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Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an almost All-EU Stack (and saved 500€ per year)
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this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2026
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... Proton is still big tech
According to a wikipedia search that I could cross reference more, Proton AG is 500 employees and Alphabet is 190k (380 times Proton).
What is your definition of big tech? I was only including huge monopolistic monoliths, are they "huge tech"?
I guess, I just generally try to avoid large ecosystems where they still could capture the market
My strategy about that is to avoid putting all my eggs on the same basket :
They are based out of the USA aren’t they? Luckily there are many Nextcloud providers in EU and email like mailbox.org
They're based in Switzerland, but def still big tech
Switzerland
oh yeah sorry I misread