You can’t build public toilets every 50m and make sure it stays clean. Anything further than 50m and a drunk person will just piss to the next wall/bush/corner as they can’t be bothered with finding a proper restroom in many cases. Its not as simple as you make it out to be.

I wish they had an official Linux client. I’d love to support them but I just buy products from services that cater towards me and my OS and don’t inconvenience me.

No, the EU council and parliament will just discuss it AFAIK. They are not bound to follow up with legislature, as thats still up to the lawmakers.

Yeah I agree. I went from Google -> Startpage -> Qwant and I’ve been getting pretty good results honestly. Couldn’t be happier. Only thing bugging me now is them, wanting me to install their browser extension when using Firefox but I just blocked that with uBlock

I mean I get that that freaks you out but as long as I can turn it off I wouldn’t base a buying decision on this. But if the general vibe doesn’t fit then it just doesn’t fit, I get that.

Can’t you just turn the keyword thing off?

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

I mean its not American but certainly not private

Ecosia is actively developing their own search index together with Qwant. They are rolling out French and German results this year actually. AFAIK only like Mojeek and like Swisscow have their own search index (as well as Brave which is US based). But their current search results aren’t really that great which is why I will stick to Qwant.

I also don’t fully trust Brave because of their whole crypto involvement but their search engine is pretty good from experience and definitely much better in terms of privacy than google.

Startpage got bought by System1 in 2019. System1 is an American advertising company. I personally use Qwant for privacy reasons - They’re also in the process of building their own search index together with Ecosia.

I think its easier to switch from generally that to LibreOffice, but the company driving OnlyOffice is russian so I’d prefer a community driven project like LibreOffice tbh.

No, the article specifically mentions on how to get to this site from the steam client.

You mean Murena?

I thought Oral-B is also part of Proctor & Gamble

Seems like the mods from r/buyfromeu on reddit don’t really want european alternatives to win when it means them leaving their subreddit in favor of something actually european

This is about localization, not about renaming the thing

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When I check the subreddits from my country its mostly left content. I really don’t have that feeling although I think its not as politically onesided as it is here

Maybe you could take a two way approach. Have a small set of default instances and then a button that gives the option to choose in the beginning. Like a mixed approach but I don’t like the idea of consolidation on the fediverse

The EU. I don’t use google search. I use a degoogled android rom firefox and only use the bare minimum of google search engines. I think the government should promote conditions where fair competition against google is actually possible.