Insightful (or probably: depressing) website shows the Dutch dependency on US tech for digital services like mail and websites. zijnwealautonoom.nl (‘are we autonomous yet’). Red button more clearly marks the US part of it.

In the Netherlands, they are mainly used as a means of transport (or rather: racing) for underage teenagers (12-14) in general (and migrants and young people with a lower level of education in particular), as long as they are not yet allowed to ride a moped and therefore happy to use these fatbikes to circumvent the rules for mopeds.

It might well be possible these ‘bikes’ are a gift when buying vapes, or the other way around, don’t know, but somehow they mainly occur in combination with each other.

Pushtoleave is good anyway, here’s some other maybe useful apps (not all of them are useful in every area or for every product category, though)

There’s quite a lot of similar apps without monthly fees. Not all work perfect for all areas and product categories, neither do they flag both US brands and US production (usually just one of them), let alone combining it with Pushtoleave. But still, maybe some might be useful:

In the Netherlands there’s now a useful dashboard on the depressing state of US tech dependency of government agencies, education, healthcare and a group of large companies.

zijnwealautonoom.nl (‘are we autonomous yet’)

There’s still a long way to go.

There are a lot of European alternatives already. Ok, maybe many of them aren’t exactly as smooth or marketed as the billion-dollar companies of the US, but many are still pretty good. The main problem is not the absence of good European tech, the main problem is a lack of funding (due to the absence of a common internal market), and a lack of enough marketing power. And a surplus of ‘IT-managers’ that pretend to be the expert but don’t know there’s life outside the googlosphere.

Some useful lists of alternatives:

https://buy-european.net/en/alternatives

european-alternatives.eu

euroalternative.co

Could have been a incorrect link, my fault. Removed the www, and it seems to work properly now

In the Netherlands someone made a nice (or maybe I should say: depressing) dashboard (still beta) for the US dependency of government agencies, schools, healthcare and companies: zijnwealautonoom.nl (‘are we autonomous yet’). Red button highlights the enormous extent to which most Dutch organisations behave like a digital colony of the US, for example screenshot shows education.

So, stop buying ANYTHING from the USA. For a quick start: buy-european.net

european-alternatives.eu

euroalternative.co

www.goeuropean.org

https://help.x.com/en/forms/account-access/deactivate-or-close-account

American and owned by American capitalists might be a big disadvantage, but that doesn’t automatically equals it to the nazi deepfake porn platform for foreign troll armies that X has become. Europeans better move to mastodon, but still moving to Bluesky is way better than staying at X. Bluesky is basically similar to X a decade ago. No sane and intelligent person in the world can deny that Twitter a decade ago was way better than C today.

Great moment for a bunch of high profile decent VIP’s to make a video endorsing Peter Magyar

Arte is great (although I think it would help if there is more subtitle languages available, sometimes at all. Can’t make my kids very happy yet with the current available programs.

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Sounds like an great idea. Maybe this will help at least some of the European idiots who still feel the need to visit the US, to refrain from doing so.

Exactly. Unfortunately (but that still doesn’t explain the difference between Norway and the rest of Europe) most other EV producers keep themselves way behind on pretty basic EV-specific feature like pre-heating/defrost (without necessarily being connected to a charger), changing charge speed / amperage or max % through the app, planning pre-heating or charging through the app, api/integration with home energy system, over the air updates, heated steering wheel, etc.

The main problem is that far too many Europeans mindlessly cling to everything google. There are plenty of suitable European alternatives. Probably not for every use case, but more than enough to grow European tech and support European business. https://buy-european.net/en/alternatives