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Re:Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox ... by xixixao on Friday April 03, 2026 @07:54AM (#47625641)
If you were just a little bit serious you wouldn’t be discussing this on a site run by Y-Combinator!

(the “angry” comments are so tiring)

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Re:Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox ... by efilife on Friday April 03, 2026 @07:56AM (#47625672)
But he doesn't advocate for US alternatives here?
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Re:Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox ... by iainmerrick on Friday April 03, 2026 @08:00AM (#47625698)
They’re pointing out the hypocrisy in this website. The comment itself isn’t hypocritical as they haven’t taken a stance on US versus EU services.
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Re:Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox ... by bee_rider on Friday April 03, 2026 @08:20AM (#47625847)
They didn’t explicitly point to hypocrisy as the thing that makes it “unserious.” Actually I think a lot of serious projects are a little bit hypocritical, a little bit of hypocrisy is often the cost of contact with reality.

In this case it isn’t even clear where the hypocrisy comes from, though. It’s a service for looking up other services. Does it even handle any PII?

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