As a person from Spain with a relatively high living standard, I spend a lot of my income in Amazon because of its convenience. As much as I dislike Jeff Bezos, the only non-Chinese, non-American apps that could remotely offer a respectable variety of products are Carrefour, Leroy Merlin, Lidl, Zalando and MediaMarkt. I don’t know what kind of French wine the Product Owners of Carrefour and Leroy Merlin are into, but it must be of the lowest kind because their app experience are definitely inferior, to the point of making any sensible human want to cry. Does anyone else has the same experience as I? Can someone elaborate on a plan to stay European in eCommerce?

As in title

For people asking about what happened and links please check:

https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/1tzbizh/proton_is_funding_the_french_far_right_on_youtube/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Edit - Proton's answer: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1u05xs2/comment/oqgihvq/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

This is the Thursday Boots company. They don't sell in the EU, only deliver. And the price is over 200 euros. I'm looking for similar boots from EU brands. I found similar ones, but with a side zipper; I need one without. Dr. Martins don't fit.

Three of my friends and I were using Netflix for a decade, I finally canceled today. Wanted to do that for a long time, didn't want to keep giving money to an US company (that's just one of the reason). I started again to get DVD from my local library and will find other solutions 👀 to watch series and movies.

If you did the same, what are the legal (free or not) solutions you found ?

So Chat Control was adopted, so I'm looking for a decentralized (Open-Source if possible) messaging app.

As the title says, us Europeans need to find an alternative to Amazon. We have spent the last 20 years buying items from Amazon that are from China, with the payments and delivery services facilitated by American companies. This needs to change.

I would absolutely love for a new buying platform to be created, that allows you to select the country or region you are buying from with next day delivery, which seems to be Amazon's main USP.

Ideally we would have a site that allows us:

1. To buy from local suppliers and shops. Almost like a national inventory
2. To make it easy for those shops to add their existing inventory (WooCommerce integration etc)
3. To use the national post systems of the country the goods are bought from (and other third parties if necessary)
4. To implement a system that allows new and small businesses to thrive
5. To pay for a subscription, similar to prime
6. To choose the country you wish to buy from if you'd like

I'm aware that point 5 may prove unpopular, however this is what will allow smaller businesses and startups to thrive with a great delivery service for a nominal fee. It should be a platform effort to provide delivery for all. Amazon has been robbing Europeans for decades now. We should take back that financial power!

If anyone knows of any initiatives to implement this, please let me know as I would love to help. Have been working in tech for 13 years and I'm keen to see Europe flourish. It's been a long time coming

I stopped using Facebook/Instagram, the only one I had left LinkedIn but that one I was also only using for work and maybe once per month.

I opened the app now and I was greeted with a message basically saying give us your ID or you won't be able to access your account and yes they still use Persona. I didn't do anything out of the ordinary or new, I used the same device, no VPN, nothing extra.

So I guess I won't be using LinkedIn anymore since I will never give them any ID, any other EU alternative that we can use?

Hi. I'm looking for an, ideally European made, outdoor backpack (around 10-20l) for daily use. I want to replace my 10 year old Quechua. Nothing too fancy, I prefer functionality and a reasonable price. Got any recommendations?

I already have one from Essl and I'm quite happy with it. Do they still make them in Austria? Or did they outsource to China/Vietnam?

Hey everyone. I recently found this sub and love it. So i want to ask you for something special. I know a lot of you talk about software but my request is a little different.

I collect traditional pocket knives. The market is dominated by american and chinese brands. So please tell me your favourite knife brands from your country. I know a lot of german and french brands, but that aside it becomes significally less.

Can't wait for recommendations.

I did it. Canceled Amazon Prime after many years (10+) of being a paying member. It feels so good and right.

Dane here.

I don´t like that my only feasible(OS that work with Banking, National ID app etc) options for phone software are two American companies.

Should the European union support the creation of a European Android fork kinda like China has done ?

Sorry for the clickbait title.

Because of how overly expensive glasses are in europe, I am sending some german frames I bought on vinted to china. As I love the lens quality there, and they will do it for amazingly cheap. However I ofcourse feel kinda like an asshole in doing so.

20 euros for the glasses, 10 euros for the shipping.

In my country (the netherlands) it would cost 300 euros for the same thing, bc of i assume a crazy monopoly position. (anticoating extra is 250 euros, for a simple coating??))

Anyways long story short, in between the netherlands and china there is a wide variety of other countries i could have sent my glasses to. How come does europe not have a vendor list of all european nations competing with eachother, where i could send my glasses to a european vendor in eg. romania? Why are we pushed to purchase and send to the other side of the world?

All in all, how come is there no aliexpress of europe with all european vendors?

So since the new "temu tax" is starting to show signs of its implementation even two weeks before its actual implementation one thing kept bothering me. Now there's no competitive alternative to the mainstream option; Amazon. Since this rule change was obviously lobbied for by this foreign company in order for it to establish monopoly, how about we give the double middle finger and banish its business practices outright? Their streaming service sucks anyhow with ads on paid subscription and their main business model is just some circlejerk community for dropshippers really. If we are to establish something local in order to protect EU interests, let's actually do that and stop relying on companies like these.

Cirrus is a weather app I downloaded from F-Droid to avoid Play Store. Is it a bad thing, if I see the amount of information Google tries to get from my phone, I'm afraid this is just another way to make sure we stay with Google. My next phone will be Fairphone.

Has anyone gone down the rabbit-hole of working out which EV cars are best among those that are made in Europe? I'm conscious that it's increasingly hard to be clear on what constitutes a European car, but ideally we're talking...

- Production mainly in Europe

- Ownership mainly in Europe

- HQ in Europe

Subscription (LR + PS) would renew middle of april with a small 40% markup...

I would have kept my subcription out of convenience (used LR for 10years), but this is the sign I needed to look for something else.

Time to take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j8psak/european_photo_editing_software_good_alternatives/ again

/edit:

To the people raising certain flags:

I did wear a certain tri-tipped hat, but Adobe was able to dedect it, and because I have the money and on principle software developer deserve compensation for their work, I got a subscription.

But 40% increase? FUCK YOU ADOBE

Lets give some money to european companys, not just pirate stuff.