How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To

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• TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Just pirate everything. Problem solved.

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Not all online services are streaming media services. There are lots of other US services to get away from.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      For example?

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  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’d pirate a data center if I could

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Id download the whole damn thing, along with a car.

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• lseufer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Qwant is owned by Huawei. Leaving Trumplandia pour Xi…

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  • chakan2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Xi isn’t going to take me away to special education camps. They can have my data.

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    • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      We are literally watching ICE kidnap people in the USA with legal resident status and deporting them or transferring them to detention centers, and somehow people are downvoting you.

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    • RoosterBoy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The Uyghers disagree.

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    • Goretantath@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Pretty sure they already have detention centers wjere they send their “unwanted”.

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    • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You do sound special

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    • OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Literally

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    • JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yet…

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Qwant is owned by Huawei.

    No it isn’t.

    Why are you lying like this? What’s the goal?

    Qwant is based in Paris and its owners are:

    • Jean-Manuel Rozan

    • Éric Léandri

    • Patrick Constant

    • Caisse des dépôts et consignations (basically a public investment institution owned by the French government)

    • Groupe Axel Springer (an online media company based in Germany)

    So again: why did you lie? What’s the goal here?

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    • Octagon9561@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That last bullet point is indeed a negative for Qwant.

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    • lseufer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      lefigaro.fr/…/le-geant-chinois-huawei-va-financer…

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  • uniquethrowagay@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Can you back that claim up at all? Qwant is not owned by Huawei. They don’t even hold shares as far as I can tell.

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    • lseufer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      8 million convertible bounds in a company that hasn’t turned a profit. Sure no risk at all.

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• ColdWater@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The only us service I ever used nowadays is YouTube with extreme ad block ofc

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  • marsNemophilist@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    that cannot be true.

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• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  archive.is/oRUQV

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• tad_lispy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Is this coming from Wired magazine, aka the press organ of silicon valley? Big wows.

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• reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  when shit really hits the fan europe will lose access to some if not all us based services.

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This is a weird line in the sand. Instead of focusing on where something is build, shouldnywe focus on technical details and software licenses?

  For example, Signal is based in the US, but the app is structured in such a way that they have minimal information: just the creation time and last login, associated with a phone number. That has even been tried in court, and that’s literally all they could provide. Telegram is worse technically speaking, but it’s headquartered outside the US.

  Don’t evaluate software based on where it’s developed, evaluate it based on what is does and can do in the future.

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