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European alternatives to Facebook
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This page lists European alternatives from companies based in a member state of the European Union (EU) or the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
Ohhi is a private social network for photos and videos, built in the Netherlands. You share your photos and videos only with the people you choose — family, friends or a club — and no one else. There are no ads, no recommendation algorithm pushing strangers into your feed, and your images are never used to train AI models. You pay for storage, not with your attention or your data. All photos and videos are stored on servers in Europe (Germany and Finland), there is no third-party tracking, and when you cancel your data is really deleted within 30 days. Face recognition and smart tagging run on Ohhi's own servers in Europe, are turned off by default, and are never sent to external AI providers.
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