This listing collects a set of Free Software Applications which you can use as replacements and alternatives to default Android applications which are proprietary (nonfree) software. For example, you have a Xiaomi Redmi phone with set of applications such as Calculator, it will raise a question like "what is the free software replacement to this program?" and the answers are listed below. We wish this benefits to you all.

Why not proprietary software? See Why Not section at the end of this article with beneficial references you can learn.

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This tutorial will help you switch search engine from Google to Startpage.com on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat". This is a continuation to the previous tutorial Switch to DuckDuckGo to give you more good alternatives. We pick Startpage here because in reality we live with it for many years now, thanks to recommendation from many projects from within our community and we use it even more than DuckDuckGo. We wish the best for Startpage and you. Now let's try it out!

1. Run Firefox.

2. Visit startpage.com

3. Right-click the URL https://startpage.com -> Add "Startpage Search".

4. Click triple line button -> Settings -> Search.

5. Under Default Search Engine, select Startpage.

6. Done. 

Now write anything in the address bar or new tab's search and press Enter and you will get search results from Startpage. Happy searching!

7. To revert back to default, repeat 1-5 and select another choice.

Notes

This tutorial is based on Firefox. Thus, fortunately this is also applicable to any web browser modified from Firefox including Trisquel Abrowser, GNU Icecat and LibreWolf  etc.

References

You can do a research yourself to find the most privacy-respecting search engine and things related to it through our references below.  All links accessed Wednesday 28 August 2024.

Prism Break Project: Search Engine Chapter (*)

Privacy Guides Project: Search Engine Chapter

Privacy Tools IO Project: Search Engine Chapter

Free Software Directory: PRISM Chapter

Search Engine Party: Comparison Table of SEs

Wikipedia: Comparison Table of SEs

(*) They used to recommend Startpage in the past.

See Also

What if StartPage.com is blocked in your country? (Read to unblock and enable security for yourself) 

Our Recommended Privacy Tools for Ubuntu Users 2017 

CryptPad - An Alternative to Google Forms/Docs/Drive with Privacy

Codeberg - An Alternative to GitHub for Programmers without Microsoft

List of Free Software Instant Messenger Applications (Telegram, Signal, etc.)

List of Phone Brands Powered with Free Software

Help Quit Chrome 

Help Quit WhatsApp

PeerTube Intro for YouTuber Made Easy 

This tutorial will help you switch from Google to DuckDuckGo as default search engine your use on Ubuntu 24.04 or more precisely Firefox web browser. Today DuckDuckGo is an alternative search engine and very famous in the Free Software Community especially among the privacy-aware projects and people, for example, Tor Browser uses it by default, and so does other GNU/Linux distribution derived from Ubuntu, Trisquel. Now if you care about your privacy, after learning much about it, you might want to use it too. Let's try it out!

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Please welcome Cryptpad, an excellent Google Docs alternative from the free software community. For end-users, it provides online facilities of storage drive, text editor (pads), forms, spreadsheet, presentation, kanban boards, and a programming IDE. For self-hosting people, it is self-hostable with your own server and is able to integrate with OnlyOffice. Lastly, for everyone wanting to try it out, visit Cryptpad.fr to sign up and this article will help you getting started to it.

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