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What we are going to address today is a particular topic. The project TheAlternatives was created precisely to be a point of reference between those who know nothing about it and those who want to learn something. The aim of the project is to make online privacy go viral as much as possible. Make it a common discussion topic. This is why today we will talk about alternatives to LeAlternative.net. What does it mean?
It's easy to say: we are not the first site to address the topic nor will we be the last. What we are going to propose to you today is therefore a list of sites friends, that is, sites that we do not consider in any way to be competitors but complementary. The more projects of this type there will be, the more likely it is that privacy will become a common topic and not relegated to boundaries of nerdiness or of paranoia.
Alternatives to LeAlternative.net
Let's start with a small list of Italian alternatives. Unfortunately in Italy it is still a very niche topic and the realities, although increasing, are scarce. If you know or are part of a similar project, don't hesitate to let us know e-mail or through any social networks!
- Digital Ethics: They created the ambitious PrivaSì project. A beginner's guide to understanding the importance of online privacy that offers some simple ways to discover new things. They also have a group and channel Telegram.
- devol: it's a collective that wants degoogle the web. For this reason they offer dozens of alternative services!
- Librezilla: Italian directory of free online services, Open source and free.
- Magnetism 2.1: a good, constantly updated collection of alternatives FOSS and not only.
- XT3: thanks to your report on Mastodon we also include this Italian project that offers email, Hosting and so on.
- EXIT project: you reported it to us on our group Telegram, an interesting project to take back online privacy.
- Framasoft: they are not Italian, but the site is translated into Italian. It is a non-profit organization with dozens of alternative projects active and usable by anyone.
- Get Privacy: a nice and aesthetically very pleasant project. Just a few steps are enough to improve your online privacy, here is a simple example to pass on to friends and relatives!
- Free programs: site with graphics unchanged over time that often offers free programs Open source.
- Libreadvice: guides, articles and technology tips. Several interesting articles to delve deeper into the topic. Unfortunately it seems to be stuck in 2020.
These sites, like ours, generally speak to an audience not entirely accustomed to technology who wants to learn new things. Some more famous sites have been deliberately excluded: partly because they are full of tracers and advertising, partly because they used too technical language.
Non-Italian alternatives
- Switching.software: simple and intuitive. Some ethical alternatives, easy to use and attentive to privacy. Clear, simple and accessible to everyone.
- Ethical Alternatives: this site, like the previous one, also offers quick alternatives and ethics with small descriptions. It doesn't seem very up to date but it is certainly an important resource.
- AlternativesTo: a site to always keep among your favorites. Thousands of alternatives chosen by vote by site users. It does not specialize in ethical alternatives but you can select only products from the filters Open source!
- European Alternatives: a really well done site that offers and offers only and exclusively European alternatives!
- PrivacyGuides: the community that was behind the site PrivacyTools broke away from the original owner and created a Fork of the site with continuous updates and managed by the community itself through the GitHub platform;
- FMHY, an (excellent) almost infinite list of free alternatives.
- PrivacyTools: once considered the site "par excellence", now it is separate by the community and is managed only by one person with some questionable choices, especially due to the perhaps excessive use of affiliate links. However, it remains a useful resource to go alongside PrivacyGuides;
- Cutting Google out of your life: a project born on Reddit then moved up GitHub. Dozens and dozens of ethical alternatives to Google!
- No More Google, the name of the site says it all! The difference with other sites is that on this one the alternatives are chosen directly by users with a like and scoring system. Useful but take it with a pinch of salt: they are not looking for ethical alternatives but only alternatives to Google, of any type. Between alternatives to Google Drive in fact it stands out Dropbox, not really a benchmark for privacy.
- Alternative privacy friendly frontends: a list of interesting ethical alternatives. Unfortunately between the changes to Reddit, Twitter (X) and Meta there are only a handful of fully functional ones left.
- Awesome Privacy 1, a collection of applications and services Open source constantly updated by Alicia Sykes.
- Digital Defense, by the same author as Awesome Privacy a sort of test to do to understand how much you are after you with digital defense. Just visit the various sections and flag various behaviors to increase your progress!
The ones below, however, are sites with slightly more catastrophic and perhaps more paranoid tones than the previous ones. Therefore, to be taken with a pinch of salt, but useful to get a complete idea.
- PRISM Break: site a little more paranoid than the previous ones, some alternatives are only for experts and not always easy to use. However, there are many useful tips for Windows, iOS and Android.
- Restore Privacy: this is also a relatively complex site and a little too paranoid. But in general it offers interesting and excellent readings on the topic!
So here is a list alternatives to LeAlternative.net. If you want to continue to follow us assiduously, we are also waiting for you on ours Telegram channel come on Feddit!
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