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.
Internets origins lie in the Semi-Automated Ground Environment & the Phoenix Program. It was rolled out to CIA-approved universities & invite-only sites for journalists. It will still be part of a bright future. Technology looks sinister when it is held in its most developed forms by the worst people imaginable. They’re already scared of what they started.