For folks who might not be in CONUS, or just looking for digital services (email providers, CDNs, or cloud computing platforms, cloud services, and SaaS products, etcc.) – not tied into the major US-based businesses and cloud platforms …
Lists products & services from organizations based in Europe, are GDPR-certified (not just calling themselves GDPR compliant), and which meet similar EU legal requirements, as well as offering payments commonly used in Europe and elsewhere.
The listed European mail providers, for example, include: mailbox.org (Germany) and Proton Mail (Switzerland) + 19 others. Ten European public DNS resolvers, including quad9 (global, operated by a Swiss non-profit), DNS.SB (from Germany, no logging), and 8 others. Music streaming services includes Spotify (from Sweden) + 2 others.
Microblogging services include Mastodon – specifically: Mastodon’s European servers …
The european-alternatives.edu site has no ratings, but the different categories and what is in them are discussed widely – in reddit and elsewhere, although you may need to look around to find those discussions. FYI, there are six Euro alternative search engines listed:
Qwant (French, uses Bing search index + their own; separate search engine for kids)
Ecosia (Germany, uses Bing or Google, depending on your preferences, has advertising but donates 80% of surplus revenue to conservation projects)
Startpage (Netherlands, uses Google & Bing results, but with focus on privacy)
Good (non-profit search engine from Germany, uses Brave search index)
Swisscows (Swiss search engine uses Bing index + self-made one)
metaGer (German metasearch combining search results from other providers)