Copy pasted straight from a post by /u/dark_shroud from https://voat.co/v/European/1482386/7196347 This is relevant because I'm paranoid af about getting tracked while doing research related to this.

I'll jump in to give you my current big list of alternatives. Because you're going to have to protect your digital ass. If you have Chrome installed than back up your favorites and un-install it using the freeware version of Revo Uninstaller .

If you weren't using a third party password manager than you'll want to change all your different passwords.

If anyone has more suggestions hit me with a reply.

Email:

• Protonmail

• Tutanota

• virtru - Free personal use, outlook encryption plug-in.

• Privacy-Conscious Email Services List

Secure Messenger Software:

• Telegram (My pick) - Similar to What's App only independent, secure, & on all major platforms.

• Signal - Secure FOSS messenger, only on iOS & Android.

• BBM - Old school with a big user base, fully encrypted, & a feed system.

Browsers:

• Brave (Blink) - by former Mozilla CEO. (My pick)

• Vivaldi (Blink) - by former Opera devs.

• Pale Moon (Goanna) - Firefox fork.

• Midori (WebKit)

Password Managers:

• Keepass

• LastPass

Search Engines:

• DuckDuckGo - privately uses Yahoo (Bing). Has " bang " options.

• StartPage - privately uses Google.

Youtube Alternatives:

• note: If you're a serious content creator than I suggest mirroring your channel on several of these:

• Live Leak (My pick) <- Post your videos here so they don't get deleted/censored.

• vimeo <- A lot of original artistry content.

• Vid.me <- Mirror every video here.

• Gvid - An experiment for a low cost, content neutral replacement for Youtube.

• metacafe

• veoh

Alernate DNS: (Use one of these to help avoid various "filters" on European internet.)

• OpenNIC project

• OpenDNS

Mobile OS Alternatives:

• BlackBerry, Powered by Android

• Cyanogen OS

Social Media alternatives:

• Diaspora.com (My pick)

• Gab.ai - Twitter alternative, waiting list to join.

• Movim

• GNU social

• Voat.co - Reddit alternative.

Alternet web technology:

• I2P - The invisible internet project. Similar to TOR only more secure.

• ZeroNet - Peer to Peer, Open, free and uncensorable websites.

• IPFS - A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol.

• Matrix - Matrix is an open standard for decentralised communication.

VPNs & Miscellaneous:

• Infogalactic - A wikipedia alternative

• Greycoder - Privacy information & tech including VPNs.

• Prism Break - Privacy information & software.