European Alternatives to US Products & Software
2mon 15d ago by lemmy.zip/u/BrikoX in buyeuropean@feddit.uk from only-eu.eu
Find European alternatives for software, daily products, and tech. Stricter environmental standards, fair working conditions, and data sovereignty – Made in Europe.
There are really dozens of these websites today. It would be cool to see them join forces on a single URL with all the alternatives, so it could be a real movement and reliable source.
Proton is bigger than Mullvad, so more people have heard about them and might see them as a good alternative. For the VPN providers it doesn't really matter since it was only 4 alternatives, but they might add more alternatives in the future.
Proton is bigger than Mullvad in number of users, servers, employees, revenue. Mullvad is a great VPN but they are a smaller company.
I'm not defending them, just trying to find a reason, except for level of commission paid, for why they would list them in this order.