So far I’ve cancelled Netflix, Amazon, Norton, switched browsers to Vivaldi, switched email to Tutamail, and only purchased non-american items. I’m still going through the de-google list.

It’s a lot of work, but I’m not knowingly giving the american economy a cent of my money.

Tell us what you’re changing, maybe it’ll give us some ideas.

  • UraniumBlazer@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    22 hours ago

    Please don’t use Vivaldi. It’s based on Chromium, whose curator is Google. Chromium is open sourced, sure. But Google still has the keys to the repo and they do push whatever they want to push on there.

    But can’t someone just open-source chromium if stuff goes out of hand? Technically, sure. But developing a browser takes a crazy amount of resources. Maintaining a fork like this would be expensive. No one really has the resources for this.

    This is why you probably should use a Firefox based browser. Mozilla, the parent company behind Firefox is still American, though it’s a non profit. They kinda have the resources to maintain a browser. Granted, there are many problems with Mozilla. Regardless, it’s still much much better than Google.

    • mel@jlai.lu
      4·
      22 hours ago

      Another big win for firefox is that you can have ublock origin also on android

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
    4·
    22 hours ago

    I stopped drinking bourbon. There’s a couple of small european manufacturers who make bourbon or rye, but it really loses its appeal for me when you add the ‘craft tax’.

    Also stopped buying from Amazon. Homegrown alternatives just aren’t as good and are much more fussy when you want to return something, which is why it has taken me so long.