Qwant is owned by Huawei. Leaving Trumplandia pour Xi…
How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To
Submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-era-digital-expat/
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lseufer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
chakan2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Xi isn’t going to take me away to special education camps. They can have my data.
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 2 months 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.
RoosterBoy@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The Uyghers disagree.
Goretantath@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Pretty sure they already have detention centers wjere they send their “unwanted”.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You do sound special
OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Literally
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 months 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:
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Jean-Manuel Rozan
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Éric Léandri
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Patrick Constant
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Caisse des dépôts et consignations (basically a public investment institution owned by the French government)
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Groupe Axel Springer (an online media company based in Germany)
So again: why did you lie? What’s the goal here?
Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
That last bullet point is indeed a negative for Qwant.
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uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 2 months 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.
lseufer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
8 million convertible bounds in a company that hasn’t turned a profit. Sure no risk at all.
ColdWater@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The only us service I ever used nowadays is YouTube with extreme ad block ofc
marsNemophilist@lemmy.wtf 2 months ago
that cannot be true.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
tad_lispy@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Is this coming from Wired magazine, aka the press organ of silicon valley? Big wows.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
when shit really hits the fan europe will lose access to some if not all us based services.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Just pirate everything. Problem solved.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Not all online services are streaming media services. There are lots of other US services to get away from.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 months ago
For example?
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’d pirate a data center if I could
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Id download the whole damn thing, along with a car.