“MAGMA” is my shorthand for the Big 5 US Tech Giants that have gotten their rent-extracting hooks into people’s lives all over the world and will sooner or later burn everyone:

• Microsoft

• Apple

• Google

• Meta (incl. Facebook)

• Amazon

In this article I’m going to list/categorize their products and provide a matching set of EU/AU/NZ/open-source alternatives for those who want to move away from US Tech Hegemony.

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