Let's do another round of European alternatives to Big Tech, because we care and we don't gatekeep 🙂 :
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@GrapheneOS @david_bardos @kris @Vivaldi The reason is digital sovereignty.
@ocelot221 @david_bardos @kris @Vivaldi Digital sovereignty refers to government control over data, devices and services of people in the country. GrapheneOS exists to protect users against surveillance including from governments rather than working to enable it. We plan to protect our users from future authoritarian laws in countries where we operate including through willingness to move where we operate if that's ever necessary. /e/ has quite the opposite approach:
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@Vivaldi @protonprivacy @infomaniak_network @Mastodon @StartpageSearch @Qwant @ecosia @Mojeek @libreoffice @Tutanota /e/ and Murena have heavily pushed the narrative that protecting strong privacy and security protections primarily benefits criminals. They've repeatedly portrayed providing strong defenses for privacy and security weaknesses as being something not relevant to regular people. Computing devices need far better privacy and security to protect regular people.
@GrapheneOS @Vivaldi @protonprivacy @infomaniak_network @Mastodon @StartpageSearch @Qwant @ecosia @Mojeek @libreoffice @Tutanota
I think the main criteria of this post's recommendations was "European". I'm guessing GOS doesn't have that geographic requirement.
It's an odd choice to localize privacy recommendations on Vivaldi's part, as opposed to offering the most secure/runner up options.
Wouldn't recommend their phone/OS choices either.
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