Jan HeisinenMar 17, 2025

Joining the #European #propaganda team. Here you go: a short guide on how to become a digitally sovereign European citizen.

#BuyEuropean #BuyEU #BuyFromEU #BuyFromEuope #BoycottUSA #BoycottAmerica #BoycottTrump #BoycottMusk #Europe #politics #EUpolitics #customer #digital #browser #AI #Mistral #Qwant #Threema #Ecosia #Vivaldi #Linux #LinuxMint #digitalEurope #digitalSovereignty #Tariffs #stopMusk #stopTrump #trumpism #EU #browser #ChatGPT #searchEngine #FederaliseEurope #ViveLaEurope

Show threadTomas ReesMar 18, 2025
@heisinen search -> @Mojeek or if you're looking for a DuckDuckGo alternative there is StartPage (default search engine for the Vivaldi browser)
Show threadJan Heisinen
@pheasant_plucker @Mojeek start page, after some redditors from r/#BuyFromEU made some digging, turns out not to be European. Stay with #Qwant or #Ecosia. The best what we’ve got right now. They have joined forces to make a #European search engine.
Mar 18, 2025 at 7:15pmWeb
Show threadTomas ReesMar 18, 2025
@heisinen @Mojeek mojeek is British - unless you don't count Britain as part of Europe?
Show threadzbrandoMar 22, 2025
@pheasant_plucker @heisinen UK withdraw from EU and EEA so can't guarantee the same law protection like GDPR. Also, UK is member of the Five Eyes.
Show threadTomas ReesMar 22, 2025
@zbrando @heisinen GDPR is incorporated into UK law
Show threadzbrandoMar 23, 2025
@pheasant_plucker @heisinen Thank you for the clarification, I read that they were thinking to opt out but clearly IR didn't happen.
Show threadTomas ReesMar 23, 2025
@zbrando @heisinen Certain right wingers would like that but they created so much other chaos that they never got round to it before losing the election. Could happen in the future though.
Show threadMojeek Search EngineMar 19, 2025
@heisinen @pheasant_plucker does that make Vivaldi not European then? Qwant and Ecosia are still using Bing and Google
Show threadPhil HöferMar 24, 2025
@heisinen @pheasant_plucker There's also https://metager.org (@MetaGer) which allows you to get combined results from the Google, Bing and Mojeek indexes on one result page. (And an integration of the European OpenWebIndex is in the works.)
MetaGer: Privacy Protected Search & Find

Search safely while having your privacy respected. The digital knowledge of the world must be freely accessible without paternalism and abide by states or corporations.

Show threadDomobert Dak   Apr 12, 2025

@heisinen @pheasant_plucker @Mojeek

The Reddit users dug too superficial. Otherwise they would have stumbled over a certain Politico article about Qwant.

Or to word it with a Star Wars quote: "You were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them!"

France’s Mr. Privacy turns cybersnooper

How the disgraced co-founder of France’s answer to Google moved into the murky world of cybersurveillance.

POLITICO
Show threadJan HeisinenApr 13, 2025
@domodak @Mojeek @pheasant_plucker this article is quite old. I'd like to know what the situation looks like nowadays, when much more people are using the web browser. Also, the question remains: "what else?"