So in my slow process of de-googling my internet experience, I noticed something. Startpage, which piggy-backs off Google's search engine, won't show the actual website for https://vid.me/ , but Duckduckgo will...

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@RandomASCII i am trying to de-google too and have been using start page exclusively now. what other steps are you taking, i am daunted by prospect of moving from gmail and also hardening / de-googling android device
@mlk So far, I'm not using Google+ anymore, my main email is through a service called Proton Mail, I plan to root my phone and install a custom rom, I'm moving all the files I have on Google Drive somewhere else, and recently, I'm looking into alternatives to YouTube.