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Developer Switches to European Digital Tools One Service at a Time

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A developer has been gradually replacing American digital services with European alternatives, adopting tools such as Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Qwant, DeepL, and SwissTransfer. Rather than a single mass migration, the transition is being made incrementally, evaluating each service on jurisdiction, data location, business model, and product quality. The shift to Proton consolidated email, VPN, and password management into one Swiss ecosystem, though the author acknowledges this increases dependence on a single provider. Some switches, like moving to SwissTransfer, were driven by practical advantages — such as support for transfers up to 50 GB stored in Switzerland — rather than national origin alone. The process revealed that the Europe-versus-USA framing oversimplifies reality, as services like NordVPN are neither American nor straightforwardly European.

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