The European Parliament will this week replace Google with France’s Qwant – a European alternative search engine – as the default on its computers, according to an email seen by Euractiv.

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    2 days ago

    DDG is still US tech though. If the goal is to use European, DDG is a no-go.

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      1 day ago

      Speaking of US tech, Qwant has Amazon and Adidas as sponsors? 💀 They are prominently displayed on the Qwant front page when using its mobile app…

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        Take their money, abandon their tech. I’ve been boycotting Amazon for years and I don’t see a problem.

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          It’s easy for us to say when we never even use the services or products of those companies.

          What if it said “Support Genocide” instead. Still, take their money, abandon their cause? It feels very uneasy. No search engine is free, just as no tech offering is truly free.

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      Absolutely right, I am trying to move away from US tech.

      What I absolutely can’t love without is bangs. Like !w <query> to search Wikipedia directly, for example.

      But I’m starting to think I might want an add-on for this instead of relying on the search engine for it.