So far this week I've:
- Cancelled Amazon Prime, going to try and shop as local as I can.
- Cancelled Google drive extra storage and icloud backup. *Anyone have a good non woke solution for easy files?
- Changed Twitter profile to Trump and trolling until I get banned.
- Stopped doing Google and Twitter with my agency. Going to try to become approved for Parler ads.
- Moved away from mailchimp to mailerlite (they have banned conservatives)
- Cancelling Amazon music. *Anyone know a good alternative for unlimited music on your phone?
- I also create YouTube training for my business and I'm putting them all up on Gab, Bitchute, and Rumble. Even though they aren't political, I would for those platforms to overtake YouTube and more quality content is important for that.
- Cancelled HBO
- Cancelled Netflix
- Deleted Firefox and replaced it with Brave.
Anyone else have any good alternatives for people looking to yank as much money and power from big tech as possible?
cancel Amazon regular as well. Fuck them!
dropbox, cloud storage but also syncs all data between devices. I love this app!
fuck twitter. Gab for when you get banned.
protonmail
cancel all Amazon services. I download music to Dropbox and then have my own library
brave, fo sho
Firefox? WTF Did Mozilla do? Besides save the internet from M$ and produce open source software for over 25 years? Naw Firefox will always be my browser of choice.
Not the worst statement ever they released, but it made me switch to brave: Their statement: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/
Text below
We need more than deplatforming There is no question that social media played a role in the siege and take-over of the US Capitol on January 6.
Since then there has been significant focus on the deplatforming of President Donald Trump. By all means the question of when to deplatform a head of state is a critical one, among many that must be addressed. When should platforms make these decisions? Is that decision-making power theirs alone?
But as reprehensible as the actions of Donald Trump are, the rampant use of the internet to foment violence and hate, and reinforce white supremacy is about more than any one personality. Donald Trump is certainly not the first politician to exploit the architecture of the internet in this way, and he won’t be the last. We need solutions that don’t start after untold damage has been done.
Changing these dangerous dynamics requires more than just the temporary silencing or permanent removal of bad actors from social media platforms.
Additional precise and specific actions must also be taken:
Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.
Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.
Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/technology/facebook-reverses-postelection-algorithm-changes-that-boosted-news-from-authoritative-sources.html
Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things.
These are actions the platforms can and should commit to today. The answer is not to do away with the internet, but to build a better one that can withstand and gird against these types of challenges. This is how we can begin to do that.
Senior Software engineer here. Sorry, Mozilla has done for more good for a free and open internet than anyone. Also Brave runs on the same JS engine lol. It's like cutting your arm off and saying you can write left handed now so your life is better. If you really care about privacy and censorship just use Tor. BTW the entire network has been reverse engineered by the NSA so don't go searching for dark web unless you want to get swatted.
https://www.torproject.org/
great tip, thanks for sharing!