List of free,open source and privacy respecting services and alternatives to privative services.

* [Search Engines](#search-engines) * [Photo Storage](#photo-storage) * [Social Networks](#social-networks) * [Instagram](#instagram) ## Search Engines **AVOID** * Google Search * Yahoo Search * Bing * Yandex **Instead use:** * [Whoogle Search](https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search) - A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting Google metasearch engine. * [Qwant](https://www.qwant.com/) - A privacy oriented search engine made in France with no tracking. * [SearX](https://searx.me/) - Privacy-respecting metasearch engine. ## Photo storage **AVOID** * Google Photos * Amazon Photos **Instead use:** * [Stingle Photos](https://stingle.org/) - Open source solution that provides strong security, privacy and encryption to backup your photos. * [Crypt.ee](https://crypt.ee/) - A private and encrypted place for all your photos, documents, notes and more. * [Photoprism](https://photoprism.app) - Feature rich server-based application for browsing, organizing and sharing your personal photo collection. The most similar to Google Photos. * [Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com/) - The open source self-hosted productivity platform that keeps you in control. It has a [*Photos*](https://github.com/nextcloud/photos) plugin to help you organize and visualize your photos. ## Google Drive ## Google Maps ## Youtube ## Gmail / Outlook ## Android ## Android TV ## Social Networks ### Instagram Don't use instagram (or at least the official client). Instagram is a very privacy-invasive, censoring, biased and manipulation tool. Instead Use: * [Pixelfed](https://pixelfed.org/) - Decentralized, federated and Open Source alternative to Instagram with posts, videos, stories, tags, etc. * [Barinsta](http://barinsta.austinhuang.me/) - The beautiful, open source, and privacy-friendly alternative Instagram client for Android. ## Whatsapp ## Facebook ## Twitter ## Amazon ## Microsoft ## Reddit