Replacements:
Computer OS - Linux Mint
Email - private domain registration, local web host
Web browser - brave browser
Social - gab, clouthub, mewe, td.win
IM - signal
Remainders:
iPhone, MacBook
I will NEVER use any big tech service EVER again, big tech can burn in hell.
OnePlus is actually a Hong Kong company. HK has some strong pepes and I wish Trump. Would recognize them as an independent action as a one last FU to China
That’s just the way of it. As the technology keeps going up, coverage has an inverse relationship. Back when everything was 800mHz I could use a cell phone on my ranch reliably. It’s been over 10 years since that was the case.
Just depends on what kind of device you want. If you're looking newest, the pixel 4 supports it. But just look through the list and pick one. If it's a Google phone or another non-grata company, just by 2nd hand so you don't give them money.
Good for you that you were able to delete so much, family and friends are stopping me from deleting WhatsApp and moving to Signal. I have already deleted Facebook and Twitter and am cleaning up my Google account. Planning to get rid of Google and Microsoft soon.
I’m so stoked about gab overall. It’s more than just a clunky twitter clone (Parler). Seems to be or gearing to be a legit alternative platform and infrastructure.
GabTV
GabChat
Gab phone
Gab Web browser (dissenter)
Gab News
GanTrends
And that’s just right now. They’re also “deplatformed proof”.
I hope Parler comes back online as we need all the alternatives we can get but gab seems like it could be special.
I actually liked the layout of the phone, but Google and Apple intentionally kept their apps from it, so the phone was worthless apart from calling and texting. Basically, it was a non-smartphone smartphone.
Never Tweeted, Never FB, No credit cards ever, No Instagram ever, no Discord ever, no Whatsapp ever (interesting backstory of my building/inventing the foundational structure), no Apple (except a few very old softwares which isn't live), no Netflix, etc. Limited goolag (mostly for detaunte.) Also no drugs, no drinking, only clean living. Just say no to Drink, Drugs, Commies & Corruption.
The problem isn’t so much having to delete or boycott shit.
It’s can half the population do these things while the other half is firmly entrenched and able to use all these things?
Like we’ve seen with the gaslighting and “omg domestic terrorism” from the media and the Dems... conservatives are simply held to a much higher standard with very little room for error.
One side (the normal Americans who are conservative) are at such a disadvantage in so many fucking ways already and it’s getting even worse.
You’re best learning how to not use those things overtime anyhow, as once the totalitarianism ramps up you can be sure they’ll automatically remove all those things from you.
We use VISA as a convenience and never pay interest on the card. With our card, we get 2.5% cash back every month and we use it for everything. So that cash back costs them money the way I figure it because they never see a dime of interest from me.
WRONG! Visa charges the merchants that accepts them 3% of their transactions. So that 'cash back' you get is only some of the money Visa takes from them. You're still giving Visa 0.5% worth of all your transactions if you continue to use your card.
Well it's either i pay those 3% fees and get nothing back, or pay those 3% fees and get half of it back. If you go to a physical store they aren't offering discounts for cash payments
Oh no, I use the same thing that the vast majority of people use when they buy stuff.
A couple hundred people cancelling their credit cards will do nothing except result in more profit for retailers. It's a fools errand to pretend you will make a difference.
That 3% fee existed before banks started giving cash back. It's a fee that's charged to the merchant, and has been for a long time. Your grocery store isn't going to give you a discount for paying cash. I choose to live in the real world and get $1000 back every year.
In general, you can use reloadable prepaid cards, and not "Credit cards" to buy things online. Walmart likely being the best, particularly if being "unbanked", and Less risk than using a debit card online even if have bank accounts.
In your case with spending so much online, if you're buying from some merchants directly regularly or with bigger ticket items (particularly items which don't benefit from "extra insurance coverage" from using a credit card like airlines/cars/etc.); it's in their financial interest and yours to do electronic check payments instead. The merchant doesn't have to pay much of a transaction cost, but it does take 1 to few days to clear, depending on where their merchant banks at. Some merchants will set up an account with you, and others might just wait until your check clears to ship out the product. If you're buying so much stuff, this isn't much a problem as you can just factor in those extra days buying things a few days ahead of time. Most merchants are very happy to not have to pay the credit card processing feees, as that's a significant % of their net profit in most cases.
Visa is kicking conservatives to the curb. Don't know about dB. Whatsapp is owned by FB (use signal instead). Discord kicked this sites chat group off. Netflix is paying Obama 400 million dollars to make sjw bs for them.
5 day old account should spend 5 days reading up on what has happened before posting this drivel. Obama is tied into Netflix, do you need any further explanation of how cucked they are?
With regards to Mozilla software, there are alternate versions to Firefox and Thunderbird that are built from source and do not contain the Mozilla BS that has been shipping in Firefox over the last 5 years. I am not the biggest fan of using Brave because of its Chromium base, which can't reliably be themed like Firefox used to be able to, and is a resource hog. I have found Pale Moon, which is essentially old Firefox with a modern HTML engine. There is also Basilisk (Firefox-52 clone using Pale Moon engine) and Waterfox (modern Firefox with BS removed and some customization restored). All of the browsers that I have mentioned have supported ad and content blocker extensions, so they can be made just as, if not more, secure than Brave.
So far I've deleted Twatter (only had for GEOTUS), Spotify, Snapchat. Switched to brave browser and signal. It's gonna be a bitch trying to get free of google, but I'm gonna try.
Can you provide a source for their "deals"? I've seen random people post this on forums over the years, but no proof. And I can see the calls brave blocks, including all big tech travkers. Chromium is an open source framework, that basically every browser needs to be compatible with because websites support that and Firefox basically. Flash has many outstanding security issues and just recently went into a state of not being supported at all, which means no security updates.
I agree, dissenter is good, I am going to get that on my desktop, but no way of using it in my phone.
If chromium has major security-holes, that means Google chrome does too... I think you're full of shit. There was a recent issue found a couple months ago that was big, but was updated promptly. As long as Google has their own browser, chromium will be getting security updates.
You're not gonna like this but you should stop using GOG and STEAM too. They both guzzle CCP cum. I'm gonna just pirate everything from now on if I can't buy direct from a developer that doesn't suck.
I have had a project in the works for about a year now and it's almost done: a complete Windows clone running on Linux. Here is a screenshot of what I have so far. https://i.imgur.com/PIBGxU6.png I should have a public version online in a week or two.
Good effort mate. I'm on quite a run myself.
Facebook, chrome, firefox, netflix, whatsapp and working on getting set up with proton mail. Finding it really hard to delete discord because all my gaming mates are on it. Really hope a good alt tech solutions comes out soon because I need to jump ship.
I can do all of it except for Apple. I have too many two-factor logins and there is not a good way to get those on hardware. There is a little hardware card thing that will do 1 login, but I'd need 50-60 of them and they cost somewhere around $40/ea.
Thanks for reminding me I still had a reddit account. Deleted! Ugh, I mean "deactivated" - deleted all my posts firsts, they aren't getting ANY content from me any more.
So far..
Deleted Twitter
Giving my 800-$1000 per month to Kroger instead of Walmart. Been doing this ever since Walmart pushes for masks.
Reduced amazon spending
I CAN’T get rid of those services. I have kids who have to use them for education. It would be highly disruptive to my business. They have been integrated into my lifestyle and finances to the point I’m forced to use them.
That’s why this is frightening. If anyone could just stop using these places with no consequences, then they wouldn’t have this level of power.
Might sound odd but I don’t even check my mail anymore, bills are automatic and I informed everyone I will no longer be paying any taxes to this communist regime, so no reason to even get mail.
Mine is Facef**k, WhatsApp, Twatter (1 personal and 3 brand accounts), Instagram (two accounts poof), Amazon (poof gone), Yahoo (never ever), Mozilla (byh bye), Deutsche Bank (happy about that), Google (nuked 5 different acoounts)
Sadly iPhone, MacBook Air, Netflix, Spotify and Reddit still on but looking for alternatives. Windows 10 doesn't actually allow to stop updates, only postpone - big red flag.
For your remaining, you could consider:
De-Googled Android phones or upcoming Gab phone. Linux machine. YouTube on mobile on brave (built in adblocker) (maybe Gab tv eventually), YouTube for music with Brave.
The key to getting out of forced ads is not using their apps. Always use those sites on a browser like Brave to restrict them from making money off you, until there is an alternative that you are willing to go to.
Not fair. I didn't make accounts on all that junk so I can't keep up with your record! When this "new thing" called Instagram wanted to show me even more picture of people's dinner, but first I had to have an account, I just stopped even bothering to follow people's bullshit around in circles.
I’m on the same mission. Here is my delete list so far:
-fuckbook -twatter -instashit -reddit -dinktok -flikr -google (everything) -yahoo (everything) -microsoft (windows) -netflix -amazon -disney+ -mozilla -citibank -amazon (everything) -discord
Replacements: Computer OS - Linux Mint Email - private domain registration, local web host Web browser - brave browser Social - gab, clouthub, mewe, td.win IM - signal
Remainders: iPhone, MacBook
I will NEVER use any big tech service EVER again, big tech can burn in hell.
ProtonMail!
Encrypted and non invasive.
You should ditch the iPhone, grab a used android that you can install lineage os on.
OnePlus is actually a Hong Kong company. HK has some strong pepes and I wish Trump. Would recognize them as an independent action as a one last FU to China
OnePlus is a subsidiary of Oppo fyi
One Plus is a great phone, look for for an older model, 5 or 6.
What is the point of 5g? I’ve never had any issues streaming on 4g.. why was 5g necessary, and why is it a selling point?
3G was awesome over a decade ago.
5G will be able keep with newer technologies as they begin to come online.
It's useless out in the sticks because the only real infrastructure is in the cities at the moment.
I seriously doubt we'll ever see 5G outside of large metropolitan areas.
Cityfags will be able to track their UberEats order 40% more accurately! yay 5G
Lol.
That’s just the way of it. As the technology keeps going up, coverage has an inverse relationship. Back when everything was 800mHz I could use a cell phone on my ranch reliably. It’s been over 10 years since that was the case.
What? Like more surveillance.
I just bought a T-Mobile REVVL 5G phone. So far a very nice phone...flagship features without the $$ and most apps garbage.
Unfortunately, it's still an Android, but with 5g, 48MP camera (really, really amazing camera) at only $399.00.
It's only a hair larger than my old S9.
Looking to root it would, or whatever they call it these days.
Want to completely de-google my life.
Shit! Can we ever escape..lol.
I kinda suspected that because it was dirt cheap but has a spy-level camera.
I guess I'll see if that one made in HK is available.
Anyway... thanks, Pede.
You can't install your own OS/ROM on Samsung. No LineageOS or anything else.
DO NOT BUY PHONES FROM AMERICAN CARRIERS. THEY CANNOT BE UNLOCKED.
Motorola was google's gift to China.
Can you recommend a good used android model to install that on?
Just depends on what kind of device you want. If you're looking newest, the pixel 4 supports it. But just look through the list and pick one. If it's a Google phone or another non-grata company, just by 2nd hand so you don't give them money.
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
Look into https://Puri.sm
If you have money, they even have a made in USA phone.
That's pretty cool
Good for you that you were able to delete so much, family and friends are stopping me from deleting WhatsApp and moving to Signal. I have already deleted Facebook and Twitter and am cleaning up my Google account. Planning to get rid of Google and Microsoft soon.
or Signal.
Signal is allegedly connected to Jack Dorsey so it's a pass for me.
Got a source for that? I know Elon and Jack endorsed it.
Yeah I’d like to hear this too. Somebody liking to use something isn’t the same as being actually involved with the company.
same
Based pede on a mission
waiting on gab phone
Man me too.
I’m so stoked about gab overall. It’s more than just a clunky twitter clone (Parler). Seems to be or gearing to be a legit alternative platform and infrastructure.
GabTV GabChat Gab phone Gab Web browser (dissenter) Gab News GanTrends
And that’s just right now. They’re also “deplatformed proof”.
I hope Parler comes back online as we need all the alternatives we can get but gab seems like it could be special.
I hope they're getting a shit ton of donations.
Just get a used android that can install lineage os on.
Hopefully, it won't be Windows phone 2.0.
I actually liked the layout of the phone, but Google and Apple intentionally kept their apps from it, so the phone was worthless apart from calling and texting. Basically, it was a non-smartphone smartphone.
Was the favorite phone I ever had until they dropped all the apps.
Was also a Windows Phone fan. :( Think I'm gonna buy a Surface Duo 2 when it comes out, since it has a fully unlocked bootloader out of the box.
I’m on an iPhone right now and I gave the only android I had to my brother when his broke, it was a pixel anyway.
Tbh I’m thinking of getting a blackberry classic, if it still comes with blackberry OS, it’s not ideal but at least it isn’t Apple/Google
You’re nearly Amish now 👍🏼
The Amish are the smart ones.
Quaker here:
Never Tweeted, Never FB, No credit cards ever, No Instagram ever, no Discord ever, no Whatsapp ever (interesting backstory of my building/inventing the foundational structure), no Apple (except a few very old softwares which isn't live), no Netflix, etc. Limited goolag (mostly for detaunte.) Also no drugs, no drinking, only clean living. Just say no to Drink, Drugs, Commies & Corruption.
Move your bank accounts from Chase/JPM and BofA and any other "woke" banks to local credit unions.
Welcome back to the 80s my man.
If only the rest of society can join us
If you are cancelling your visas, which credit card company are you going with then?
They're all cucked as hell. Mastercard. Discover. Amex. They're all the same.
Yeah... probably better not to use any if possible. Just cash or checking account. If you order something on gab, you have to use checking account
The problem isn’t so much having to delete or boycott shit.
It’s can half the population do these things while the other half is firmly entrenched and able to use all these things?
Like we’ve seen with the gaslighting and “omg domestic terrorism” from the media and the Dems... conservatives are simply held to a much higher standard with very little room for error.
One side (the normal Americans who are conservative) are at such a disadvantage in so many fucking ways already and it’s getting even worse.
You’re best learning how to not use those things overtime anyhow, as once the totalitarianism ramps up you can be sure they’ll automatically remove all those things from you.
Remove what things? Remove them how exactly?
Reminds me of a black mirror episode.
Eerie.
If you refuse to participate they can't take it away from you.
Or crypto, which is something I think pedes really need to look into.
We use VISA as a convenience and never pay interest on the card. With our card, we get 2.5% cash back every month and we use it for everything. So that cash back costs them money the way I figure it because they never see a dime of interest from me.
Yep. May as well use it against Thema since there really is no alternative.
WRONG! Visa charges the merchants that accepts them 3% of their transactions. So that 'cash back' you get is only some of the money Visa takes from them. You're still giving Visa 0.5% worth of all your transactions if you continue to use your card.
Yep.
Anything like company "rewards" programs, credit cards, etc are all like this.
TANSTAAFL
Hmmmm... Interesting. Thanks for the info.
That's why I was asking
Cash. Old school.
Well I can't use cash to buy things online, and my credit card gives me 1.5% back on everything, which adds up to about $1000 a year
Companies have to charge 3% more for your stuff to cover CC service fees. We lose.
Well it's either i pay those 3% fees and get nothing back, or pay those 3% fees and get half of it back. If you go to a physical store they aren't offering discounts for cash payments
Congratulations. You are the defector in the prisoner's dilemma.
Welcome to game theory.
The only reason why the company accepts those 3% fees in the first place is because there are too many people like you that shrug and defect.
Oh no, I use the same thing that the vast majority of people use when they buy stuff.
A couple hundred people cancelling their credit cards will do nothing except result in more profit for retailers. It's a fools errand to pretend you will make a difference.
That 3% fee existed before banks started giving cash back. It's a fee that's charged to the merchant, and has been for a long time. Your grocery store isn't going to give you a discount for paying cash. I choose to live in the real world and get $1000 back every year.
In general, you can use reloadable prepaid cards, and not "Credit cards" to buy things online. Walmart likely being the best, particularly if being "unbanked", and Less risk than using a debit card online even if have bank accounts.
In your case with spending so much online, if you're buying from some merchants directly regularly or with bigger ticket items (particularly items which don't benefit from "extra insurance coverage" from using a credit card like airlines/cars/etc.); it's in their financial interest and yours to do electronic check payments instead. The merchant doesn't have to pay much of a transaction cost, but it does take 1 to few days to clear, depending on where their merchant banks at. Some merchants will set up an account with you, and others might just wait until your check clears to ship out the product. If you're buying so much stuff, this isn't much a problem as you can just factor in those extra days buying things a few days ahead of time. Most merchants are very happy to not have to pay the credit card processing feees, as that's a significant % of their net profit in most cases.
Sadly no alternative to VISA/MasterCard/AmEx, they're all part of the same cartel.
This. Is. The. Way.
Netflix = child pornography... Cuties
Visa is kicking conservatives to the curb. Don't know about dB. Whatsapp is owned by FB (use signal instead). Discord kicked this sites chat group off. Netflix is paying Obama 400 million dollars to make sjw bs for them.
5 day old account should spend 5 days reading up on what has happened before posting this drivel. Obama is tied into Netflix, do you need any further explanation of how cucked they are?
With regards to Mozilla software, there are alternate versions to Firefox and Thunderbird that are built from source and do not contain the Mozilla BS that has been shipping in Firefox over the last 5 years. I am not the biggest fan of using Brave because of its Chromium base, which can't reliably be themed like Firefox used to be able to, and is a resource hog. I have found Pale Moon, which is essentially old Firefox with a modern HTML engine. There is also Basilisk (Firefox-52 clone using Pale Moon engine) and Waterfox (modern Firefox with BS removed and some customization restored). All of the browsers that I have mentioned have supported ad and content blocker extensions, so they can be made just as, if not more, secure than Brave.
never had any off those. except I am stuck with APPLE/Adobe. trying to get away. need to find a welding or cowboy job instead. :)
Toby Keith playing right now
what tune?
"I Should have been a cowboy"
The Taliban Song
So far I've deleted Twatter (only had for GEOTUS), Spotify, Snapchat. Switched to brave browser and signal. It's gonna be a bitch trying to get free of google, but I'm gonna try.
Don't use them but they go on the list. Thanks.
YouTube too! You guys are too rough on their sensitive ears!
I have an Android phone, so now I'm starting to de-Google myself. Already switched to Firefox, and Duck Duck Go. Working on email next.
I'd like to get a non Google or Apple smartphone, but doesn't seem to be any options. From what I've read, Linux is coming soon but not ready yet.
Dump Firefox, they are calling for "more than deplatforming"... https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/
Firefox is completely fucked. Get Brave my dude
What is sketchy about Brave? And dissenter isn't available on mobile. Brave has been great for me for years.
Honestly, still supporting flash is sketchy af
Can you provide a source for their "deals"? I've seen random people post this on forums over the years, but no proof. And I can see the calls brave blocks, including all big tech travkers. Chromium is an open source framework, that basically every browser needs to be compatible with because websites support that and Firefox basically. Flash has many outstanding security issues and just recently went into a state of not being supported at all, which means no security updates.
I agree, dissenter is good, I am going to get that on my desktop, but no way of using it in my phone.
If chromium has major security-holes, that means Google chrome does too... I think you're full of shit. There was a recent issue found a couple months ago that was big, but was updated promptly. As long as Google has their own browser, chromium will be getting security updates.
+1 on Pale Moon. It's what Firefox used to be before they went full communist.
You're not gonna like this but you should stop using GOG and STEAM too. They both guzzle CCP cum. I'm gonna just pirate everything from now on if I can't buy direct from a developer that doesn't suck.
https://degoogle.jmoore.dev/
Similar spree. Also put Linux on my laptop. Buh bye Windows!
That's my next move.
I have had a project in the works for about a year now and it's almost done: a complete Windows clone running on Linux. Here is a screenshot of what I have so far. https://i.imgur.com/PIBGxU6.png I should have a public version online in a week or two.
Install Linux Mint .. Windows like desktop interface
Linux will always be fugly. We need WPF on Linux.
Good effort mate. I'm on quite a run myself. Facebook, chrome, firefox, netflix, whatsapp and working on getting set up with proton mail. Finding it really hard to delete discord because all my gaming mates are on it. Really hope a good alt tech solutions comes out soon because I need to jump ship.
Thank you for showing the way. Now everyone do it
awesome can I join your fan club?
What is a good alternative to Gmail?
Protonmail or Tutanota are both good, privacy respecting options.
https://protonmail.com/ - https://tutanota.com/
Thanks. I see GMVault could be a way to backup existing Gmail mailbox
Not sure. Checking around now. There's a ton of them.
I can do all of it except for Apple. I have too many two-factor logins and there is not a good way to get those on hardware. There is a little hardware card thing that will do 1 login, but I'd need 50-60 of them and they cost somewhere around $40/ea.
Look into https://Chinanever.com
That's awesome. You should post it to the board. Thanks for the link.
I'll be moving off Spotify too. I think that Deezer might be a viable alternative but I haven't tested it out yet.
Twitch and Spotify are also pozzed
Thanks for reminding me I still had a reddit account. Deleted! Ugh, I mean "deactivated" - deleted all my posts firsts, they aren't getting ANY content from me any more.
So far.. Deleted Twitter Giving my 800-$1000 per month to Kroger instead of Walmart. Been doing this ever since Walmart pushes for masks. Reduced amazon spending
I CAN’T get rid of those services. I have kids who have to use them for education. It would be highly disruptive to my business. They have been integrated into my lifestyle and finances to the point I’m forced to use them.
That’s why this is frightening. If anyone could just stop using these places with no consequences, then they wouldn’t have this level of power.
I hear you. Find another way bring the pain. We can all play a roll, whatever that may be.
Might sound odd but I don’t even check my mail anymore, bills are automatic and I informed everyone I will no longer be paying any taxes to this communist regime, so no reason to even get mail.
In Soviet America, Discord removes YOU. Or me, whatever you get it.
I still have work to do, but have been backing up/ migrating.
Don’t forget search and browser. Phone is last on my list. Don’t want to leave Tibet only to enter China.
Mine is Facef**k, WhatsApp, Twatter (1 personal and 3 brand accounts), Instagram (two accounts poof), Amazon (poof gone), Yahoo (never ever), Mozilla (byh bye), Deutsche Bank (happy about that), Google (nuked 5 different acoounts)
Sadly iPhone, MacBook Air, Netflix, Spotify and Reddit still on but looking for alternatives. Windows 10 doesn't actually allow to stop updates, only postpone - big red flag.
For your remaining, you could consider: De-Googled Android phones or upcoming Gab phone. Linux machine. YouTube on mobile on brave (built in adblocker) (maybe Gab tv eventually), YouTube for music with Brave.
The key to getting out of forced ads is not using their apps. Always use those sites on a browser like Brave to restrict them from making money off you, until there is an alternative that you are willing to go to.
Windows 10 Pro/Enterprise/Education lets you disable updates.
Don't forget to not by Gillette and Goodyear. U cancelled Netflix
Great job, pede! Any alternatives, guides on how to use them and similar could be useful for others here.
Also, do not forget to give feedback to these companies to tell them why you are ditching them.
Seems we all have about a thousand more accounts than we need.
I'm just gonna go join the Amish. They seem pretty happy.
never joined in the first place..
Deleted so far:
Fakebook (grandkids pics will have to be texted)
Amazon Prime
Netflix
AT&T
Google
Apple phones (2)
Comcast (except internet)
I'm old enough to remember a time before these companies.... we'll survive.
(Exception At&T.... I'm not that old)🐸
What'd Visa do?
Tried to talk me out of it. Told them to pound it. Never again.
No I mean to deserve their spot on the boycott list?
They have blacklisted Gab, and other conservatives for "wrong-think". As well as PayPal, Stripe, and Amazon.
Google, visa, and PayPal blacklisted the guy who started GAB. I think they did it someone else recently too. Their name escapes me atm.
Go man, GO!
Your an inspiration sir, I also have deleted these commie sites as well
The way things are going, if you wait long enough, they'll probably all do it for you
Same here. Don't have as many accounts. But same policy at my house.
Next thing you know you’re rubbing 2 rocks together just to cook a hotdog.
I camped on BLM land and National parks for a year straight when I was younger. Just me and my dog. I have no problem rubbing rocks together:-)
This is the good kind of BLM lol
Haha good
Not fair. I didn't make accounts on all that junk so I can't keep up with your record! When this "new thing" called Instagram wanted to show me even more picture of people's dinner, but first I had to have an account, I just stopped even bothering to follow people's bullshit around in circles.
Super based pede