BuyFromEU

3142 readers

114 users here now

Welcome to BuyFromEU - A community dedicated to supporting European-made goods and services!

We also invite you to subscribe to:

Logo generated with mistral le chat Banner by Christian Lue on unsplash.com

founded 1 month ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

609

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

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

97 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (10 children)

@JasSmith Well there is a whole discussion to be had about banning media who is spouting lie after lie after lie and are propaganda machines for the respective regimes.

But before you just assume censorship... try it yourself. I can open rt.com, tass etc and search for them.

Sometimes the search result are all nerfed to hell, but they are there.

And some pages (Zwezda) seem to have blocked access from my country at least, but that's on their site & RT does not have a valid certificate...

[–] JasSmith 1 points 3 weeks ago (9 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 3 weeks ago (5 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.

[–] JasSmith 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I work in IT so I can confidently inform you that the vast majority of people do not change their DNS providers. Very few people would know how. Recall that my comment above is not about how easy circumventing censorship is, it was about the censorship existing at all, and how the EU would censor results in a search engine they create.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

@JasSmith I know. IT Admin myself...

load more comments (3 replies)

load more comments (6 replies)