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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · Jun 1

Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer (& Windows licence) this year.
Don’t fall for it.
Just consider a switch to #Linux. Not familiar with it? Don’t worry about 100’s of different flavours, just get ahead with a starter-friendly ‘distribution’ like #ZorinOS or #Mint.
#EndOf10 #Windows10 #EU_OS

openSUSE @opensuse.org · May 27

#Linux is stronger together. 💚 The #Endof10 campaign unites communities to help users keep their #devices and make the switch to Linux; not the landfill 🌱
Join the movement like us & have an #Endof10 event. #UpgradeToFreedom #openSUSE endof10.org

End of 10

Windows 10 ends in 2025. Don’t buy a new PC — revive yours with Linux. It's fast, secure, and help is available to get you started.

endof10.org

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Blue Fox Moon @bluefoxmoon.bsky.social · Mar 21

Great list of alternatives

#degoogle #bigtech #digitalexpat #protectedspeech #bigtechexit #boycottUSbillionaires

www.wired.com/story/trump-...

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

Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.

www.wired.com

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ENCRYPTED @encryptedalways.bsky.social · Sep 9

Google tracks you across the web, tracks what websites you visit, tracks your location and device hardware, model, and brand. They even scan your emails and anything you input into their services.

Google is the biggest data collector.

And you still trust them?

#DeGoogle #Privacy #Freedom

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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · Jul 9

#BuyEuropean stickers are now available at cost price (we don’t want to make profit, just to #SpreadTheMessage) via ko-fi.com/buyeuropean/...

Shipping cost can be lower if you contact by PM, b/c had to put a general price tag rather than spending 2 days specifying for each country and weight

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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · Jul 12

Going on holiday? There’s a whole lot of good #European #navigation apps. 🇪🇺 💪 👇

🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · Apr 14

Drive and navigate European 🇪🇺

❌ 🇺🇸👎 Google maps, Apple Maps, Waze, Bing Maps ❌

✅ 🇪🇺👍
🇳🇱 Flitsmeister
🇳🇱 HERE WeGo
🇳🇱 MagicEarth
🇳🇱 TomTom Go
🇩🇪 NUNAV
🇨🇿 Mapy.com
🇪🇪 OrganicMaps
🇸🇰 Sygic
🇪🇺 OsmAnd
#Navigation #Traffic
Question: which of these apps include mobile speed camera (and other) alerts?

Mapy.co

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Forget #GoogleMaps. OpenStreetMaps forever 🗺️ 💪 @cosmogenetic.bsky.social · 1d

Skip the ads, map the truth! 🗺️
#OpenStreetMap is built by people like you - open, accurate, and free. But not complete yet.
Start #mapping your world today 🌍
With useful tools like every-door.app, GoMap! or mapcomplete.org
#OpenData #OSM #Community #DeGoogle

MapComplete - editable, thematic maps with OpenStreetMap

MapComplete is a platform to visualize OpenStreetMap on a specific topic and to easily contribute data back to it.

mapcomplete.org

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Søren N @kgbhandler.bsky.social · 2d

@buyeuropean.bsky.social now that flu sesason is upon us, are there any alternatives to kleenex (with balm) ? I have not been able to find any

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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · May 27

#BuyEuropean. Quit your dependence on the United States of Arrogance. Groceries:

✅ 🇪🇺💪
Heineken 🇳🇱
Danone 🇫🇷
Unilever 🇳🇱 🇬🇧
Carlsberg 🇩🇰
Nivea 🇩🇪
Evian 🇫🇷
Pernod Ricard 🇫🇷
AB InBev 🇧🇪
Henkel 🇩🇪

❌ 🇺🇸👎
PepsiCo
Procter & Gamble
Mars
Mondelez
Coca-Cola
Colgate-Palmolive
Johnson & Johnson
General Mills

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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · 6d

Another easy way to improve maps yourself: bsky.app/profile/buye...

🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · 8d

Still using #GoogleMaps? Time to #deGoogle & #GoEuropean 🇪🇺💪
1️⃣ Use 🇪🇺 maps: buy-european.net/en/alternati...
2️⃣ Help to improve 🇪🇺 maps. Most are based on #OpenStreetMap, so contribute to #OSM.
Quick start:
a) create OSM account:
www.openstreetmap.org/user/new
b) Use every-door.app to [1/x] >>

Sign Up

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

www.openstreetmap.org

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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · Sep 4

The best moment to quit American tech in favour of European tech was long time ago.
The second best moment is NOW.
#BuyEuropean #DigitalSovereignty #EuropeFirst #degoogle #privacy

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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · 4d

schermtijdteller.groene.nl

De Politieke Schermtijdteller - De Groene Amsterdammer

Wie wint de strijd om schermtijd? De Groene en Data School volgen live talkshows en nieuwsprogramma’s en tellen welke politici het vaakst op tv verschijnen voor de verkiezingen van 2025.

schermtijdteller.groene.nl

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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · 4d

The worst nightmare for the #EPP: people eating plants.
Because eating plants is an insult to farmers who grow those corps.
Or something like that. 🤡

Euractiv @euractiv.com · 4d

Parliament pushes for ‘veggie burger’ ban

Lawmakers back stricter labelling for meat alternatives

dlvr.it

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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · 4d

Exactly. #BuyEuropean 🇪🇺 💪

For (almost) every American product or service, there’s a suitable #European alternative: buy-european.net/en/alternati...

And if there isn’t yet, help to create a market for that, #BuyEuropean 🇪🇺 💪

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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · 4d

For example @bnr.nl , that does include links to all their profiles on the usual ragebait platforms for foreign election interference, buy does not include a link to their Bluesky account.

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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · 10d

European #DigitalSovereignty (or the lack thereof) starts with all those primary & secondary schools that order or prescribe laptops with only American software.
Schools, take more responsibility! 🇪🇺
#education #school
- phys.org/news/2025-06...
- nos.nl/artikel/2370...
- dig.watch/updates/germ...

New research warns of digital dependency in primary schools

Danish primary schools have become dependent on Google technologies. This threatens privacy, democracy, and educational autonomy, according to a new study from the University of Copenhagen.

phys.org

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Jul 18

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

Getting off US tech: a guide

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

www.disconnect.blog

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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · 23d

📺 Also today, is a great moment to finish your #DisneyPlus subscription and try some European alternatives 🇪🇺💪
#AlienEarth #Ratatouille #LiloStitch #Thunderbolts #TheNewAvengers #SnowWhite #Coco #InsideOut #Elio #Tempest #OMITB

🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · 24d

❌ 🇺🇸 Streaming platforms to end your subscription:
❌ DisneyPlus
❌ Netflix
❌ AmazonPrime
❌ HBO+
❌ AppleTV

✅ 🇪🇺 European alternatives, to name a few. Start TODAY with:
🇸🇪 ViaPlay
🇫🇷 Canal+
🇩🇪 RTL+
🇩🇪 Joyn
🇬🇧 DAZN
🇫🇷 Pathé Home
🇳🇱 Videoland
🇳🇱 CineTree
🇫🇷 ARTE
🇪🇺 And many more: buy-european.net/en/category/...

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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · 4d

@hardno-eu.bsky.social

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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · 5d

#BuyEuropean, also at work. 🇪🇺💪
Check, design, print and hang some of these great customisable posters from @hardno-eu.bsky.social at
hardno.eu and support #European #business
#GoEuropean #DigitalSovereignty #Europe

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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · 5d

Mooi om te zien 😀
Veel succes en plezier morgen! 🇪🇺💪

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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · 5d

#BuyEuropean, also at work. 🇪🇺💪
Check, design, print and hang some of these great customisable posters from @hardno-eu.bsky.social at
hardno.eu and support #European #business
#GoEuropean #DigitalSovereignty #Europe

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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · 5d

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Euractiv @euractiv.com · 6d

EU must seize ‘unique opportunity’ to supplant US dollar dominance, says ECB president

“Geopolitical shifts and heightened policy uncertainty remind us that no currency's global position is guaranteed," Christine Lagarde told EU policymakers

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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · 5d

ICE will be ridiculously happy with all those people who ‘have nothing to hide’.
Every day is a good day to quit #Meta, #google, X and other big tech solutions from the budding dictatorship in america.

european-alternatives.eu

buy-european.net/en/alternati...

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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · 6d

Another easy way to improve maps yourself: bsky.app/profile/buye...

🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · 8d

Still using #GoogleMaps? Time to #deGoogle & #GoEuropean 🇪🇺💪
1️⃣ Use 🇪🇺 maps: buy-european.net/en/alternati...
2️⃣ Help to improve 🇪🇺 maps. Most are based on #OpenStreetMap, so contribute to #OSM.
Quick start:
a) create OSM account:
www.openstreetmap.org/user/new
b) Use every-door.app to [1/x] >>

Sign Up

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

www.openstreetmap.org

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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it. 🇪🇺💪 @buyeuropean.bsky.social · Aug 25

Ever wondered why your company or favorite shop isn’t shown on many maps?
Because the marketing guy can’t think beyond google.
The good news: you can easily fix it yourself:
1. Create an #openstreetmap ( #OSM) account;
2. Improve the map at openstreetmap.org or (easier to start): mapcomplete.org

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

openstreetmap.org

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