We just took our first step and cancelled Netflix! It’s a small thing compared to some of you, but we’re here to stay! Becoming more and more aware and striving to buy European!
cough kodi cough realdebrid cough
Every single step towards IT independance is good to take, while some can afford to ditch Windows for Linux, erase all their subscriptions, it’s not as easy for others. Every cent that they don’t make from us is the better.
Still have the moral dilemma of cancelling my WoW subscription 😭😭
Out of spite against blizzard I started using private WoW servers a few months ago.
I settled on one called Chromiecraft for several reasons:
- The server code Is open source.
- It has a huge European presence.
- Non profit.
Canadian here - canceled Amazon Prime, and deleted Meta’s Facebook and Messenger. I also canceled my Norton subscription and will be replacing it with Avast. I’m canceling Google One cloud storage and have changed my default search engine to Quant.
I know I’m just one family, but if we all do this kind of stuff, what a world it would be!Avast and Norton are one company for couple years now https://www.gendigital.com/
Source: worked for Avast right before the merger, left because didn’t like the merger
Avast had privacy violations.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/did-avast-sell-your-data-heres-how-to-get-a-piece-of-the-ftc-settlement
Windows defender is good enough if you are on Windows.
Thanks for the tip - hadn’t heard about the Avast news, and wasn’t aware Windows Defender might be sufficient. I’ll look into it.
I’ll confess to still using WhatsApp, cause I don’t have it in my heart to force my 80 year old mother to learn signal.
Oh - and I’m replacing gmail (email and calendar) with Proton. I think the CEO isn’t great, but it’s a very similar service, and it’s not US based. Any recommendations for alternatives to Android and Apple? I’m getting less comfortable with how much data Google has (and I don’t like iOS).
Proton the company recently deleted their Mastodon to exclusively use Twitter. They are very sketchy.
Another thing is virustotal is a good site for scanning programs before running it, since it’ll scan it with every possible virus scanner available.
Windows defender and browsing the web with something ublock origin to block ads is sufficient. And just having virustotal scan a program before running it will protect you from most stuff.
If you do insist on a third party virus scanner then eset is one I used to use for years before sticking with defender. It is from Slovakia.
Unfortunately, phone OSes alternatives are still far behind Android and iOS for most people.
But you can use a de-Googled Android distribution: Graphene (probably the best choice but Google Pixel only and may have a learning curve), Calyx, Lineage, eOS.
i only have gmail, netflix and windows 10 to replace. gmail is easy but time consuming. on netflix is dragon ball daima 😭
microshaft windowns 10 is the hardest for me. most of my games arent from steam.
I already made a Tuta account and am shifting the subscriptions to that one, but I will wait until email import is introduced to shift completely.