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Tech Guidlines For Europeans
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Is using a fork of something really an actual solution? It’s still enabling the dominance of the original corporation.
I dunno, maybe it is, but it sure doesn’t seem like it to me
You mean Vivaldi?
In specific for this, yes. But also in general
Also librewolf
Yup.
Don’t get me wrong, I really only use forks at this point, but that’s all they are, nor distinct browsers of their own
I’ve been using Vivaldi more and more. Been aware of it for years, even used it back in beta. It’s almost too kustomizable. It boarders on being an OS with how much is built in.
I wish that Vivaldi was open source and not proprietary.
I agree, but knowing it’s from Norway makes me feel more comfortable with the idea of using it than if it was made in the US…. (And I’m American…)
Vivaldi is based on Chromium. When Google kills manifest v2 in a few months, Vivaldi will be forced to follow. They can’t maintain a full fork. So, no more uBlock in Vivaldi.
I’ve been meaning to do more testing with it’s built in blocking. Guess we’ll have to see when the time comes.
if you want to test it by seeing how many ads do pages have after, I just want to point out that ublock is much more than an ad filter. you won’t notice by looking at the website if vivaldi does not block data mining content anymore
Fair enough. I also run a local pihole too with a fairly extensive lists. (~2.2mil). It’s mostly a concern for work. We have freedom of browser choices, but extensions are monitored. Though I can’t make use of pihole on my work laptop.
i too have a pihole but DNS based filtering is not much. ublock does not only limit the domains that can be reached. it limits which scripts and other resources can load, which outgoing data requests can proceed, what can a js script access and how will it see that, and all of that per-site so that it doesn’t need to use broad whitelists
From Wikipedia of Qwant:
Restructuring
In May 2019, Qwant announced that it would migrate its servers to an infrastructure based on Microsoft Azure, and also keep some of its indexing capacity on its infrastructure.[22]
Not only that, but they base their results almost entirely off of MS Bing.
So idk, but not that european other than data privacy.
Now it is working together with Ecosia on an Europan Search engine
both Qwant and Ecosia are working with Microsoft. Not so European.
Monocles is SearX, which basically is boogle, bing &c behind a shroud. Like Leta also is.
Mojeek is the only “European” alternative, it seems
if I recall right Ecosia and Qwant joining together to build a new Search Engine without the use of Bing and Google
+1 for Mojeek. I use it on a daily basis.
Mistral --> pseudo-open-source
Linux --> not relates to Europe (but amazing choice)
Vivaldi --> only source available
It is not only about being european but also about being digitally sovereign
Mistral sucks. Vivaldi is Chromium. Linux has terrible user experience.
it has a great UX, it’s just picky about who its users are
It’s awesome for software devs, sys admins, tinkerers. But that’s it. Most distros still have too many issues for me to recommend it to every Windows user.
What issues? And does Linux have more issues than Windows or different ones?
Often Windows has more issues, people have just gotten used to dealing with them.
No, Linux is also great for tech illiterate people who just need a browser and e-mail. It’s only hard for people who think they know computers but really only know some Windows
I agree with that for daily tasks it’s great and easy. It works until you try to connect an exotic device in the game or just use a external device most of the time you will have to do it manually or it will just doesn’t work.
I’m with you on the first two, but disagree on the last. To each their own I guess.
Okay, so go on… instead of only listing negatives, what are the alternatives to each of these that you use?
Librewolf is already listed. There are unfortunately no good alternatives to Windows and ChatGPT or Gemini.
If there isn’t a good replacement for windows, then we can clearly say in your opinion, there are no good operating systems.
So why not support the concept you believe in most?
Because right now it sounds like you’re just making excuses for Microsoft.
What Linux distros did you try, though? Some are explicitly less user-friendly than others. Also, how about Llama?
Librewolf is just some customized FF variation, so it’s from USA at the core. Same as Vivaldi, of course.
