German hackers call for 'digital independence days' to reduce US tech grip

19 pointsposted a month ago
by doener

2 Comments

9dev

a month ago

I have been waiting for this for a while now. There’s a window of opportunity coming for European startups soon, when more and more companies are looking for strategic alternatives to US software.

Mark my words, the way the Trump Administration is driving the US economy against the wall, this will happen sooner or larer

hulitu

a month ago

> Public figures and European firms push users to leave US platforms they warn are damaging democracy

> CCC members in local chapters throughout Germany will assist users, for example, in switching their browsers from Google’s Chrome to Firefox or from Elon Musk’s X to Mastodon, a European-run decentralised social media network.

So Microsoft with Edge (based on ... Chrome) is ok. And no word about Facebook, or Apple or Intel, or Android or Micron, or Asus, or MSI, or Nvidia, or ...

But hey, it is a start. /s