We’re reaching the end of an era wherein billions of dollars of investor money was shovelled into tech startups to build large user-bases, and now those companies (now monoliths) are beginning to constrict their user-bases and squeeze for every single penny they can possibly extract. Fair or not.

Now more than ever, it’s important for us to step back and reconsider whether we want to be billboards for these companies anymore.

For anyone unfamiliar, some good resources to have when starting your degoogling journey are below:

Privacy Guides - A list of privacy-respecting services you can use.

Plexus - A crowdsourced information bank of service compatibility with degoogled devices.

This random PDF - A study from 2018 detailing data that Google tracks about its’ users.

  • new_account
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    1 year ago

    Just a view suggestions:

    • Nextcloud instead of Dropbox (foss)
    • Bitwarden instead of 1password (Foss)
    • Logseq instead of Obsidian (Foss)
    • Signal instead of telegram (e2ee)
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      1 year ago

      I’d love to use all those but I’m the admin of our family accounts and there’s only so far I can make relatives go in terms of these platforms. It’s been a lot of compromise to get here without complaints lol