirectly supports Google as a result.

There are other search engines out there but I personally feel that the three above are the best. Still, if you want to check them out, here you go: Disconnect, MetaGer, and searX.

Tor-Users and Cloudfare/Captchas are going to favor Ixquick/StartPage. Happy searching!

I’ve noticed that DuckDuckGo has been gaining a lot of traction on this site recently. This is a very good alternative to Google but there are other alternatives out there.

I am a fan of DuckDuckGo. Great search engine.

How about email and browsers alternatives as well?

When I de-googled I switched to DuckDuckGo for search; protonmail for email (which lead to protonVPN for VPN); and dumped Chrome, as my occasional alternative to Safari, for Firefox. Use loads of privacy plugins for Safari and Firefox which stops most cookies and tracking (ABP, Ghostery, uBlock etc.)

These are obviously for mainstream users (which i am mostly). The default Tor browser is based on Firefox (just checked) and I believe is due a major update in the near future.

riseup.net is a good (very private) email service too but you generally need an invite to that. I don’t use that too often these days as protonmail security and privacy is excellent.

How about email and browsers alternatives as well?

Speaking of email. I had inbox.com for 11 years. They decided last year to do away with their free accounts. I paid $8 last year (hardly seemed like a big deal really) to keep my account for a year. Now they want another $28 this year for the cheapest service. I was like “no thanks”. So I signed up with

mail.com

Duck duck go is my oficial search engine now.

I have it set to the search engine for firefox

How about email and browsers alternatives as well?

Email
1. ProtonMail – Free and paid service. The free service does not offer much storage. Still, it’s the most secure free email service out there. Please note that if you’re in an email chain with any user(s) not using secure email, the email cannot truly be considered secure. Communicating with someone who does not protect themselves removes a great deal of the protections you put into place for yourself.

2. Tutanota – Free and paid service. Like ProtonMail, very limited storage on the free service but it’s still available. ProtonMail has a slightly better reputation but this is a close second.

Web Browsers

Dozens and dozens of web browsers are available. I’ll just cover a few. Feel free to experiment with others.

1. Tor Browser – If you’re looking for security, this is it. If you have never used Tor before, you may find that some of the pages you normally use don’t work properly out of the box. You may need to do some tweaking to the browser and/or consult a forum or two. Also note that the default search engine for the most secure web browser is StartPage, not DuckDuckGo as it was in the past.

2. Mozilla Firefox – This is one of the most popular browsers and is also the one that Tor is based off of. Like Chrome, many plugins are available for you to customize.

3. Opera – Another popular browser than has been around for many years. Not as feature rich as other browsers but makes up for that with speed and stability.

4. Vivaldi – A new browser and the most customizable available. I haven’t used this one yet but I hear great things.

I think any AI based search engine is vulnerable to bots and people, then, in BR, most google results are based on feminism, left, etc..