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Give me some European alternatives to my apps

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[โ€“] e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social 79 points 2 days ago (3 children)

please donโ€™t use brave, itโ€™s just bloatware:

https://piefed.social/c/opensource/p/1649276/you-need-to-stop-using-brave

sorry, i can not offer you a european alternative at this point. there might be, i just donโ€™t know

[โ€“] CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Vivaldi's a good European web browser

[โ€“] unknowablenight@piefed.social 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It is Chromium, however, and not fully Open Source. I recommend Librewolf or Waterfox, open source forks of firefox.

[โ€“] imjustmsk@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

OP posted an android homescreen.

[โ€“] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] greendog@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm still pretty new to the foss community (just installed Linux Mint on a VERY old computer so I can get some experience under my belt!) But I was wondering if you knew of a way to download Waterfox without using the Play Store? Thanks!

[โ€“] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 1 day ago

I don't know where they release it tbh, i use Fennec on mobile which removes the mozilla tracking from Firefox just like Waterfox does, but you can install it from f-droid

[โ€“] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Zen browser, while privacy isn't its main focus, has an awesome user interface and a bunch of QoL features and I ended up switching from Firefox.

[โ€“] imjustmsk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

you can install Ublock origin for the privacy, and change a couple settings to make it on par with librewolf

[โ€“] doctorflynt@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

also no inbuilt ai as far as i know.

[โ€“] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

~~Zen is Windows-only~~

Edit: I checked their web and they do have a Linux and Mac version, but the other versions are pretty hidden.

FWIW, itโ€™s not only on Linux but Mac as well.

[โ€“] tamlyn@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

Zen is on Linux as well, i'm using it on Linux

[โ€“] grinka@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Maybe replace Brave with Cromite (assuming that OP needs Chromium based browser)? I'm not sure if Cromite is European but it's not controlled by a company and it's FOSS

[โ€“] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You have frdroid, fennec for fdroid(a build of firefox without the proprietary stuff) is probably the best browser you can use. Brave is full of bloat, crypto, etc, the ceo also funds anti gay orginizations. Install a few extensions like ublock, decentralize, sponsorblock, etc and youll get the best web experience that is currently possible.

[โ€“] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 1 points 1 day ago

similarly, kagi funds brave so less directly funds all the same stuff as them

[โ€“] blinfabian@feddit.nl 13 points 2 days ago

Brave๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ -> Vivaldi๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด, Qwant๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท, Ecosia๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช, Mojeek๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง, Waterfox๐ŸŒ

Tiktok๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ -> Loops.video๐ŸŒ

Kagi Translate๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ -> DeepL๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช (but from my experience kagi is wayy better)

What's the grayed out one?

[โ€“] Staff@piefed.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What is TikTok doing there.

[โ€“] nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Does it matter? The question is whether there is an alternative. I donโ€™t know of any, but I have no need for tiktok-like apps anyway.

[โ€“] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There are alternatives, but nothing on a large scale. Video hosting is really expensive and hard to monetize. Loops would be the largest.

[โ€“] Staff@piefed.world 2 points 2 days ago

I actually read the post wrong tbh. Thought this was a list of European alternatives.

[โ€“] tirateimas@lemmy.pt 4 points 2 days ago

I would start with

  • Brave -> Vivaldi
  • Tiktok -> No Tiktok (wtf)
  • Kagi Translate -> DeepL

These are the easy ones; then you can consider moving others.

[โ€“] Gork@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

Camera could be replaced by a European camera maker like Leica.

[โ€“] yuumei@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Alternative to Ente is Immich which I have recently set up. You need to run your own server but itโ€™s 100x better and itโ€™s open source

[โ€“] degooglerleon@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

I really want to stop using Ente and start using Immich (overall, I want to self-host a lot of services with a server in my own home), but right now I'm not in a position to set up that server yet. Do you have any other alternatives to Ente that don't require self-hosting?

[โ€“] dieTasse@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Just FYI both ente and immich are US based, open source and both can be selfhosted. I tried both and they are both good.

[โ€“] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If no data reaches the US (because it's self hosted) and no money goes to the US (because it's open source), does it matter that the developers are in the US?

[โ€“] dieTasse@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

It probably doesn't, and that was not my point. I am okay using US soft if it's open source. That said US based project might be under certain pressures from the govt which adds a slight amount of uncertainty.

[โ€“] xcel@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[โ€“] dieTasse@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Yes and they made it super easy. I mean kudos to ente basically making it easy not to pay them (I pay them anyway ๐Ÿ˜€)

[โ€“] lena@gregtech.eu 1 points 2 days ago

https://ente.com/help/self-hosting/

Yup! I run it on my VPS for my family with an Exoscale S3 bucket, it's excellent. I only pay for the storage we use.

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