What are your success stories in switching to european alternatives?

Qobuz (music streaming) is pretty sweet thus far.
- I have also switched to them from Apple Music, I just wish their selection was bigger.
  
  FYI: In the mobile app there is link in the settings to a form where you can report missing albums.
  
  I also hope that they’ll be able to grow their catalogue, but I must point out that I don’t find it to be poor - I just wish it was even bigger.
  They also have other areas where I hope they improve, like catalogue organisation and even better discovery (or Discover tab), but over all I like them very much and I have faith they’ll become even better (with a bigger user base).
  They also have their own standout features. I.e I’ve always wanted playlist search that searches artist AND song title AND album - Qobuz has that.
- I don't get their business model. They're not even available in half of Europe...

Ditched Cloudflare and am now running Pangolin on a VPS at Infomaniak in Switzerland for all my tunnels and reverse proxies.
- Did the same after discovering Pangolin. What a great tool! 👍🏻

Bought a Slimbook Laptop because Apple's repair would take too long. Slimbook is a Spanish company. We generally buy laptops from smaller suppliers at our company since.
We have been running on European providers for our rented servers for over a decade and are happy there too.

Gmail —> ProtonMail.
Google drive and iCloud —> PCloud, ProtonDrive, Kooft (still have to drop one or 2).
Google translate—> DeepL.
Uber —> Bolt.
Windows —> Linux (although still mostly using windows b/c company laptop).
Google maps —> Mapy, although still sometimes using google for street view.
Edge, Chrome —> Vivaldi, Ecosia.
Google search —> Ecosia.
ChatGPT —> LeChat (Mistral), although still sometimes use ChatGPT.
WhatsApp —> Signal (open source, although still American) and Threema.
- Fixing your formatting:
  Gmail —> ProtonMail.
  Google drive and iCloud —> PCloud, ProtonDrive, Kooft (still have to drop one or 2).
  Google translate—> DeepL.
  Uber —> Bolt.
  Windows —> Linux (although still mostly using windows b/c company laptop).
  Google maps —> Mapy, although still sometimes using google for street view.
  Edge, Chrome —> Vivaldi, Ecosia.
  Google search —> Ecosia.
  ChatGPT —> LeChat (Mistral), although still sometimes use ChatGPT.
  WhatsApp —> Signal (open source, although still American) and Threema.
  
  I'd also recommend these - and always use a paid VPN!:
  Mail: ProtonMail, Mailbox
  Cloud storage: Peergos (self-hosted),
  Translate: DeepL
  Taxi: just use public transit, or Bolt
  Software: Linux
  Phone: Fairphone (Google Pixel is claimed to be safer for privacy, but I still don't trust Google)
  Maps: OsmAnd or OpenStreetMaps
  Browser: Firefox, Librefox (or the usual onion, if censorship is that bad)
  Search: Ecosia, Qwant, SearXNG (if you know how to self-host)
  AI Chat: Kobold.cpp or Ollama (latter downloads models automatically, but former is better elsewhere)
  Messaging: Signal, Threema, Wire
  More information here at Recommendations

I got the wow private server Warmane (Western European hosted) client setup on Nobara so when my current wow sub ends no more cash is heading to Blizzard in getting my original wow trilogy fix. Turtle Wow also covers the season of discovery itch.

Nextcloud has been a pretty good switch but it is getting unwieldy and a swiss knife with a million tools. Run my own email server switched from gmail, but it is a pita VPS server is contabo - not the best but pretty cheap and is European - never really looked into how european they are though and they have US datacenters

Using Vivaldi more than, and soon instead of, Edge
Tutanota subscription for extra emails (might also get one for Proton at some point, one can never have too many emails)
Koffr for medium-sized cloud storage instead of Google Drive
LanguageTool for small text cloud storage and instead of Grammarly
Mistral instead of ChatGPT and sometimes instead of Google Translate (I can tell it to show its work)
And soon(weeks/days from now):
Linux as main OS instead of Windows
- How has LanguageTool been working for you? We have very similar journeys - the only other difference being that I used Firefox before, so I stay with it for now - but the move away from Grammarly I could not (yet?) make...
  
  So far so good, but I've only used it recently and mostly as cloud storage.
- BTW, Grammarly is a sad story. They started out in Kiev in 2009, and sometime in the 2010s, they moved their headquarters to San Francisco. Idk if they gave official reasons.
- Thanks for the LanguageTool recommendation!

Using /e/OS/, really recommend others using this open source alternative to Android.
- it isn't a alternative to android its a android ROM its a alternative to manufacturer android ROMs

Vivaldi and Startpage instead of Edge and Google.