Yes, it was already since big corps also released OprnSource, even more if also released AI made OpenSource or used LLM in coding.

Maybe some surprises:

https://alternativeto.net/lists/44427/slopware/

But always downvoting and even insulting me, when I say that nowadays OpenSource is guarantee of nothing anymore. OpenSource, same as proprietary apps, always with a grain of salt, it depends always of the author and his intentions and ethics respect the user, not on the license the product has.

If you copy an content from others sharing it as own work, they fry you with copyright claims. if am AI do it it's ok, because big corps want it this way. Means, no fuck AI, fuck big greedy corps.

I know, but the problem of Google isn't the index, the biggest out there, the problem is the SEO crap and the handling of it by logging your searches and showing the results by it (filter bubble), Google show you what you want to see, not what really is fact. Startpage, Whoogle and others use the Google index, but without all this crap, AI and filters.

The inbuild adblocker of the Vivaldi browser also do it, skipping the cookie advices with the selected (deselected) cookies (I don't care about Cookies and Easy list Cookie list filters), also by the settings in web page permissions.

Apart also by the filters of the Portmaster app which avoid that there enter any unwanted crap in the system.

I'm fien with Murena Workspace (France) and Filen (Germany) for Cloud, both OpenSource. I don't use VPN, only Cyberghost Proxy extension to skip country restrictions, maybe the SPN (multichannel VPN) of the Portmaster app, if needed one day

You can use MetaGer, Ecosia, Startpage, Mojeek, Qwant, specific page searches..... or all of these. if you want a deeper research. After more than a quarter of century I've anyway half the internet in my bookmarks and only use the websearch in few occasions, or for security checks of unknown URLs.

Cheaper? BS, the RAM of your PC cost cents to make. If you have the RAM online, you'll pay for every minute using it + your ISP for the bandwith, and they can leave you with an paperweight instead of an PC at any moment they want. Wrong, not even an PC, it's only a data terminal you own and pay for, less as an smart TV. Centralizing Internet even more in the hands of few billonair pedo-assholes and their AIs, with Datacenters in former Woods (see those in Finnland by Google), what can go wrong?

The Altman User Support Center

Billonairs are mainly rich, because they are emphatyless, selfish assholes which abuse others and their work, not so strange that they are also this way in sexual relations.

Motherfucker not, but sisterfucker https://www.thenerve.news/p/sam-altman-annie-altman-sexual-abuse-allegations-openai-ceo-civil-case-deposition-family-dismissal

"Oh yeah, nice to have all usercontent in our cloud and above the money the user paid to us for it. Now we also can turn the user PC in a paperweight if he don't pay us the monthly fe."

This asshole even abused sexualy his own sister since she was 3 years old and he 12.

Can we please ban Meta

Publish selfies and/or photos of the own children online and claim after it that someone or somewhat misuse these images, it's not thing of assholes, but of complete militarygrade idiots