Spotify shouldn't be on this list... They exploit artists and platform joe rogans horseshit for profit
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I would recommend deezer over Spotify. Spotify enables Rogan and all his bullshit
Qobuz! It pays artists the best out of any streaming service appartenly
How is deezer these days? Last time I used it is many years ago.
edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_Industries Access Industries owns Deezer. They invest in the US and Israel and have donated millions to republicans in the past.
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Why not use something like Matrix (Element) as a messenger alternative?
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Both Tuta and Proton have a free tier for their email. Also, I think Infomaniak's kmail might be an even better replacement for the typical email/cloud providers than the aforementioned, for normies at least.
Orion is not a paid browser. Kagi, however, is a paid search engine, and Orion was made by the Kagi team. The browser is completely free and is in all Apple OSs (coming to Linux soon) and gathers absolutely no data. And the browser comes with no search engine chosen by default so it isn’t really an ad for Kagi.
I personally think it’s amazing especially how you can have both Firefox and Chrome extensions on it. Its only issue is it being proprietary.
Orion was really well made. It is still beta, but when it is more stable, I'll give it a second go! 100% recommended.
Why Waterfox over LibreWolf? I have only used LibreWolf, which is my 99%-of-the-time browser, and I am curious.
Why does nobody ever remember about the Vivaldi browser?
It's also chromium based. But other than that it's european and a pretty cool browser!
What makes Vivaldi better than other Chromium-based browsers in terms of privacy and such?
Well, certainly not nobody, I hear it mentioned quite often on the internet! Just make sure to keep talking about it, if you want it to get more popular :D
After switching your search engine, hop into your European time-machine and go back to February to continue this guide.
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Again, add Matrix or xmpp instead of just Signal & Disroot as well in the email section
can anybody explain why people hate on Waterfox? I'm using it for over a year now and it's been great so far!
I think it's about none of Firefox forks being remotely capable of evolving on their own. So any large scale push to leave Firefox for any of these forks might only hurt Firefox which would in turn hurt its forks.
My insignificant opinion on the matter is that it's great to have different flavors of Firefox that might be better suited for you, but it doesn't appear to lead to a solution to the underlying issue.
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why people hate on Waterfox?
it used to be owned by an ad company, so I guess some people just don't want to put their trust back in yet
I would be more interested in why they didn't go with LibreWolf?
i tried librewolf about 2 years ago but it didn't quite work for me since it's high security settings were breaking the sites i visited :O
Breaks almost every site on the settings I've given it, by my design -- at least, until I grant the site some permissions. You don't get to run code on my browser unless I SAY you can!
In what way is mastodon privacy focused?
focused is not a good word for it but i do think it's fair to say that not actively milking you for data is caring about privacy these days.
Well, the flyer originated here: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1jcr8ks/here_is_the_new_and_improved_guide_to_help_you/ but mastodon stands out as it has no commercial driver. There aren't any ad-services profiling you, so that is a big win for your privacy.
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Is it possible to set up a signal server, or is it not completely FOSS?
Would my friends on signal be able to connect to that?
Maybe we're wrong but for the moment they're not interoperable.
But the new European DMA regulation requires platforms to be interoperable. Meta and Apple are obliged now to open up their apps to communicate with smaller rival apps such as Signal. Apps using XMPP may be allowed to communicate with other apps in the future, although this seems to pose some security risks.
Some information about the requirement for interoperability between messengers:
XMPP, for ex, is the protocol used by WhatsApp and Signal.
Whaaaa, really??
It isn't at all. It is closed source powered by an American non-profit organization.
You can consider this organization as friendly.
They recurrently said, they would shut the gates if U.S. government/law wants them to store more than metdata (phone number+last activity date) they are storing.
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Honest question, is Switzerland a part of the EU now, or do they just get a pass for being surrounded?
It's like norway, the only way in which they're not part of the EU is that they don't get to vote and they have a handful of exceptions to highly specific things, e.g. norway REALLY doesn't want to let anyone else tell them how to fish.
@RvTV95XBeo @SrMono No, but what is your gripe? Located in Europe. Spend most of their money in Europe and have the same general mentality. Strongly focused on privacy.
They are not an official member, but being surrounded by EU countries lead to them being included in a lot of treaties and such.
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These charts are pretty bad put a little more effort in
Yea, in hindsight the original (https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1jcr8ks/here_is_the_new_and_improved_guide_to_help_you/) was not worth sharing.
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