12ft.io, because the sheer amount of nagwalls are getting absurd. I gladly subscribe to newspapers I frequently read, but without being able to check them out I wouldn't sub to any (or very few) of them.

Also tosdr.org . Not bad to have an idea what terms you're accepting...

https://search.marginalia.nu/ is a great little search engine for research. It favors results that would most likely be buried in the larger engines, excellent for finding lesser known sources.

Also the “random” button is a lot of fun, and fairly nostalgic if you remember the late 90s-early 00s web. Lots of geocities style personal websites still out there apparently.

The (only?) travel website with no bs
wikivoyage.org

newsminimalist.com

It's uses ChatGPT to work out which news stories are the most significant so it can show only the important ones. It's great and has been my main source of world news since I started using it a few weeks ago.

I use Firefox with temporary containers and a combination of DDG & Google to get around paywalls.

1. Once you have temporary containers installed in Firefox, find an article that's behind a paywall. I read the Financial Times, for example.
2. Copy the title of a story.
3. Open a new tab.
4. Search the story title in DDG using the g! at the end. For example, "Xi sees ‘progress’ in China-US ties at meeting with Blinken g!"
5. Find the story and click on it. Enjoy your read.

LibGen.is for books

Every Noise At Once: Recommend this website to find new music that suits your tastes. Play around with the options at the top, best way to see what they do.

Photopea.com, a free online Photoshop alternative