The Swiss options are earmarked, for those who are interested in hyper-local options in this current climate. Remember, the U.S. makes most of its money via their tech sector. Taking that revenue away is one way to fight back.

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9 comments

  1. I am an IT guy and of all the non US alternatives I know three. I use zero.

  2. For cloud alternatives, I would also suggest kDrive by infomaniak.

  3. I would never use a local alternative and I will not stop using American technology because of new duties.
    It is like being again Tesla because of Musk….

  4. Just FYI, OrganicMaps has a fork called CoMaps, it is also worth a look. But the whole OpenStreetMaps ecosystem is crazy, it’s amazing how detailed the maps are. In the original OSM, there are places with individual trees marked on the map. It is amazing for anything off-road, like hiking, with all hiking trails, drinking water, restrooms and similar marked. Google Maps is not even trying in these areas.

  6. Chrome alternatives make no sense. They are all either based on Chromium or on Firefox. anyway there is no alternative, cause its not feasible to develop browsers from scratch and maintain them

  7. i would add tutanota for email + calendar + encrypted contacts & notesnook or obsidian for encrypted notes

    what we really need in my mind is an intercross desktop-mobile OS which offers these apps in own store as disposable default. That would change the game dramaticly.

  8. Every swiss private resident can move to this and we’re not gonna make a visible dent.

    Now, make companys do it, it’s the whole another story.

  9. Fastmail Is another good alternative for mail, pretty cheap for what it offers.

    Not encrypted, Australian-based (when I migrated to it a couple months ago, people were already asking to have an EU-based data store), but at least it’s stupid fast compared to Gmail and supports pretty much anything you’d want from a modern mail suite.

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