Hi everyone

Google and others are now openly farming user data for themselves or third parties, I am looking for alternatives to Android, Gmail, Chrome and Google search . Alternatives offering similar services for free, secure and showing respect for privacy ( I don't mind ads here and there). Any suggestions?

There are alternative but you have to pay if you want fast speeds, unless you want to use stuff like TOR or anonomizer or go through a proxy

What ^^^ said, TOR. Now it takes alittle self restraint to be fully anonymous such as not going to certain sites or using certain programs. Youtube... that's always the hardest habit to break. Have fun sailing the proxseas.

Thanks
I don't want to be fully anonymous
I just don't want the data and contents of my emails used for x purpose
Proxies, TOR are more a hassle. I have nothing to hide , only principles. I don't want to feed those greedy corporate ogres

Originally posted by TheOracle
Thanks
I don't want to be fully anonymous
I just don't want the data and contents of my emails used for x purpose
Proxies, TOR are more a hassle. I have nothing to hide , only principles. I don't want to feed those greedy corporate ogres

Startpage is a good search alternative. If you use it right it will hide your searches from Google and you do get an untargeted response from Google. Deleting cookies may or may not help. Some regenerate. Don't use tools you didn't purchase and check up on the ones you did. Opt out of all reporting and all email offered to keep you up to date. You can use a u3 browser if you have a usb that supports that.

Tor is a good option and so are proxy servers if you can find elite servers that stay up, are fast and you don't post passwords.

Take my word for it these free proxy servers are just waiting to trip you up and also note a proxy server is able to fake anything it likes and even read and change any cookies you might have.

Google is the real evil one and is ripping people off with pay--per-click link and google is quite happy to allow 3rd party sites to direct traffic to google leads/ double click and don't care if the clicks come from a virus.

The add server on this site often use private IP address and many posts about this her on ATS get deleted or you get some tosser telling the person who brings the subject up to install more frigging memory as if they have the slightest clue about whats going on.

People need to stop being on the defensive, it does not work and go on the attack by screwing up the spyware messages and passing them back to google and the likes so that the data they hold becomes worthless and I for one post google the same cookie from 300-400 difrent locations, get my machine screen size to change every ten second and stuff like that.

Google Plus button uses 2000 lines of _javascript code to track you and thats just for a tiny little button they put on the page well Google should know that even traffic over HTTPS can be changed on the client so they get screwed up data from me.

Fight back anyway and everyway you can and google will soon be put back in it's MOSSAD/CIA box.