Tech companies and their executives have, broadly, moved to align themselves with investors and adopted a posture of, often, disdain or outright hostility towards their users and employees. If tech companies don't value you, why provide value to them? If they back political positions hostile to your interests, why not return that hostility?
  • tb_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 minutes ago

    Do you have to use a big social platform? Click on all of the ads you see or click on some of them, but don’t buy anything.

    Check out AdNauseam, it’s based on uBlock Origin

  • zangwill@lemmy.zipEnglish
    40·
    2 hours ago

    Verify your age…
    No
    Upload a profile picture…
    No
    Update your home address…
    No
    Here’s a cool product…
    blocks user, blocks group
    Here’s a new feature
    disable
    Unknown foreign number
    Don’t pick up
    Unknown local number
    Listen, then end the call without speaking
    Unknown contact on whatsapp
    Block and report as spam
    Ads on websites
    Block with uBlock origin

    • jaschen306@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      11 minutes ago

      For T-Mobile, you can remove voicemail all together. You have to call in. So it stimulates that the phone number is bad and gets removed from calling lists.

  • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 hours ago

    I am doing most of the things he mentioned but I’ve gone further. No social media at all. No Google. No YouTube. I buy physical media and self host all my drm free ebooks and other media I actually own. I only use fediverse sites. Librewolf on Linux behind a VPN and strong firewalls. I have no cameras or microphones on my property. No credit cards and no debt at all through being careful with my resource management.

    That doesn’t mean I’m not an asshole though.

    • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      This is the way. Im about 80% through

      You might call it arsehole, i’d call it being objective to the practice of people pleasing or over accommodation.

  • karpintero@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    3 hours ago

    I’ve been buying more physical media lately because I don’t like the idea of paying for digital copies that someone can decide to pull from my library with no recourse.

    Also, have found that a way to partly combat being productized online is to build a life, hobby, or community offline. Time not spent on the algorithms is usually better for my mental well-being anyway. YMMV

    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      2 hours ago

      I still buy digital media, but only if it’s in a format that I can download and keep locally, such as when I buy albums these days, I make sure to buy the MP3 versions so that I can download them to my machine and keep them.

      Anything that’s accessed through some sort of app and won’t allow me to download it is an immediate no.