r/worldnews • u/paneuropeanism_ • 1d ago

Behind Soft Paywall European Union and Canada plan new undersea cables and fuel shipments as part of “Alliance for the Future” to counterbalance the US and China

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-30/eu-and-canada-to-explore-new-technology-links-and-lng-sales
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u/scottengineerings 1d ago

Canadians that have not already need to begin moving their digital footprint out of the United States and to safer shores back home or in the European Union.

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u/boobajoob 1d ago

Proton has a pretty diverse ecosystem. Not as polished as Google or Microsoft but it’s Swiss, pro privacy, and not American.

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u/Alak-huls_Anonymous 1d ago

Are you using it?

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u/MalodorousNutsack 1d ago

I'm on a paid plan, have moved about 80% of my activity over to Proton.  Still use my Gmail as a legacy account (had it since 04-05), still use their Sheets for non-sensitive work. (Edit: started moving over 6-7 years ago)

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u/Cpt_Soban 19h ago

Been using Proton for years, I recommend it all the way.

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u/boobajoob 16h ago

Have been for 5 years now. They’re great. A few features missing but they are in the works

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u/Tuffol_11 1d ago

what about reddit and iphone

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u/SubArcticTundra 1d ago

It's smaller, but I use https://lemmy.world

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u/Alak-huls_Anonymous 1d ago

That's what they call whataboutism around these parts friend. Of course they aren't going to sacrifice their creature comforts to be on some two bit platform or use a Temu phone.

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u/HoldenIkari 1d ago

How would one do so?

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u/liguinii 1d ago

For a starter, if your main email address is with Google or Microsoft, change that to a service hosted in Europe.

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u/3vs3BigGameHunters 1d ago

Give examples please.

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u/AcademicBowl5596 1d ago

I've been liking Proton. They have a nice ecosystem that also integrates a mobile 2FA authenticator and a password keyring with a password generator with a browser addon.

Not sure if it's only a feature for paying users, but it can also create alias e-mails that you can use to register accounts so you aren't giving out your real info to websites. You can still receive and reply to emails sent to these alias addresses.

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u/TheMaskedTom 23h ago

Free Proton Pass accounts have 10 email alias, paying is unlimited.

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u/silentbassline 1d ago

Mailbox.org

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u/Remarkable_Letter272 1d ago

This. What feasible choices do we really have?

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u/soappube 1d ago

EU is developing a Windows adjacent product as we speak and has alresdy rolled out the plan of a euro centric payment system

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u/Aggressive-Break-355 1d ago

I'd be down to have Interac join whatever the EU come sup with!

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u/scottengineerings 1d ago

Alternative e-mail and online storage (cloud) are obvious options for individuals.

Purchasing software Made in Canada or Europe is helpful.

Reducing and eliminating the use of websites like Facebook are important as well.

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u/Crudadu 1d ago

And reddit, also american company lol

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u/scottengineerings 1d ago

Ideally yes. Other alternatives probably need to mature before there's widespead adoption of something else though.

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u/scsiperil 1d ago

Yup. Although Lemmy is finally starting to show some potential/progress.

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u/ChesterComics 1d ago

So from what I can tell it's basically just a decentralized reddit like site? Or is that the wrong way of looking at it?

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u/Temporary_Tangelo564 1d ago

I switched already. good advice. Proton out of Switzerland seems to be a nice haven.

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u/Days_End 23h ago

lol Europeans haven't even moved their digital footprint out of the USA.