🔍 Web & Search

GoDaddy 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Domains, plus eleven upsells before checkout.

• Gandi French registrar since 1999, no bullshit, free SSL and mailboxes. 🇫🇷
• INWX German registrar with excellent API and 300+ TLDs. 🇩🇪
• OVHcloud Domains, DNS and hosting from Europe's largest hoster. 🇫🇷
• Hostinger Lithuanian registrar and hoster with aggressive pricing. 🇱🇹

Google Chrome 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The browser that decides what the web standard is.

• Mullvad Browser Swedish anti-fingerprinting browser built with the Tor Project. 🇸🇪
• Waterfox UK-maintained Firefox fork with telemetry removed and legacy add-ons kept. 🇬🇧
• Ghostery Private Browser Munich-based tracker blocking, built into the browser. 🇩🇪
• Vivaldi Norwegian power-user browser (outside the default EU scope). 🇳🇴

Google Maps 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Navigation in exchange for a permanent location diary.

• OpenStreetMap The community map of the world, stewarded by a UK foundation. 🇬🇧
• Organic Maps Estonian offline OSM navigation; no accounts, no tracking, no ads. 🇪🇪
• Mapy.com Czech maps from Seznam with the best hiking and cycling layers in Europe. 🇨🇿
• HERE WeGo Amsterdam-headquartered mapping used by most European carmakers. 🇳🇱

Google Search 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Ninety percent of European search, one American company.

• Qwant French search with its own crawler; no tracking, no profiling. 🇫🇷
• Ecosia Berlin non-profit; ad revenue plants trees. Now builds its own index with Qwant. 🇩🇪
• Startpage Dutch anonymised search, plus a proxy that opens results privately. 🇳🇱
• Mojeek Brighton-built independent crawler and index -- genuinely not a Bing wrapper. 🇬🇧

Google Translate 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Good enough translation, at the cost of sending the text abroad.

• DeepL Cologne-built translator widely rated more accurate for European languages. 🇩🇪
• Reverso French translation with real-world example sentences and conjugation. 🇫🇷
• Lingvanex Cyprus-based translation with fully offline on-premises deployment. 🇨🇾

Grammarly 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

A US keylogger with excellent manners.

• LanguageTool Potsdam-built proofreader for 30+ languages; self-hostable. 🇩🇪
• DeepL Write German AI writing assistant from the DeepL team. 🇩🇪
• Scribbr Dutch academic proofreading and citation tooling. 🇳🇱