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…
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…
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.
People incorrectly assume “European alternative” means “better alternative” when sometimes, that’s not the case. Privacy needs to be approached with skepticism, no matter what surface-level credential something has.
Things like these might be table stakes, but they should not be the end of your search for an alternative product.
I think you are absolutely right.
I totally agree with you. Especially since they tried to take down Anna’s archive…
Anyway, besides that, this remains very instructing.
Call me out of touch all you want. I have big sd cards, and mp3 files. No ads. No subscriptions. No bullshit.
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.
You blew my mind twice on your comment.
I’ll have to take a look at both. Thanks
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I have a bunch of TBs in a NAS and jellyfin/navidrome/audiobookshelf. Because I’m excessive and like making my life harder.
No ads, no subscriptions, just self-inflicted bullshit.
I will change immediately when a service distributes my payments to the artists who I’ve listened to. Every service basically pools em up and gives them to Pitbull, Justin Bieber and the blonde singer who dates a football player. Only the share varies a bit, not the model.
have a look at Qobuz. I’ve heard they have some of the highest payouts to artists. I don’t have sources unfortunately :/
https://the-ear.net/news/qobuz-pays-artists-5x-more-to-artists/
Source? I would like to learn more
https://mertbulan.com/2025/08/10/why-paying-for-spotify-mostly-pays-taylor-swift/
Spotify btw fiances a lot of podcaster that helped this actual situation
I’m test driving Deezer as Spotify alternative.
Looks really promising. You can even import your Spotify playlists and music to Deezer.
Kobuz is my suggestion.
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.