Switching away from GOOGLE - Web browser and search engine alternatives

Google is pretty much embedded in all of our lives. I've grown more and more conscious about that over the last year, and I'd like to try something: de-googling most of my life. Consider supporting the channel : https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Watch Part 2: Remove Google Maps : https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/0d31d1b5-2a60-4d43-a42e-32ea3f8bd649 As of now, I use a few Google services: Google Photos, Android on my Galaxy S8, Google Maps, Gmail, and obviously YouTube. In this series, I'll try and find alternatives to these popular Google services, with a few conditions Web browsers There are quite a few browsers available on Linux, but almost every one of themr runs on Blink, Google's engine. Contributing to the hegemony of a single engine is obviously a choice I want to avoid, so choices are much reduced. In the end, the only credible choice out there with a strong engine is Firefox. It's free, open source, it renders webpages fast and while it's not exactly lightweigh