I am so disgusted by this. America as an ally is perhaps the worst ever - on par with russia as a neighbor

Agree. It is not that difficult to make correct moves. Coop Trading cola (Made by Olvi in Finland) and Nocco from Sweden are the ones my boys have to be satisfied with (previously Coca-Cola and Monster)

Good article! Thanks for sharing.
To me the real work was to change (gmail, google) login from every place I been in last 10 years. How many places have you logged with google, all the games, forums, apps… Below are the links where you can estimate the extent of the disaster :

https://myaccount.google.com/permissions

https://takeout.google.com/

I cut off the big 5 (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, META, microsoft) and Adobe as an added bonus.

This is a bit like Trumps tariffs, we need to cut everything off but there is no real alternative services. According this infograph, Startpage should be politically correct choice…

There is limited availability of these fine Central European colas in the Arctic parts of Europe. I am a single father of two teenage boys. They will drink any size bottle in one sip. So we have to rely on these cheap brands. One is Coop, which makes its Coca drinks at a local brewing company called Olvi in Finland. Coop is owned by Coop Trading, a Northern European sourcing company. The brand is present in several Nordic countries. Coop cola is surprisingly good.

I had a lot of Gmail addresses for every possible job and reason. I cutted them down to two email accounts. I tried proton.me, tutamail.com - proton being official and tuta casual, subscription email. I liked tuta but didn’t like proton. I replaced proton with mailbox.org paid plan and I have been very pleased with it. So 2 German provider, Tuta and mailbox. I ll keep my main Gmail rolling in my burner phone for 2 months so transition period is more merciful.

Nice ! To me Microsoft was easy. Google was huge job, because Gmail address was in every possible places. META was easy but influenced maybe the most to my everyday life. I feared that not everything would work with European custom rom android, but /e/OS was extremely positive surprise. Banks and traffic apps work just fine and smoothly.

I buy local Cola and NRJ drinks for my kids ;) No Pepsi or Monster.

“Brussels and Washington have been joining forces for years to tame the technology giant’s global ambitions, using digital diplomacy tools to convince third countries to ditch equipment from the Shenzhen-based firm.”

Well, Silicon Valley based has started to look a lot like Shenzhen based to me lately. And no it is not just Trump (like as it is not Putin).

Session is good alternative

Yes I know. And Finns are not easily changing their ways. So 64 x F35 it is then.

Finland should buy 4 Super Rafales and 60-80 Gripens, instead of 64 the US F35’s.