Google is the biggest and, arguably, the best out there. According to Lead Public Policy Manager at DuckDuckGo (a rival search engine), Aurélien Mähl, that's because of the company's scale — a market share of over 90%. "We are building our own index step by step, and we face a huge barrier in catching up, given Google's scale,” he told TechRadar. “It’s something that is simply not feasible given how the market is constructed, and intervention is necessary." Mähl argues that liberating Google’s search data would not only generate market growth but also improve accuracy for rare queries, given t
‘Google is not collaborative and not in the spirit of complying with this regulation’ – can the EU Commission strong-arm Google into levelling the playing field of the search engine market, and is this really in the interest of your privacy?…Unfortunately, between their file size (and number) limits, sign-up requirements, and long queue times, online file conversion tools are far from user-friendly. That’s before you include the privacy problems…
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…Its suite, including mail, drive, calendar, password manager, and VPN, is designed from the ground up as a Google alternative, with Swiss privacy law underpinning all of it. If you're simply…
A free, open-source GitHub project called OpenNOW is gaining a lot of attention in the PC gaming community as an alternative to the native NVIDIA GeForce Now app. OpenNOW, created and…
Hey everyone, We've built an open-source, privacy-preserving alternative to Ring cameras using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W (called Secluso). It uses end-to-end encryption to send videos from the camera to a mobile app, which …
Android has long positioned itself as the open alternative to Apple's closed ecosystem. Many people chose Android for this openness and freedom to customize and alter your software. This is again under serious threat. Go…
Hi all, I have been making a lot of updates to my project, and I wanted to share them here. TextGen (previously text-generation-webui, also known as my username oobabooga or ooba) has been in development since December 2…
Hi Reddit, We just wrapped up The Android Show | I/O Edition, and a core theme of the show was how we’re making your phone more helpful so that you can spend less time looking at it and more time living your life. To mak…
…Eliminating these cookies is a major privacy boost for the internet, and Google pledged its so-called "privacy sandbox" would not feature any similar technology . FLoC is Google's alternative to cookies…
Want GeForce Now with more privacy and 'power-user features' like 'Anti-AFK'? OpenNow is an open-source alternative client
…I was already using workspaces in Floorp and moving the interface around without waiting for an update. And Mullvad Browser already had the stricter privacy defaults that made me try it in…
…debuts an alternative that puts creators in control Venture Nicolas Sauvage is betting on the boring parts of AI Latest in Privacy In Brief US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data…
…is a great open-source password manager from the company behind Proton Drive and other privacy-focused Google alternatives such as Proton Mail. While I put off switching to a standalone password…
…DuckDuckGo DuckDuckGo is another privacy-focused search engine, and it has touted itself as the anti-Google. While Google collects and stores data on you to create personalized search results, DuckDuckGo doesn…
