Buy European

Some of these products would not exist without their American counterpart, which directly fuel their existance.

Librewolf is just a hardened version of Firefox. It would not exist without the Firefox team continuing to develop Firefox and to fix its security issues.

Ecosia primarely uses Bing and Startpage uses Google for search results. Both would not exist without the search engines backing them.

I'm not saying these are bad products and I don't mean to criticiseze. I'm actually a librewolf user myself. I just think it is important to point out that the European label might be deceiving in this instance and might mislead people into thinking they are using something different than they actually are.

It might also not be so important. Perhaps focusing our energy on good open source projects and NGO-backed initiatives is desirable regardless of their origin?

idk food for thought

American telegram? 😂

EDIT I misunderstood the post, this is what you're using, not what you're recommending, sorry about that!
I will still include my original comment below.

Still, I use and can recommend XMPP and the provider magicbroccoli.de! Arne the admin is also a swell guy!

Bold move recommending US Signal over European Telegram!

I'd personally trust neither very much; one's US funded and the other clearly not as secure outside “secret chats”.

But what about Threema? Or a European XMPP provider like the excellent magicbroccoli.de?

I can highly recommend https://mapy.com/

Decent list, but I'd recommend Threema instead of Signal

Any good guide on RVX? I see plenty of websites of I search for revanced but I don't know which one is the official app

very nice, thanks for sharing

I haven't kept up with all the changes in core developers the last few years, but isn't Arch mostly American?

Arch isn't european though, it's canadian.

Signal was made in the US and paid for with US funding though?

Signal is based in California, but they're a nonprofit.

How can you tell someone is a Linux user? They will tell you, vocally, unprompted, and often with an infographic.

Not sure it's a good idea to recommend Arch Linux to newbies migrating from Windows; maybe prioritize Mint or similar?

Awesome stuff. Also don't forget European DNS companies like Quad9.

I would rather see people use Firefox than Vivaldi. We need a more diverse browser engine market to keep the web open. More here: https://better-tech.eu/web/article/switch-browsers/