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[–] Lumelore@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Why do I never see SearXNG listed? It's FOSS and there's a bunch of different instances hosted in a variety of countries. You can even control what search engines it uses to aggregate its search results.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

given that it’s an aggregator, you’d want to ensure it aggregates from EU sources i assume, so it’s not a solution to the EU issue

[–] WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 hours ago

Ecosia uses google on the backend though.

[–] Lumelore@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I suppose, although it's not hard to have it aggregate from EU sources only. I know qwant uses Microsoft services so...

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 points 11 hours ago

sure, but the solution then isn’t searxng; it’s whatever it’s aggregating from

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 11 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I mean, in regards to the Browser. Neither Chromium nor Gecko are european, so it kinda boils down to: do you want to support google (then go with vivaldi) or firefox (librewolf, waterfox etc).

[–] vesi@lemm.ee 13 points 18 hours ago

Firefox obviously from these two.

[–] cheprofumo@feddit.it 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

If there’s not a better alternative to either, which would be best?

If all things were the same, I think I’d prefer Firefox over Vivaldi, but I’ve been using the latter assuming it helps our Norwegian friends more.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 points 18 hours ago

sure Vivaldi seems to be the more european choice, yet you will be bum fucked by google.

[–] FreeBird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

What about Matrix for communication? Element X is lovely.

[–] MischievousGT@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

Doesn't Matrix have a huge problem with metadata or am I not up to date with this?

[–] vesi@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

Threema is much much safer

[–] tatann@lemm.ee 5 points 18 hours ago

Even thought Vivaldi is european, it's proprietary, so at this point I prefer Cromite if it means using something chromium-based.