Privacy-Respecting European Tech Alternatives [privacyguides.org]

[vk6flab@lemmy.radio]

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/25342439

[zerush@lemmy.ml]

It's good to name OpenSource alternatives, but currently it's more important to push generally EU products and services. The EU need to get independent as much as possible from the US IT hegemony.
There are published several webs with EU alternatives, eg. this one from Portugal

https://www.escolho.eu/digital/

[vk6flab@lemmy.radio]

Not just the EU, the rest of the world. The whole point of OSS was to distribute knowledge across all of humanity, not just be used as a way to make trillions of dollars in profits by a few billionaires working off the backs of OSS developers.

[zerush@lemmy.ml]

Yes, this was the the sense of FOSS in origen, buy not since big US companies, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, META, etc., appropriated FOSS, offering most of their products, even implementing their FOSS APIs in others (see Mozilla). Gogle with its Google Code and Experiments, Microsoft in Github.....this is dominance and FOSS gives them a cheap method in achieving it.
I speak of independence of the US market, outside its influences, especially these globalplayers. This is why it is necessary to promote EU products, preferable FOSS, yes, but even if not, it is way better in privacy and user rights, by law, non -existent in US products.
I am already bored of seeing in FOSS, which requires an account, the poster "Log in with Google". The time of My little Pony under the FOSS rainbow has gone since time, now it is Google and the US which control 80% of the web and with this hegemony it is urgent to end.