Here you can find reviewed, impressive and comprehensive European alternatives for digital products and apps if you wanna break from American (big) tech companies.

Have a look, you’ll be impressed…

https://european-alternatives.eu/

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    3 days ago

    This is a good source, but why the fuck is Spotify listed as a suitable alternative? Spotify is one of THE apps that people are trying to break away from.

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      3 days ago

      I totally agree with you. Especially since they tried to take down Anna’s archive…

      Anyway, besides that, this remains very instructing.

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        3 days ago

        Call me out of touch all you want. I have big sd cards, and mp3 files. No ads. No subscriptions. No bullshit.

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          And that is less energy consuming too!!

          I am socked by the sheer amont of energy needed by streaming platforms (Spotify and others) but nobody seems to care.

          By the way there is a telegram bot that allows you to download anything you want from Spotify. And then you own the files forever… no more connection needed.

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      3 days ago

      I’m test driving Deezer as Spotify alternative.

      Looks really promising. You can even import your Spotify playlists and music to Deezer.

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      3 days ago

      Man, I remember having to use a VPN to sign up for Spotify when it launched, because it was founded in and available to the UK only.

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    3 days ago

    This is a good source, but why the fuck is Spotify listed as a suitable alternative? Spotify is one of THE apps that people are trying to break away from.

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      Qobuz has been the better alternative. From France, pays artists considerably better, has HiRes as standard. Human curated content and also has a DRM free digital store to actually buy the music. (and on one of their streaming tiers gets you a discount on purchases).

      I have really been enjoying it as it works on my dedicated Digital Music Player so if there is something I want to listen, but don’t own there is the option, and I still get the convenience of using it on the TV with the nice sound system.