[andreasley]

The service is run by a French non‑profit organization, not the EU.

[incomingpain]

A french non-profit subject to the EU and France rules.

Which means they absolutely abide the DSA and must block 'illegal content' which is pretty extensive these days. Includes 'hate speech' which isnt well defined, but only when ordered by a court. Not to mention various "disinformation" orders they must abide by now.

They are also subject to orders from ARCOM? for copyright related stuff.

They are also obligated to record and store all dns queries by ip essentially forever.

This is literally why the title claims "safer". They are censoring.

[BillyTheMage]

Why would the French (or other) government not have agents planted in such a high-value place? It's almost without question that they do.

[debugnik]

I make myself the same question every time I use US services. Which is why I want to drop them.

[cubefox]

It seems rather unlikely to me that they do.