@Vivaldi I would also add #infomaniak from Switzerland. Among other things, they offer email and cloud storage services. 19€ per year for 1 TB is amazingly cheap in my opinion.

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The mentioned Search engines here still use Bing/Google as there index from what I researched. Ecosia and Qwant are working on their own index but @Mojeek (UK) seems like the only one producing their own results. I am trying Mojeek for the first time, so far so good.

@Vivaldi Us Americans like privacy, too:

🔍 DuckDuckGo - Bing-based anonymous search engine, based in Pennsylvania, U.S.
🔒 Private Internet Access - A VPN that is now London-based, but was founded by an American.
🔒 Norton VPN - Owned by Norton, a brand by Gen, whose main headquarters are in Arizona, U.S.
☁️ MediaFire - Anonymous file-sharing service, based in Texas, U.S.
☁️ TrueNAS - Cloud storage with privacy options, based in California, U.S.

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Tuta Mail for E-Mail and calendar 🇩🇪
Zeitkapsl for photo storage 🇦🇹
Filen for Cloud Storage 🇩🇪
Proton Pass as a password Manager 🇨🇭
AliasVault as a password Manager 🇳🇱
DeepL for translating 🇩🇪

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also include OceanHero, as they're based in Germany! 🐳

@Vivaldi has their partnership with @protonprivacy but for everyone else, I'd caution against engaging.

"The privacy company" not only made sure they wouldn't miss out on joining the crypto wave, they are also proudly keen on feeding your data to LLMs (but... Privacy like).

They also sounded a bunch of dog whistles with their "election freedom" publicity stunt campaign and... Wasn't their CEO publicly praising trump a while back or something?

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#arubahosting for could and #actalis for SSL certificates: both italian companies.

@Vivaldi @StartpageSearch @Qwant @ecosia @protonprivacy @jottacloud and @GrapheneOS to get rid of a surveillance Android system and get back to Freedom with a Free Android, a deGoogled Android 😉

@Vivaldi
Boosted and bookmarked this list of European alternatives for online functions.

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Is there a good alternative to #kagi?

(No, #Kägi isn't 😂.)

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European Alternatives.
Why is Metager search not mentioned
You also conveniently forget
Disroot.org which offers a lot of services and
Posteo for Email.

I think antiX Linux also deserves a mention, much of the development of my favorite Debian derivative is done in Greece.

Just want to add Qwant and Ecosia are currently developing a independent search index to break from Google/Bing

https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2024/11/08/ecosia-and-qwant-join-forces-to-develop-european-search-index/

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@StartpageSearch is a pain in the ass. Sponsored results consume most of the content above the page fold. First thing I change when I install Vivaldi ,since it seems to be your search engine of choice

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@Vivaldi isn’t @StartpageSearch just a sort of proxy/front end for Google and Bing results?

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I find it interesting that your browser is proudly anti-generative AI, yet several companies on this list are using that same technology.

@Vivaldi Startpage originated from the Netherlands, but now owned by a US based company.

@Vivaldi @mullvadnet VPN from Sweden.

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