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[–] EuroCentrist@feddit.org 1 points 19 minutes ago

Why not use something like Matrix (Element) as a messenger alternative?

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Spotify shouldn't be on this list... They exploit artists and platform joe rogans horseshit for profit

[–] nuko147@lemm.ee 1 points 32 minutes ago

And i think they donated money to Trump also.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Again, add Matrix or xmpp instead of just Signal & Disroot as well in the email section

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Honest question, is Switzerland a part of the EU now, or do they just get a pass for being surrounded?

[–] rraggl@mastodon.nl 2 points 2 hours ago

@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.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

They are not an official member, but being surrounded by EU countries lead to them being included in a lot of treaties and such.

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Oftentimes they are considered friendly.

[–] skeptomatic@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Where's the part suggesting getting off social media altogether, and stocking up on guns, ammo, and cans of beans?

[–] rraggl@mastodon.nl 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

@skeptomatic @SrMono You find that aplenty over on Matrix...

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

And in other communities. Also you misspelled beer.

[–] rraggl@mastodon.nl 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SrMono@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

Mispelled it myself and corrected it 🍺 Coffee wouöd have been wiser.

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I would recommend deezer over Spotify. Spotify enables Rogan and all his bullshit

[–] Kualdir@feddit.nl 6 points 1 day ago

Qobuz! It pays artists the best out of any streaming service appartenly

[–] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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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[–] Linearity@infosec.pub 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 3 points 22 hours ago

Orion was really well made. It is still beta, but when it is more stable, I'll give it a second go! 100% recommended.

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

After switching your search engine, hop into your European time-machine and go back to February to continue this guide.

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 1 points 21 hours ago
[–] gon@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why does nobody ever remember about the Vivaldi browser?

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

What makes Vivaldi better than other Chromium-based browsers in terms of privacy and such?

[–] simbico@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

It's also chromium based. But other than that it's european and a pretty cool browser!

[–] gon@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] RedPandaRaider@feddit.org 1 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] CreativeCider@feddit.org 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] NewDay@feddit.org 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] NewDay@feddit.org 1 points 29 minutes ago

That is a nice protocol. If you are interested in messenger then translate this page via an extension https://www.kuketz-blog.de/die-grosse-messenger-uebersicht-kompakt-kritisch-direkt/

[–] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

In what way is mastodon privacy focused?

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but all your data is public, everyone can see it

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

You can set a deletion time and hope that every client comply with that :-)

[–] AEGIS2317@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

can anybody explain why people hate on Waterfox? I'm using it for over a year now and it's been great so far!

[–] RandomPrivacyGuy@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] Bogasse@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] AEGIS2317@feddit.org 1 points 21 hours ago

thanks for that answer so we should all continue supporting firefox, as it helps it's forks too? i mean they are still a non profit but they have been doing weird stuff lately..

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would be more interested in why they didn't go with LibreWolf?

[–] AEGIS2317@feddit.org 3 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Is it possible to set up a signal server, or is it not completely FOSS?

[–] ueeu@social.vivaldi.net 4 points 1 day ago

@Valmond @SrMono

If you want to selfhost your own messenger, you can with Matrix or XMPP. XMPP, for ex, is the protocol used by WhatsApp and Signal.

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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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[–] kronarbob@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] ray1992xd@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Last time I read here that Tidal is American. Which is it then?

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