If you're quite far along in your journey to abandon #BigTech then you'll be considering flashing your phone with a #deGoogled OS.
We've listed the phone models that work with the easy, plug n play web-based installers, so you can avoid the gnarly manual method:
https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/mobileos.html
(Scroll down to The Easy List)
If you're quite far along in your journey to abandon #BigTech then you'll be considering flashing your phone with a #deGoogled OS.
We've listed the phone models that work with the easy, plug n play web-based installers, so you can avoid the gnarly manual method:
https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/mobileos.html
(Scroll down to The Easy List)
@onepict It's an interesting point. I had not previously thought of the rise of Facebook et. al as a failure of the open web, but of course it's an *induced* failure, as companies saw a more profitable opportunity in locking people in.
@wendyg exactly, there's a reason I wrote this for fluconf this week.
We're valuable both as a userbase to manipulate as well as a huge amount of data for #SurveillanceCapitalism to use and abuse
We do need to ask these questions if we want to know why Mom and Pop stores just set up on Facebook or other hard to move from silos.
Where they pay for access to ad networks for the potential of impressions on the web via #DigitalPoppets
Why the ecosystem of web development firms point small business to integrate with #SurveillanceCapitalism to help small businesses have a Storefront on the web.
It's more than ease of set up. The web isn't really there to serve our communities.
Will you take the red pill, and follow the #BigTechWalkout 2026 programme - completing your move away from #bigtech products?
https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2026/
Or will you take the blue pill and go back to billionaire algorithm simulation?
Microslop at it again 😂. They have finally turned Teams into a literal digital ankle monitor. The new update exposes your real-time location and the specific Wi-Fi network you are connected to.
So if you are at a cafe trying to escape the office noise, your boss sees "Starbucks_WiFi" instantly. The "work from anywhere" dream is now just a panopticon. They claim it is "optional," but we all know that just means "mandatory if you want to keep your job."
Proprietary softwares are now morphing from tools to snitches.
Read the horror story here: https://ztechtalk.com/microsoft-teams
#Microsoft #Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #RemoteWork #FOSS
Will you take the red pill, and follow the #BigTechWalkout 2026 programme - completing your move away from #bigtech products?
https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2026/
Or will you take the blue pill and go back to billionaire algorithm simulation?
Microslop at it again 😂. They have finally turned Teams into a literal digital ankle monitor. The new update exposes your real-time location and the specific Wi-Fi network you are connected to.
So if you are at a cafe trying to escape the office noise, your boss sees "Starbucks_WiFi" instantly. The "work from anywhere" dream is now just a panopticon. They claim it is "optional," but we all know that just means "mandatory if you want to keep your job."
Proprietary softwares are now morphing from tools to snitches.
Read the horror story here: https://ztechtalk.com/microsoft-teams
#Microsoft #Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #RemoteWork #FOSS
If a company can collect and access data about you, you can be sure the government and authorities can also gain access to this same data if they want to.
Three books for The Leave X Peer Persuasion Award arrived!
https://leavex.eu/posts/leave-x-peer-persuasion-award/
Tomorrow is time to directly inform the MEPs.
Three books for The Leave X Peer Persuasion Award arrived!
https://leavex.eu/posts/leave-x-peer-persuasion-award/
Tomorrow is time to directly inform the MEPs.
They will never have enough data about you.
They will always ask for more.
That's how they feed the billionaires.
Leave and delete corporate social media.
Before they eat you whole.
#Facebook #X #Instagram #Reddit #Threads #Bluesky #LinkedIn #Slack #Discord #YouTube #TikTok #SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy
And it's done! #WhatsApp account deleted and the app uninstalled 🥳
I promised I would do it by the end of 2025, and I'm a man of my word. I've been prepping friends and family for 6 months.
2026 will be 100% #Meta free for me!!! woo-hoo!
You can do the same, just follow the steps of the #BigTechWalkout2025 at https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2025/
#bigtech #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #privacy #ethicaltech
Wow, seems the people farmers of surveillance capitalism have fully embraced scammer techniques now.
Ran into this new flow on a number of sites just now (Indiewire, Variety, and RollingStone) delivered by the colossal douchebags at html-load.com who run report-error.com.
They make it look like a browser error has occurred and then tell you to disable your tracker/ad blocker.
To the asshole developers who built this for them instead of refusing: Fuck you for making everyone less safe. You dickheads are the problem.
#surveillance #capitalism #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarmers #adtech #peopleFarming #BigTech #IWasJustFollowingOrders #reportErrorDotCom #htmlLoadDotCom #Indiewire #Variety #RollingStone
Nothing like starting the year with a WHISTLEBLOWER confession from a BURNED-OUT, disgruntled - and rightfully ANGRY - Big Tech developer.
Disgraceful Product strategy. Might be legal but screams immorality!
This is Big Tech’s playbook: dehumanize workers, manipulate customers, and call it ‘disruption.’
I don’t care how “good” the service feels. As a consumer and a worker, it’s time to choose and redefine BETTER!
#EthicalTech #SurveillanceCapitalism #NoBigTech #PeopleMatter
Nothing like starting the year with a WHISTLEBLOWER confession from a BURNED-OUT, disgruntled - and rightfully ANGRY - Big Tech developer.
Disgraceful Product strategy. Might be legal but screams immorality!
This is Big Tech’s playbook: dehumanize workers, manipulate customers, and call it ‘disruption.’
I don’t care how “good” the service feels. As a consumer and a worker, it’s time to choose and redefine BETTER!
#EthicalTech #SurveillanceCapitalism #NoBigTech #PeopleMatter
Recently we have seen a massive spike of calls to /api/v1/instance/domain_blocks, from all kinds of players, including Google, Microsoft, Chinese IP addresses, a server farm in Cyprus and one belonging to an online casino farm on Malta. Those happen on medic.cafe as well as #Hule, which does not support domain blocks (yet).
I am wondering: what is the value of those (~4k today) spiders? Who would benefit from knowing which instances are blocked by whom? I am aware, that there's a bot run by an "edgy" MAGA/Hatepost/Memefarm instance, but this massive interest across actors makes me wonder.
I think the #AI bots are fed and 'know' the entire #API of most #fedi apps, and just walk out each and every pathway of our #SocialGraph, in search for stuff to scrape.
AI data hunger comes on top of #SurveillanceCapitalism data-is-the-new-oil exploitation of personal information, and our 🥧 #PII is attractively served in this largely wholly unprotected #fediverse of ours.
Lastly a medical-themed instance more than anything will attract data vultures: 😋 Juicy #privacy-sensitive nuggets.
