Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caM to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 days agoWhat are your success stories in switching to european alternatives?message-squaremessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up139arrow-down11
arrow-up138arrow-down1message-squareWhat are your success stories in switching to european alternatives?Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caM to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square17fedilink
minus-squareTaalnazi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-222 hours agoI’d also recommend these - and always use a paid VPN!: Mail: ProtonMail, Mailbox Cloud storage: Peergos (self-hosted), Translate: DeepL Taxi: just use public transit, or Bolt Software: Linux Phone: Fairphone (Google Pixel is claimed to be safer for privacy, but I still don’t trust Google) Maps: OsmAnd or OpenStreetMaps Browser: Firefox, Librefox (or the usual onion, if censorship is that bad) Search: Ecosia, Qwant, SearXNG (if you know how to self-host) AI Chat: Kobold.cpp or Ollama (latter downloads models automatically, but former is better elsewhere) Messaging: Signal, Threema, Wire More information here at Recommendations
I’d also recommend these - and always use a paid VPN!:
Mail: ProtonMail, Mailbox
Cloud storage: Peergos (self-hosted),
Translate: DeepL
Taxi: just use public transit, or Bolt
Software: Linux
Phone: Fairphone (Google Pixel is claimed to be safer for privacy, but I still don’t trust Google)
Maps: OsmAnd or OpenStreetMaps
Browser: Firefox, Librefox (or the usual onion, if censorship is that bad)
Search: Ecosia, Qwant, SearXNG (if you know how to self-host)
AI Chat: Kobold.cpp or Ollama (latter downloads models automatically, but former is better elsewhere)
Messaging: Signal, Threema, Wire
More information here at Recommendations