This is just a vent. Disregard if not interested. Since I started my DeGoogle journey, I
- switched to a more trustworthy VPN that I use more stringently than before;
- deconvoluted personal and work accounts;
- deleted third-party Google logins and set up email / PW logins instead for corporate sites that I do use; I also started using
- NextTube;
- Lemmy;
- Matrix;
- DuckDuckGo, Qwant;
- LibreWolf, IronFox, Mullvad Browser;
- more open source productivity programs, where work admins permit;
- avoid AI use or use locally-hosted or responsibly managed AI where it actually gives me a productivity benefit.
The more I DeGoogle, the more the wonderful rainbow land that should be the internet just starts to feel like a deep dark forest where everything is purposefully designed to exploit the user or wall them off. It’s tiring. User name checks out, I guess. Thanks for listening to my rant, please go on with your -hopefully- wonderful days now.
Yep, I know what you mean. Take it as a good reason to spend more time reading physical books, playing with your dog, making art, going outside and talking to humans, etc. That’s arguably the real payoff of becoming aware of all this shit.
True that. Even though that is also made more difficult by that same social environment often being fully googled and thus always busy with some slop.