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Alternative Media Platforms
DUE TO CENSORSHIP, TIME TO STOP GOOGLE GESTAPO AND USE ALTERNATIVES
http://12160.info/m/discussion?id=2649739%3ATopic%3A1755446
ALTERNATIVE MEDIA PLATFORMS
YOUTUBE ALTERNATIVES
bitchute.com
A peer to peer video sharing platform that puts respect for people and #freedomofexpression first.
liveleak.com
pewtube.com
The web’s most creator friendly media hosting, supports not only video, but also audio and images, livestreaming and easy monetization!
vimeo.com
d.tube
D.Tube is the first crypto-decentralized video platform, built on top of the STEEM Blockchain and the IPFS peer-to-peer network, it aims to become an alternative to YouTube that allows you to watch or upload videos on IPFS and share or comment about it on the immutable STEEM Blockchain, while earning cryptocurrency doing it.
Hooktube
dailymotion.com
VIDEO CODECS
https://www.webmproject.org/vp9/
VP9 video codec reduces file size without lowering quality.
PEER-TO-PEER / 2P DATA & INFORMATION EXCHANGES
real.video
Real.Video is a p2p file sharing infrastructure for videos and other content (it also supports audio files, PDF files, text files and HTML files) by ‘Health Ranger‘ Mike Adams of naturalnews.com.
TEXT CHAT / VOIP / VOICE COMS ALTERNATIVES
https://discordapp.com/
All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that’s free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone. Stop paying for TeamSpeak servers and hassling with Skype. Simplify your life.
https://tox.chat/
Tox is a peer-to-peer instant-messaging and video-calling protocol that offers end-to-end encryption.
SOCIAL MEDIA ALTERNATIVES
https://gab.ai
Welcome to Gab, a social network that champions free speech, individual liberty, and the free flow of information online. All are welcome.
https://www.minds.com
An open-source, community-owned social network providing tools for revenue, reach, privacy and Internet freedom.
https://voat.co
Voat – have your say – a community platform where you can have your say. No censorship.
https://wrongthink.net/
WrongThink is an alternative social network for the people, by the people that actually respect your Freedom of Speech.
Steemit.com
CROWDFUNDING ALTERNATIVES
https://goyfundme.com
https://twitter.com/Goyfundme
(Down as of March 1 2018)
https://hatreon.net/
A platform for creators, absent speech policing – Speech protection, Privacy protection, Chargeback protection, Secure and principled.
SEARCH ENGINE ALTERNATIVES
Disconnect.me
Make the web faster, more private, and more secure. Disconnect lets you visualize and block the invisible sites that track your search and browsing history.
Duckduckgo.com
Duckduckgo is a standalone search engine that does not track you. It does not use cookies to follow users. It also does not collect personal information of users who use it. Even your IP address will be hidden during searching for results. It will protect even the search history from the company itself.
Ixquick.com
Ixquick uses around 10 different search engines to produce your result. It also comes with a standalone proxy service. Ixquick is also incorporated into quick and startup page search engines. This allows all users to open all search results via proxy. Private information and IP addresses are deleted within 48 hours of a search. Ixquick confirms that it does not share user information with other search engines or provider of sponsored results.
Startpage.com
Startpage.com was launched by Ixquick to offer its features with an easy to remember and spell URL. When compared with ixquick.com, stratpage.com fetches its results from Google’s search engine. This is performed without saving the IP address of the user or giving out any personal information out onto Google servers.
Both Ixquick and Startpage strip away personal information, so Google will not know your search for the results.
Gibiru.com
Giburu describe themselves as: Founded in 2009 by Internet Privacy advocates, Gibiru is the preferred Search Engine for Patriots. Gibiru is faster than the NSA Search Engines since it does not install all sorts of personalization and tracking cookies on your system.
Gibiru provides Uncensored and Unpersonalized Anonymous Web and News Results and is not partnered with the NSA so you can browse the Internet safely the way the Constitution would have intended.
Metager.de
MetaGer lets you make confidential untraceable searches that leave no footprints. It also integrates a proxy server so that you can open any link anonymously from the search result pages and yet keep your IP address hidden from the destination server. It also never tracks your keywords. This prohibits third parties or advertisers to target you for ads or any of malicious attacks. N.B – Its default language is in German.
Myprivatesearch.com
Privatelee.com
Searx.me
Searx is a free metasearch engine available under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, with the aim of protecting the privacy of its users.
Swisscows.com
Formerly Hulbee, described as the first intelligent answer engine, based on semantic information recognition and offers users intuitive help in their search for answers.
WIKIPEDIA ALTERNATIVES
Infogalactic.com
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