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

@mikka

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.

“But now things suck even for me and I’m sad!”

Oh, the gravy train ran out of gravy, did it? Something about leopards eating people’s faces?

Here, have a very fucking tiny violin.

🎻

#BigTech #BigWeb #SiliconValley #SiliconRoundabout #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #fascism

“How could we have known?!”

Maybe if you’d listened to those of us warning you – often times your own damn friends – instead of siding with the corporations that paid your salaries/consulting fees/sponsored your conferences/invited you to parties and bought you free booze…

🤷‍♂️

#BigTech #BigWeb #SiliconValley #SiliconRoundabout #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #fascism

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

Great initiative - Digital Independence Day
https://di.day/

(German site but your browser can translate)

Compliments what we're offering:
https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2025
And various links in our Alternatives section of our website: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/

Make your 2026 resolution to say "Bollocks to Big Tech!"

#bigtech #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #privacy #ethicaltech

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

Great initiative - Digital Independence Day
https://di.day/

(German site but your browser can translate)

Compliments what we're offering:
https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2025
And various links in our Alternatives section of our website: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/

Make your 2026 resolution to say "Bollocks to Big Tech!"

#bigtech #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #privacy #ethicaltech

@karen @bkuhn Six years on, and with these companies now openly standing with Trump and complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, do you still support your decision to have Google and Microsoft as sponsors at your conference? Would you do so again today?

https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/#fsf-and-the-software-freedom-conservancy

#SFC #softwareFreedom #FOSS #Google #Microsoft #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley