Big Tech is turning you into a digital tenant, but there is a way to give them notice
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  • GreenShimada@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    2 days ago

    You, maybe.

    Subscribe to a privacy community and let the good times roll blocking all tracking of you online.

    Degoogle your life. Leave meta platforms wherever possible.

    Starve them of the data they want.

    • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      22 hours ago

      My phone shit the bed and I decided to just install graphene on the new one. One of the biggest hurdles in degoogling. Now I’m slowly migrating my accounts away from Google. I can’t do it all at once because that’s just too big of an endeavor.

      My mom has even started to degoogle a bit and is switching to proton for email and cloud storage. She’s learning a lot about privacy and cyber security from me butching about corpos and dumb end users at work. She had her Microsoft account hacked today and she called me from the store as soon as she got an unknown MFA prompt and I helped her secure her shit immediately. So proud of her. She went home after that and immediately started resetting passwords to literally all of her accounts for different things and even appropriately prioritized them. I’ve trained her well lol

      • freedom@lemy.lolEnglish
        1·
        12 hours ago

        I hope GrapheneOS is the real deal, but the push seems a little too conveniently timed.

        • other8026@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          6 hours ago

          I may be misunderstanding, but which push? The open source project was started in 2014 and was named GrapheneOS sometime in 2019. You may be seeing more about GrapheneOS because of the Motorola partnership, CalyxOS dying/being on hiatus (so many of their users switched to GrapheneOS), and recent news pushing people to use more private OSes.

    • Vinstaal0@feddit.nlEnglish
      20·
      1 day ago

      Just get rid of as much American software as you can. The US is a mess and the cloud act will always be abused.

      Edit: or open source software

      • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 day ago

        This is the way. I’m actually going to do my next YT video on options for repatriating your tech consumption and data, because other regions of the world have such better digital regulation.

        For now though, I’m 99% on Linux and that helps a ton.

          • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            1 day ago

            Yes, that and the very few things I need a dual-boot to do.

            Unfortunately there really isn’t a viable Fediverse alternative to YouTube. (Though I did include Peertube in my recent Fediverse video anyway.)