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EU Search engine incoming: Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index (blog.ecosia.org)

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For the people who have not yet decided on a search engine. The most EU way you can go is Ecosia or Qwant as they are building their own search index.

Ecosia is my personal pick as its also aimed at planting trees and they have quite a good browser alongside it.

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[–] JasSmith 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

rt.com is blocked for me. If you can access it and you're based in the EU it means you're using a foreign DNS provider like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8.

I understand well the arguments used by governments to restrict access to books and websites. I reject them. I believe I am the best person to decide which knowledge I am allowed to access. I am certainly far more qualified than the government.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

@JasSmith And you fall in trap many intelligent people fall into... just because YOU may be qualified to discern what is lie and what is truth and know how to verify sources properly, does not mean that the majority of people does and that is where we need legislation to take the helm to prevent greater damage to society as a whole.

"The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@JasSmith BTW... changing your DNS provider is a piece of cake, so censorship on that level would not be very effective unless ALL DNS providers would decide to block something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

@JasSmith My DNS provider is dns0.eu by the way. On all my connections. Solidly based in the EU.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

@JasSmith Nope it does not mean that... has nothing to do with DNS... I use the same DNS for all my connections. Like I wrote earlier... blocking happens usually on ISP level.

I can access it from both my work and private cellphone internet cnnections as well as from work internet. Private Internet provider makes it appear like a certificate error on rt.com side.

That is not what I would call censorship (for me that is on state level), but the overreach of a single provider.