Yes, but it turns out you can do a lot of 'switching' even if you can give up on android or iOS straight away. I follesdd this guide for degoogling my Samsung, not done yet but feels like I made some good changes: https://androides.nl/degoogle-guide/

Though large part is already covered by switching services / apps

[–] hejo@expressional.social 1 points 1 week ago

@huppakee @Snoopy

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/android

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/choosing-your-android-based-operating-system

https://eylenburg.github.io/android/_comparison.htm

[–] wanderColossus@lemmy.pt 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Isn't Waterfox quite slow on the updates?

I've been using LibreWolf, but I've been meaning to try out Zen

[–] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Zen has quite a steep learning curve, especially wjith workspaces and such. It’s a cool concept, but I switched back to Librewolf out of convenience and a leaner ux.

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[–] hejo@expressional.social 8 points 1 week ago

@FallenWalnut

• Operating system
OpenSuse

👉Here is explained: https://privsec.dev/posts/linux/choosing-your-desktop-linux-distribution

• Messenger
Simplex

[–] ueeu@social.vivaldi.net 8 points 1 week ago

@FallenWalnut

You do a great job! 👏 Thank you!

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

the legend is incomplete. what's red? what's the globe icon? how come some products marked not majority EU owned have the EU flag?

[–] rowanthorpe@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I will try to answer these, and hope someone corrects any potential innaccuracy:

what's red?

There is a comment there saying "see deep-dive for details" so the red-highlight caveat is likely explained there.

what's the globe icon?

My assumption is that icon just indicates Free/Open-Source projects which have no "owning company" (not "based" anywhere), just globally scattered contributors.

how come some products marked not majority EU owned have the EU flag?

My guess (merely a guess) is that those are run by EU-based companies, but which don't have a solid policy guaranteeing "majority of shareholders are in the EU" (...?)

[–] thesdev 1 points 1 week ago

how come some products marked not majority EU owned have the EU flag?

The EU flag is used here for the whole Europe (see the top-right corner), but "not majority EU owned" is specifically looking at the EU, which is very confusing. So Vivaldi being Norwegian and Canonical being British stick out.

[–] catsupercool2000@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This guide is weird. It suggests to replace US products by other US products

[–] Hichiro@jlai.lu 2 points 6 days ago

sometime it’s better, for example signal is more popular as an alternative and value more privacy. But if you want to go a step further then you can go use less popular tools.

I didn’t switch yet because I don’t own replace messenger and whatsapp by 3-4 new product..

[–] Shtef 3 points 1 week ago

I think federated vs cetralised should be a classification for social media platforms

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I made my own list of non-American browsers recently when trying to switch from Brave. It gets a bit murky with open-source projects that have global contributors (and sometimes anonymous creators) but here it is:

Cromite, Ungoogled Chromium, Vivaldi

Floorp, Waterfox, Librewolf, Zen

[–] pantherina 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Some really weird suggestions.

Free Software does not have a country of origin.

NixOS, uBlue, AerynOS poorly all rely on Github (Microsoft), but are far better distros than Ubuntu or Mint
Librewolf is better than Waterfox and way more common
Ecosia uses Bing, Kagi uses Yandex and is shady. Metager, SearX, Swisscows and more are actually good
Android, iOS -> GrapheneOS. No iodeOS, they are insecure and not comparable. Same for Fairphone and /e/OS. GrapheneOS is free software but also mainly in the US

[–] MischievousGT 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Can you ellaborate the Linux Distros? I'm considering switching from Windows to Linux and currently informing myself about the different distros. Why are they better than Mint and Ubuntu or what is wrong with them?

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Hi there, good luck! Maybe I can help.

I hyperfocused a bit on this question and made a structured post about it.

https://slrpnk.net/post/21305064

I hope you like it!

[–] MischievousGT 1 points 4 days ago

Thank you!

[–] pantherina 1 points 4 days ago

Sounds like a good suggestion!

[–] Zacryon 3 points 1 week ago

Profit Share missing for Ecosia.

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Great guide, thanks! Will start converting (where not already through with it).

Maybe someone can help with this topic: Is there any EU-based live map service (including traffic jams and road work and the likes)? I already use OSM but that doesn't (can't by design as far as I know) include live information.

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Try Here We Go (https://wego.here.com/), it is owned by a bunch of car companies.

[–] Bz1sen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Magic earth comes closest I guess. It has live traffic although in my opinion not on par with Google maps. Still, I am using it and am quite satisfied

[–] dexternemrod@troet.cafe 1 points 1 week ago

@Bz1sen

@ladicius

This or Nunav Navigation

[–] lIllIllIllIllIllIll 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is there a European Netflix or Youtube?

[–] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago

I think its called BitTorrent.

[–] mc@mastodon.ie 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

@lIllIllIllIllIllIll @FallenWalnut I believe Dailymotion is French but it's not great IMO. Search doesn't work well and not well localised.

[–] Wrdlbrmpfd 2 points 1 week ago

You could use the video search of Duckduckgo, so that you don't only get Youtube results.

[–] pantherina 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dailymotion is kinda good in Grayjay.app

Which is US-American but free software

[–] Eclippsiss@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I cannot recommend Internxt their software and servers are buggy.

The desktop app (on Linux at least) would give lots of errors and refuse to upload files. In addition some uploaded files were corrupted when trying to download them.

I like their idea and philosophy but at the moment their excecution is quite poor making the product unrealiable.

[–] Undertaker 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The incomplete guide...
Cryptpad, ONLYOFFICE, Fennec, Mullvad Browser, Librewolf, Thunderbird, FairEmail, SimpleX, Lemmy, Peertube

Bluesky? Wtf

[–] pantherina 1 points 1 week ago

Very true. Good products

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