Our latest European shiny alternative is Pixii 🇫🇷, a French camera manufacturer. 📷 The company was founded in 2017 by David Barth, an entrepreneur who worked on Linux development for Ubuntu for almost 10 years, helping to develop and make Ubuntu more accessible. He couldn't find the photo camera he wanted, so he decided to make one. Pixii cameras are designed and made in Besançon, a city famous for its watchmaking and precision engineering. The final assembly of the camera happens there, but the parts that make up the camera come from different places. The mechanical parts are made in the Vosges region of France, while the electronic components are sourced from Germany and China. The company's graphical designer, Isabelle Colas, has experience from the luxury and watchmaking industries, and she is responsible for the #Pixii cameras' elegant design. Her work has won the company awards like the Red Dot Design Award. Pixii is competing with Leica 🇩🇪, but it works with #Leica's lenses. It's aimed both at #photography fans and the "Instagram generation". Despite challenges in increasing production, Barth's approach has attracted international attention and financial backing, including investments from people with experience in the industry.
Pixii Camera
Pixii Camera - Digital rangefinder camera
Pixii is a modern digital rangefinder camera made in France. Pixii features a high-precision rangefinder, interactive optical viewfinder, native sm...
 #EuropeanAlternatives #BuyEuropean #photography
Why Threema 🇨🇭 Instead of WhatsApp 🇺🇸 ?
Threema
About Us. Our History, Values and Principles – Threema
Since Threema has been committed to data privacy in messaging since 2012. Learn more about our values, our principles, and our history.
 #threema #whatsapp #EuropeanAlternatives #BuyEuropean
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European search engines 🔎 Czech Republic 🇨🇿 #Seznamcz
Seznam – najdu tam, co neznám
Nejnavštěvovanější český internetový portál nabízející vyhledávač, e-mail, aktuální zprávy, předpověď počasí a odkazy, které...
 France 🇫🇷 #Qwant
Qwant
Qwant
Fast, reliable answers and still in trust: Qwant does not store your search data, does not sell your personal data and is hosted in Europe.
 #Karma
KARMA
The alternative search engine dedicated to protecting animals and biodiversity
 #Lilo
Lilo, le moteur de recherche français et solidaire
 #ZoTop
zoTop
SearXNG — a privacy-respecting, open metasearch engine
 Germany 🇩🇪 #Ecosia https://www.ecosia.org #Metager
MetaGer: Privacy Protected Search & Find
Search safely while having your privacy respected. The digital knowledge of the world must be freely accessible without paternalism and abide by st...
 #Fireball https://fireball.com #Ghostery https://ghosterysearch.com #GoodSearch
GOOD — The Search engine for a better world
GOOD — The Search engine for a better world
Search with GOOD and support solutions that positively change the world.
 #Monocles
monocles search
monocles search, powered by searx
 Scandinavia 🇸🇪 🇩🇰 #Leta
Mullvad Leta
Mullvad Leta has been shutdown
On November 27, 2025, we shut down our search proxy, Leta. Here is how to set DuckDuckGo as the default search engine in Mullvad Browser
 #Stract
Stract
 #Marginalia
Marginalia Search
Marginalia Search
Marginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies...
 Switzerland 🇨🇭 #Swisscows
Your private and anonymous search engine Swisscows
With our anonymous search engine Swisscows you will find absolute security. No tracking ✓ Search anonymously ✓ Family friendly ✓ at | swissco...
 #Etools
eTools.ch
eTools.ch - The Transparent Metasearch Engine from Switzerland
Transparent metasearch engine in Swiss quality. Simultaneously queries major search engines with one click.
 UK 🇬🇧 #Mojeek
Mojeek
Mojeek is a web search engine that provides unbiased, fast, and relevant search results combined with a no tracking privacy policy.
 #Oscobo
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Swiss Tech Company Proton Warns of Surveillance State Expansion ⚠️ Proton CEO Andy Yen has raised concerns about a proposed revision to Switzerland's surveillance law, which he says would lead to an "aggressive expansion of the surveillance state". The law would require companies like Proton, which provide secure email and messaging services, to cooperate with authorities in extracting data, potentially compromising users' privacy. Yen says: "We will be forced to leave Switzerland if the planned revision of the surveillance law comes into force. There is no way we can comply with this law. Swiss surveillance would be much stricter than in the US and EU, and Switzerland as a location would lose its competitiveness". https://www.derbund.ch/andy-yen-gegen-revisionsplan-des-bundesrats-mit-dieser-aggressiven-ueberwachung-muesste-proton-die-schweiz-verlassen-487339556764 #proton #surveillance #switzerland
🎵 We listen to a lot of music from different countries and languages, so we go to concerts, have CDs and vinyl, but most of the time we listen to music via streaming services. As part of the #BuyFromEU movement, we will personally try to listen to more music from Europe, especially from other European countries other than our own, but we need suggestions. What if we did this together? This can help us discover a lot of nice music from our European friends. 😀 🇪🇺 So we thought it might be nice to create themed playlists with songs from different European artists. Instead of letting the algorithm of your music streaming app decide our weekly recommendations based on paid content from record labels, the random recommendations of the Mastodon community could expand our musical horizons and help boosting European music. 🎻 Each week we could define a theme (e.g. music for a rainy day, songs with clever lyrics, etc.) and invite everyone to recommend a European song that fits the theme. We would collect the suggestions and create a public playlist somewhere (where?). To decide on weekly themes, we could make polls a week in advance and on a certain day everyone would submit their song suggestions. Are there people here who are interested in participating? #music