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There are: + Invidious, FreeTube, yt-dlp for music and videos + Internet Archive for loads more films, shows, music, University courses in their entirety, etc
by sourcepluck 3y ago
There are:
+ Invidious, FreeTube, yt-dlp for music and videos
+ Internet Archive for loads more films, shows, music, University courses in their entirety, etc
+ Metager/Qwant/Ecosia for search, Duckduckgo for image search
+ Anna's Archive, Libgen, etc, for books
+ External hard drives for storage
People apparently so concerned about ethics, I suggest considering setting up a monthly donation that goes out directly to people actually working on behalf of the public.
Depending what you're into, that could be the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Internet Archive, or any of I don't know how many other projects working on specific cool free software projects, operating systems, and the like. Tor, Blender, Guix, Debian, Arch, Freenet, MediaGoblin, Peertube, Mastodon. Whatever, there are tons of things.
If you give money to Google and Amazon (buying books on the Kindle) and tell yourself you're helping "creators", well, you might be falling victim to a vicious false dichotomy. Try this book, or a talk from Cory Doctorow about the book first to whet your appetite https://chokepointcapitalism.com/ https://chokepointcapitalism.com/