1d ago

New version of the guide for change (I'm not the author)

Credits: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1jcr8ks/here_is_the_new_and_improved_guide_to_help_you/

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Honest question, is Switzerland a part of the EU now, or do they just get a pass for being surrounded?
- They are not an official member, but being surrounded by EU countries lead to them being included in a lot of treaties and such.
- Oftentimes they are considered friendly.

Where's the part suggesting getting off social media altogether, and stocking up on guns, ammo, and cans of beans?
- @skeptomatic @SrMono You find that aplenty over on Matrix...
  
  And in other communities. Also you misspelled beer.

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.
- Or Qobuz (both are french)

Is Waterfox the most recommended Firefox alternative nowadays after the recent Firefox controversy?
Also not sure I would call Proton privacy focused. I still use it, but they have been rating out an environment activist to French authorities before.

No Threema?
- Unfortunately, Threema will never be a real alternative because of the price tag. There are just too many good alternative that are for free. For example, Element is European, privacy-wise good and for free.

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.

In what way is mastodon privacy focused?
- 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.
  
  Yeah, but all your data is public, everyone can see it

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.

Why does nobody ever remember about the Vivaldi browser?
- What makes Vivaldi better than other Chromium-based browsers in terms of privacy and such?
- It's also chromium based. But other than that it's european and a pretty cool browser!
- 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

Kmail suite for mails, cloud... (Switzerland ) they have a free plan (15GO for the cloud, and the cheapest paid plan is 2e/month for 1TO (20e/year ).
Threema for discussions (Switzerland) . the application is 5e, definitv not cheap for an app, but it is a one time paiement.
Swisscows (Switzerland), mullvad Leta (Sweden) as search engine. => they do not use their own index system but brave or google (you can choose for mullvad)
All those options are Europeans and have strong privacy policies.

Ecosia also has a browser for Android and Windows/Mac. Just not Linux. Vivaldi is great for Linux.

@SrMono isn't bluesky also US owned
- Absolutely, and they evaluate training AI on user content. It's just a stopgap solution, I would always recommend mastodon instead.

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