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waipu.tv: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

waipu.tv is a live television streaming service that lets viewers watch linear TV channels over the internet on smart TVs, mobile devices, PCs and streaming-media adapters. The service is delivered through apps and a web player, and the provider also sells its own streaming sticks and boxes. The service has been online since 2016 and is operated by Exaring AG, which also develops the IPTV platform.

Exaring AG is based in Germany and has Freenet, a German telecommunications group, as its majority shareholder, so the ownership chain does not lead abroad. The pages reviewed do not state where customer data is hosted, and the privacy statement does not explicitly name the GDPR, so organisations should check the processing terms before use. The service is not open source, and no self-hosting option appears on the pages reviewed. For a European organisation this is a German provider whose hosting and contract terms still need to be verified.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 10, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Video Streaming
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to waipu.tv

The European alternatives to waipu.tv come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with waipu.tv

waipu.tv is headquartered in DE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so waipu.tv scores best on data residency.

waipu.tv is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs waipu.tv together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to waipu.tv?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to waipu.tv include 3Cat, Accedo and ADN. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to waipu.tv?

Our list of EU alternatives to waipu.tv is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is waipu.tv GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

waipu.tv is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes waipu.tv an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 10, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

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Digital sovereignty in Video Streaming

Video Streaming: Video streaming services — movies, series, live TV. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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