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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 4 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 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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

I can confirm it's resolving rt.com. I've tested on two ISPs here in Denmark and both block the domain. I'm wondering if there are regional differences in the legislation or edicts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

@JasSmith From what I can tell it seems to be company, by company and not by legislation. At least here in NL. Tried it on five different providers now and only my home ISP is blocking it. And skillfully so, making it look like there is something wrong with the certificate of RT.

But in the end... no, I don't want to hear what Russia has to say right now. They have been known for false propaganda for decades and they are as good at it now as they ever were.

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