Music streaming companies with active anti-AI policies are: Qobuz, Tidal and Deezer

Bandcamp is always worth mentioning if you want to buy music directly

Google doesn't care if you spend money on what is advertised to you. They get paid just for showing you the advert.

The layoffs could be as high as 20% of the company!

We can't keep rewarding Big Tech for choosing AI over people.

We need to make the switch to support smaller & better businesses - reminder about purchasewithpurpose.io to help you get started.

They did him dirty with that image, and I'm all for it 😂

The update on the story is their progress:

• 5000 employees have already migrated
• Nextcloud has been their provider of choice

https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/german-federal-state-makes-move-114924844.html

As a side, most of AI value proposition is the ability to steal other people's ideas and content at scale. What happens when writers, artists, coders, news agencies and so on are no longer incentivised to create?

Google is the worst for this, summarising people's Google searches based on the websites it finds... anyway rant over.

Because Amazon has a monopoly, price matching doesn't mean "we will drop our prices to match competition", it actually means they bully suppliers to raise their prices to meet Amazon's price.

This inflates prices of goods because Amazon is increasingly taking a higher share of each transaction, so before, when companies could offer a cheaper in-store option because they were saving on these fees, they are forced to raise their prices to keep making a sustainable profit.

In summary, the more power you give Amazon, the higher fees they can charge suppliers and the worse the price gets for you as they are forced to pass on the fees. And you won't be wiser because they control the market's price at the supplier's store and on Amazon.

There is no central database, so we have to infer from what is available.

Kagi is the only paid service and so will have a fraction of the free options. The fact that their growth rate increased by 3X with 2k new users in a week is impressive.

DDG has 100m users and saw a 30% increase in their growth. Then you also have:

• Ecosia (20m+)
• Brave (50m+)
• StartPage
• Mojeek
• Qwant
• Etc.

It starts adding up...

Google is not going to lose its monopoly overnight. It is also particularly damaging when they burn through billions and lose market share.

Thanks for the feedback! I had to limit the options presented to avoid making the guide overwhelming. Most of those options are listed on the website - https://purchasewithpurpose.io/

Out of interest, you circled a few options. Any reason? Or are those the tools you use?

Yeah, pretty ironic that they still use a Microsoft product for a "sovereignty-focused" alternative to Microsoft.

Yup! It is noted in the highlighted text in red. I've had several people respond that they didn't know about it, and would be making the switch away :)

Exactly... slop for me, not for thee

Sorry, that is a bit confusing. The other guides have companies with that indicator. Should have removed it here though.

I guess so... The social media part wasn't meant to be a main focus, as it often depends on moving not yourself but the people around you. I do intend to revisit it, though.

Yeah also did that for my recent site using StaticBuilder and Codeberg. Took longer but well worth supporting smaller businesses.

Btw, if people are passionate about this topic. There is a community and website on ![email protected] .

A year ago, we weren't taking any steps. Now many different European institutions are taking similar actions.

These are all on the website. The guide is more geared towards less technical users. https://purchasewithpurpose.io/

I haven't been too focused on Social Media given that it is less about features and more about community. But will look at adding a Reddit replacement.

There is an archived link to avoid the paywall https://archive.is/20251113160729/https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-effort/

Sorry for that, I should have provided the archive version. https://archive.ph/70FiR