Disservices of the Net, and Alternatives

"Social Media" (is a farce, anyway.)

• Google- so many alternatives. See Google Article.
• Facebook- Minds
• Twitter- Nitter/Fritter (front-end {view twitter without connecting directly} Mastodon, Pleroma
• Snapchat- send things over Session/Signal/XMPP/qTox/p2pchat
• Instagram (a great tool to keep track of what every human is doing with their life) Pixelfed?
• Reddit- notabug, kddit, or another front-end
• Whatsapp- Signal, Session, Briar, qTox, Wickr, Wire, XMPP
  (Telegram has weak, homemade encryption and doesn't encrypt standard chats.)
  (Signal asks for your phone number and needs Google servicess to work on Android, Also, you cant add contacts on the desktop client, so you still need a phone to use this fully.)
• Amazon - buy from stores/sites directly, or support your local warehouses

Email:

Bad

Gmail | Hotmail/Outlook | Yahoo

Good

Debian | Dismail | Disroot | Posteo | Riseup |

TheXYZ (for business)

Search Engines

BAD

Google | Yahoo | Bing | Yandex

GOOD

SEARX | Metager | wiby (small sites)

Browsers

BAD

• Firefox
• Chrome
• Edge
• Opera
• Vivaldi
• Netscape
• Brave (fake privacy initiatives, fake cryptocurrency, too much phoning home, and is shilled frequently. Never trust shilled things.)

Better (but barely get updated)

• Icecat
• Iridium

Great (and get updated regularly)

• Librewolf
• Pale Moon
• Basilisk (Experimental)
• links/links2/elinks/lynx
• The Tor Browser
• qutebrowser
• surf
• netsurf

Useful Addons

• Umatrix
• UBlock Origin
• Privacy Possum
• Cookie Autodelete
• HTTPS Everywhere
• Decentraleyes
• pass/KeepassXC/Bitwarden
• Dark Reader/Advanced Night Mode
• Onion Browser Button
• TPRB (Third-Party Request Blocker) [Very good.]

Good VPNS:

Mullvad- sign up completely anonymously | Airvpn- great security.

Everything else cannot compare. Also, don't listen to the self-proclaimed, "Lord of VPNs", Tom Spark Reviews, he is actually the Lord of Shills. He recommends the VPN Torguard righteously, even though its based in America, is slow as hell when connecting, and asks for way to much personal information (althought you don't have to put real stuff.) He doesn't know what he's talking about.

GNU/Linux Distros

Check out this great article for an excellent explanation of the most used distributions. Major Distributions

Free (Libre) GNU/Linux Distros

Pure OS | Trisquel | Parabola | gNewSense

You can find the others at FSF-Free Distros.

Very Private and Secure GNU/Linux Distros

Tails | Whonix | Qubes