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blinfabian@feddit.nl to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 months ago

Some tech-related things I personally use instead of their american counterparts

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Some tech-related things I personally use instead of their american counterparts

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blinfabian@feddit.nl to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 months ago
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    no :D

    • gruzi1gais@lemmy.world
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      Seems startpage is partly owned by Americans (system1). Seems they own even more than 50%. So how can you say its eu search website?

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        i didnt know… its so hard to find a good search engine thats also european😭

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          Ecosia is good.

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            yea i switched back to ecosia instantly after learning what i just learned

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          I’ve had good results with Qwant so far, been using it for some months now.

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            i havent. so i’d rather use ecosia :P

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              Ecosia is worse when it comes to tracking and advertising tho, but their goals are most certainly admirable

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          https://better-tech.eu/search/article/search-engines/

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