other private and sustainable software
Please for the love of god just use Firefox. It’s such a good piece of software and the company also does amazing pro-consumer stuff.
Signal is the gold standard for private messaging, and is also in the “oh my god just use it” category. (Telegram is also fine, but isn’t the gold standard anymore…)
For email, I personally use hey, which has some nice power-user features in a pretty package, but I’ve also heard really good things about proton mail. Proton in general looks like a great Google replacement. They have a calendar, drive, password manager, etc.
For search engines, Duck Duck Go has been beating my expectations, to the point where I often like the DDG results over the Google results. I sometimes do use Google as a backup, but I don’t necessarily think Google has better results, just different ones.
Privacy.com for private purchases.
