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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    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.