So, I swapped to SoundCloud from any other platform, because other platfroms suck and on SoundCloud I get more art made by humans rather than corporate slop, or at least that’s my goal. I’m not big on music, so I’m fresh in the platform, but it’s easier for me to find anything new than it was before, and I hate the “same old”.

I also got Droidify to replace the apps I can with non-corporate, as Google started pushing their ads in all the default apps they provide (I wish that was illegal - fuck the fucking ads in the gallery app).

I wanted to delete Linkedin, but I found myself forced to use it, as I am job seeking, and it’s sadly the best platform for job offers (still bad, but job websites are fucking terrible). I wish it had an option to opt out of the social media part.

I moved to Proton, but that was a while ago. Outlook and Gmail suck.

I also swapped to Firefox a while ago after using Vivaldi, because fuck Google.

I am personally not a privacy oriented person, but the way big corpos are moving to major enshittification due to acknowledging own market domination is stark. I also don’t like corpo slop (e.g. music), so I appreciate being able to find man-made art.

And on that topic, I abadonned Google search for Ecosia, because fuck Google’s AI bullshit.

My de-corpoing is a very loosely applied term, as you see.

Oh, and obviously I abadonned Reddit a while ago.

  • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Phone is running GrapheneOS. I only use Droidify and Aurora Store for a few things, no Google or proprietary apps or anything with trackers.

    Proton account handles my email, cloud, calendar, and VPN. VPN runs on everything with killswitch.

    All my accounts are managed with Bitwarden.

    Use Aegis for 2FA.

    My personal computer is running PopOS.

    Firefox has always been my browser. Mull on Android.

    Spotube and Newpipe or Invidious for streaming things, otherwise qbitTorrent.

    Searx is my default search engine on everything.

    I don’t have any social media at all with the exception of Lemmy/Hexbear.

    But I’m not perfect.

    Bought my Pixel phones through Google instead of buying it used or whatever.

    I still use Amazon, only recently started during the start of the pandemic for some things but now I order everything for my older mom so she doesn’t have to pay for a separate account so I’m not leaving it anytime soon.

    My work computer runs Windows and, of course, everything we use is Google or some other shitty tech company so I have a huge footprint that way.

    Probably other things I’m missing. It’s all a journey and it takes a long time. No one wakes up into perfect digital security/privacy and it all depends on different profiles and needs. There’s probably still a lot I need to do that I’ll learn about later and slowly incorporate. Oh, and I have a YubiKey I’ve meant to start using but haven’t got around to it.

    Also, I installed Elon Musk’s chip in my brain. Epic.