Buy European

I used Wero for the first time yesterday, and I found it very easy to link to my bank account (just one click on a pop-up). The app is really convenient.

I visited their website and discovered that Wero is currently available in most banks in France, Belgium, and Germany. Their goal is to create a payment system across all of Europe, enabling online payments, in-store payments, or even replacing IBAN transfers.

Wero website

" Wero is part of the European Payments Initiative (EPI), supported by 14 major European banks and the two largest payment processors in Europe. Our goal is to create a new payment system for Europe, for the future."

I think Wero could replace Visa and Mastercard in our daily payments. I would like to hear your thoughts on this. If you are in France, Belgium, or Germany, you can activate it. Initially, this will support the project, as it is not yet fully functional to replace the payment methods of all European countries.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.eco.br/post/11411066

On this site you can find several hosted open source software services. They're hosted in the EU and are configured privacy friendly.

The site gives a good overview for existing alternatives and opens source tooling in general.

Personally, I often use the services https://teamjoin.de/ (Opentalk conferencing), https://dnsforge.de/ (adblocking DNS) and https://gruble.de/ (searxng search engine).

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j6dqah/go_european_extension_update_week_2_version_19/

Welcome to the second weekly update on the Go European extension. I know I said I was doing it on sundays but for now just expect weekly updates to be somewhere in the weekends :)

Technically a week has just past since the first release but the week 1 update was also focused on development.

Download the extension

If you don't care about the extension updates and just want to see what it's all about, check it out here:
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/go-european/
Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/go-european/klmgadmgadfhjgomffmpamppmkajdloc

Releases

The current status for each browser is as follows:

• Firefox: V1.9
• Chrome: V1.8 (V1.9 Under Review)
• Opera: No support 
• Edge: No support 
• Safari: No support

New features

These are newest features since last update:

• Alternatives for over 60 different non-European websites
• Path support added (e.g. google.com/maps does not show alternatives for google.com, but their own alternatives)
• A "support me" page to support the project
• Mapping changes to make contributing to the repo easier
• Added an option to turn of notifications/pop-ups entirely
• We moved to Codeberg!

Stats

This week was absolutely amazing. Thank you all for downloading, using and reviewing the addon. And another huge thank you to the two donators we've gotten so far. I appreciate it more than you can imagine :)

For Firefox we've are currently on 1167 downloads, and an average of 571 daily users. This is a huge number that I am very proud of. We have 29 reviews with a 4.9 stars average.

For Chrome the stats are a bit behind but as far as I can see we have a total of 913 active users and 8 reviews with an average of 5 stars.

Once again, thank you very much, and hopefully these numbers will grow in the following months!

Further updates

I now have a roadmap in the readme on the repo. You can find it here :)
https://codeberg.org/K-Robin/GoEuropean#roadmap

Support me

In addition to last week update I decided to add some support options aswell.

Using this extension already shows plenty of support! Here's how you can help even more:

• Leave a review on the extension store - this helps others discover Go European
• Share the extension with friends and colleagues who might be interested in European alternatives
• Use it regularly to discover European alternatives to non-European sites and services
• Send me feedback about your experience with the extension and the alternatives you've discovered

Your feedback helps me improve and reach more users!

Know a European alternative that's not in the database? Let me know! Your contributions will help expand our database and benefit all users. https://tally.so/r/meYd2k

If you find Go European valuable and want to support its development, consider donating!

Nearly all of the application is currently being built by a single developer, me. I use a lot of my free time to develop the extension, but I would like to replace more of my "working" time to work on the extension. By donating, you can help me with that! There are a lot of people who are offering to help with the main application but all code has to be checked and reviewed, and unfortunately I don't have much time for that in addition to developing the extension myself.

Your contributions help me:

• Maintain and improve the extension
• Add more European alternatives
• Keep the project free of any ads
• Expand to more browsers and platforms

You can donate on https://4fund.com/d9w26e

The code

All code is open source and can be found here: https://codeberg.org/K-Robin/GoEuropean

who owns what tool brands

Hi all,

Does anyone know an online shop with a big and wide-spread assortment that isn't just a marketplace with individual suppliers?

I haven't bought expensive stuff from amazon for years but still used it occasionally to fill some gaps from my shopping list for small special items that I couldn't find offline. You can easily get all of that in other online shops or marketplaces like eBay but you'd have to order everything separately: You'll pay shipping multiple times and produce way more waste for packaging.

Sample shopping list:

• Sweetening vanilla flavor drops (you typically get those in sport related shops where you also get protein powder)
• Yellow or green shoe laces with 140cm length
• Environment-friendly sunscreen stick with UV protection of 50

I know individual online shops where I can all of that but is there a shop where I might get this (or similar weird combinations of stuff) all in one box?

Kind regards, rbn

The largest commercial provider of ebooks, audiobooks, and other digital content such as streaming videos in the world, a 2023 report estimated its market share as perhaps being upwards of 90%.

This company notably powers the Libby app for borrowing books.

The headquarters is located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

Are there any European alternatives available?

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/57611481

Just in time for 10 years of Tuta/Tutanota, we are launching the most significant security upgrade of Tuta Mail with TutaCrypt. This groundbreaking post-quantum encryption protocol will secure emails with a hybrid protocol combining state-of-the-art quantum-safe algorithms with traditional algorithms (AES/ECC) making Tuta Mail the world's first email provider that can protect emails from quantum computer attacks.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26007254

ArcaneChat: Private chats for the family

ArcaneChat is a FLOSS private and secure messenger focused on privacy and friendly user experience.

💬 Reliable instant messaging with multi-profile and multi-device support.

⚡️ Sign-up easily and anonymously, no phone number or any private data required.

🎮 Interactive mini-apps in chats for gaming, shopping lists, productivity and collaboration.

🔒 End-to-end encrypted chats safe against network and server attacks.

ArcaneChat is a Delta Chat client and it is compatible with other Delta Chat clients.

Source code: https://github.com/ArcaneChat/

Now that we all dont buy american products anymore and dont use their programs and services, i want to do something more, but i dont have any ideas. Please write some! :)

I thought i would put my old things which stood around for months, on websites similar to Ebay. I also thought about recycling them, but to that would be a waste since they still have a worth.

As it says on the title. A website sent out a survey with written feedback and they want to know what requests for improvements are come up the most. It's not a huge amount of data and tbh I could probably just eyeball it but I'm honestly a bit curious to at least try an AI.

Edit: (They asked me if i could use an AI, if I wanted to)

Suggests European website alternatives to non-European websites.

We worked the last months on a new completely ad-free database for European products, brands, services and companies. A few days ago we released the site. The website focuses on usability with a simple search form and a clear structure. After the technical development we are now in the process of filling the database with content.

If you have any feedback, we would appreciate it. If you like it and want to share it, we appreciate that too. :)

Thanks in advance!

https://buy-european.net/