• kambusha@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    1 hour ago

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

  • kronarbob@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 hour 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.

  • Linearity@infosec.pubEnglish
    5·
    2 hours ago

    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.

    • Señor Mono@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      1 hour 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.

  • jagermo@feddit.orgEnglish
    181·
    5 hours ago

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

  • Ray1992xD@feddit.nlEnglish
    2·
    3 hours ago

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

    • Señor Mono@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Absolutely, and they evaluate training AI on user content. It’s just a stopgap solution, I would always recommend mastodon instead.

  • gon [he]@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    4 hours 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.

    • simbico@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

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

    • gon [he]@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      4 hours 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

  • STØERENFRIED@feddit.orgEnglish
    5·
    5 hours ago

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

    • Bogasse@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      4 hours ago

      I think it’s about none of Firefox forks being slightly 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.

      • STØERENFRIED@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        38 minutes 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…

      • STØERENFRIED@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        36 minutes 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

    • Señor Mono@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      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.

      • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        So noodlejetskis comment below is wrong?

        Thanks for the info BTW, I’m an avid user and proponent of Signal (best out there today eh.)

        • Rene Raggl 🇪🇺 🇺🇦@mastodon.nl
          2·
          4 hours ago

          @Valmond @SrMono Most popular out there and one of the easiest to set up / easiest to convince non-tech users to switch over to. Not the best… For me, that award would go to Matrix / Element.

          Threema would be second (and should be first), but many will balk at the shocking fact that they dare to ask money to contribute to their development and operation costs…

          • Señor Mono@feddit.orgOPEnglish
            1·
            1 hour ago

            In terms of security I would go Matrix, Threema, Signal… in terms of usability I would say Signal, Threema, Matrix.

            Threema also has a Business line which helps to cover the cost, but yea… the price went up from 1€ to 5€. Back in the days I sponsored some licenses and spilled a bunch 1€ in the club like a rich man.

          • MischievousGT@feddit.orgEnglish
            4·
            4 hours ago

            What about SimpleX Chat? Comes without identifiers, is open source and not located in the US. Relay Servers are located in Germany, UK and Sweden and it’s possible to host your own. Last audit was in 2024. No metadata is stored. Fundings are handled very transparently and presentated on the Website.

            Not meaning to advertise it, just genuine interested in other peoples opinion.

    • noodlejetski@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      you can set up your own server for your own needs as far as I know, but you’ll probably have to build your own version of the client to connect to it. there’s no decentralisation.