OldSchoolSearch
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Take Back Your Everyday Internet.

Private search. Source-aware news. Manipulation-free shopping. A scan of who has your data. Tools for the everyday internet — without the surveillance.

Start Free → Try Private Search → View Plans →
No tracking No ads Honest subscription Search remains free

OldSchool Suite

Everyday internet tools that work for you.

Private search, source-aware reading, safer shopping, data exposure checks, household protection, and real-world safety tools — without surveillance funding.

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Everyday Internet

OldSchool Search Live

Search without being profiled

Private search without your queries becoming someone else’s inventory.

No tracking No ads
Search privately →
OldSchool News Live

Read without being captured

Paste a story, claim, or URL. See framing, missing context, and source patterns.

Source-aware Decision-support
Check a story →
OldSchool Shop Live

Shop without manipulation

Spot fake reviews, price tricks, and product-page patterns designed to steer you.

Fake-review signals Price patterns
Analyse a product page →
OldTube Live

Watch privately

Use a privacy-respecting YouTube frontend without tracking or recommendation capture.

No algorithmic feed RSS-friendly
Open OldTube →
02

Your Data & Home

MySovereignHome Sister product

Protect your household

Audit devices, services, platforms, and household data dependencies with guided setup.

No-code audit Cross-domain
Start household audit →
OldSchool Apps + Browser Live

Choose less-extractive tools

Find safer apps and harden your browser against the defaults that leak attention.

Curated apps Browser guide
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Real-World Protection

FeedMeSafe Sister product

Stay safe in real life

Generate an allergen QR card a restaurant can read in nine languages, so the important details do not get lost at the table.

Allergen QR Not a medical device
Create allergy QR →

Why we charge

If a product is free and surveillance-funded, you become the inventory. OldSchool is funded by optional subscriptions and one-time supporter plans so that search can stay private and free, the deeper tools can keep getting deeper, and we never sell your data, your queries, or your attention.

Honest subscription, plain words

Two business models that look similar on the surface and produce opposite outcomes.

Surveillance-funded

  • You are the inventory.
  • Your queries train someone else's model.
  • Your data is sold or "shared with partners."
  • Engagement is the product, not your interest.
  • Free at the surface. Costly underneath.

You-funded (OldSchool)

  • You are the customer.
  • Your queries are not retained or sold.
  • No ads, no trackers, no data brokers.
  • The tool serves your decision, not the platform's.
  • Free where it can be. Subscription when work is real.

How the paid suite works

Pricing in pounds sterling. Lifetime tier is capped at the first 500 founders.

Free

Start Taking Control

£0 forever
  • Unlimited private search
  • Limited daily News checks
  • Limited daily Shop checks
  • Weekly OldSchool Me scan
  • FeedMeSafe basic profile + QR
  • Browser/privacy setup guides
Start Free →

Plus

Daily Protection

£3 / month
  • Higher daily News & Shop checks
  • Daily OldSchool Me scan
  • Saved reports + history
  • Personal Bullshit Detector lite
  • CognioNews Prime digest-lite

Founder Lifetime

Own Your Tools

£119 one-time
  • Everything in Suite, forever
  • Founder badge on the forum
  • Direct line to roadmap input
  • First access to new tools

Capped at the first 500 founders.

The OldSchool stance

The web used to be a place you visited. Now it visits you — through advertisers who never asked, brokers you never met, and platforms that grade your attention by the second.

OldSchool is the other path. Tools that are private by default, honest about what they can and cannot do, and funded by the people who use them. We are not building a moat. We are building a way back.

If you cannot steward your search, your reading, your shopping, your likeness, and your home, you cannot quite steward yourself. We think the everyday choices add up to a sovereign one.

— The OldSchool team

Trust and limits

We are deliberately careful about what we promise. OldSchool tools help you identify patterns, risks, and missing context. They are not certifications, guarantees, or substitutes for professional advice.

See the paid tiers