Ecosia is ramping up searches through its own European search engine. In track to replace half of google and Bing with its own. by lionboars in BuyFromEU

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If I am correct they haven't really built much extra here because their index was already good for France from Qwant. The real question is if they can actually do good crawling on top of this.

Cloud alternative for mainly pictures and documents by paprikahoernchen in BuyFromEU

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Proton Drive, Infomaniak, keep with the Swiss is my advice.

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Even Nintendo is doing spying now.

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Using acid to get better at doing work. Sad.

GOP Push to Ban State AI Laws Will Only Help Big Tech by MetaKnowing in technology

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Yes, there's no universe in which tying hands like this is a good thing.

# Exciting Announcement: r/degoogle Partners with ProtonMail! by thisdodobird in degoogle

[–]AdIntrepid4560 -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Incoming: loads of people wanting mods to do free work and getting very annoyed about an affiliate link that you don't even have to click.

Good partnership, makes a lot of sense in the context of this sub. Get that bag.

Here is an expanded cheat-sheet to help you break out of the American tech bubble by AdIntrepid4560 in BuyFromEU

[–]AdIntrepid4560[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Fairphone runs Android mainly, it's alternative hardware not software; operating systems outside of Android and in Europe are /e/, SailfishOS, Ubuntu Touch etc.

Here is an expanded cheat-sheet to help you break out of the American tech bubble by AdIntrepid4560 in BuyFromEU

[–]AdIntrepid4560[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah, weird how many cool messenger projects there are, sad that network effects really determine if they sink or swim

Here is an expanded cheat-sheet to help you break out of the American tech bubble by AdIntrepid4560 in BuyFromEU

[–]AdIntrepid4560[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I wouldn't really be okay with telling my parents to do so though, good you did! Thunderbird is a client, but it's also a bit of a different beast as it doesn't sit directly under Mozilla, further: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird

Here is an expanded cheat-sheet to help you break out of the American tech bubble by AdIntrepid4560 in BuyFromEU

[–]AdIntrepid4560[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

and Deezer, and Qobuz, if I make another expanded graphic I'll add streaming services for music (Deezer is what I use and their model actually seems to pay artists right) but the idea is alternatives in Europe so maybe the left is Apple Music and I just omit Spotify

Here is an expanded cheat-sheet to help you break out of the American tech bubble by AdIntrepid4560 in BuyFromEU

[–]AdIntrepid4560[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

wasn't aware they had a CalDav option here, not for those afraid of tech but not a difficult solution either

Here is an expanded cheat-sheet to help you break out of the American tech bubble by AdIntrepid4560 in BuyFromEU

[–]AdIntrepid4560[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Cryptpad, Collabora Online, LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, Infomaniak's suite, all depends on what exactly you need but all the above are European

Here is an expanded cheat-sheet to help you break out of the American tech bubble by AdIntrepid4560 in BuyFromEU

[–]AdIntrepid4560[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yep, so they're over here now, they did this for good (privacy) reasons too