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I, like many, decided a while ago to de-google my life. This post is about my reasons behind doing it, what I have achieved, and just as importantly what haven’t I been able to de-google? The service offering from Google is strong. There’s a bunch of really useful tools - for free - that the average person can use in their daily lives. This could be for example Google Mail, Google Docs, or Google Maps, to name a few. I decided a while ago to stop using as many Google products as possible, because of their privacy policy. Their privacy policy is, it’s fair to say ** checks notes ** not very good! ...

Kagi.com is a paid-for search engine, that’s around 2 years old. I’ve been using it for about 4 months now, and I’m super impressed with the results. I’ve not been happy with Google search results for quite some time now. They’re having to walk a thin line, in my opinion, between keeping their customers happy - whilst still having a very mystical SEO process - and generating reasonable search results for those who are using google search. I was also not very happy with myself being the product of google search - as they say; if it’s free, you are the product. I don’t want adverts being flung at me every search that I do - I simply want an answer to my question. So, I had a look around to see what else I could use. ...

Here’s some useful things that I have come across in my life that I currently enjoy using: Tech Companies Search engine: kagi.com Domain registrar: Porkbun Email Hosting: proton.com DNS Provider: desec.io Hosting provider: Upcloud Linux Distro: openSUSE | Fedora Online Community: omg.lol Home Networking: unifi