• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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    6 months ago

    One huge mistake that EU made was to rely on US equipment and software firms to build out infrastructure. I think there’s a bit of a recognition of that now with the push for using open alternatives like nextcloud, but that really should’ve been the approach from the start.

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      6 months ago

      Yes, in part. This is the reason because I prefer to use EU products in the ambit of privacy. Even so, the EU has pretty well forced large corporations to greatly restrict their surveillance practices, with respect to their services in the US. A good example is M$, with only 1 tracking cookie on its page in Germany, vs more than 100 trackers in M$ US

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              6 months ago

              Agree, but also soft and infrastructure in general. The EU has first-class products and only few of these are known. The only EU browser is Vivaldi (Norway/island), the other one, UR (French browser) is dead since years. Instead of this infamous Imgur spyware (which all people use), using for image and file sharing/hosting, the way better vgy.me (GB) FileCoffee (the best) NL, other companies like KDE (Germany), Proton (Suiss), Tuta (Germany), MetaGer search (Germany), etc… All of these are way more private than most US alternatives.