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Hey guys, stop using Google and Meta and X and Amazon.
They're kinda ruining civilisation with their terrible ideas and all you get in exchange is news that doesn't inform you, social interactions that are largely artificial and a permanent inability to use technology which they exploit by selling you enshittification-laden garbage.
The price of their "free" services is way too high. Get rid of them.
Every time I say this to someone offline, they act like it's literally impossible. It's so frustrating
In some sense they are not wrong.
The average person has no idea how technology works because these companies do everything for them for free in exchange for their private data.
It used to be common that kids would learn how to use computers to pirate music and burn CDs. Now the incentives to learn (free music/movies) is gone because Spotify and Google give you all you want for the low price of your privacy and eternal dependency on them for access to the fruits of technology.
Getting your privacy back means giving up those conveniences and learning to use the technology that you depend on. For most people that is too much to ask.
"Luckily" the deluge of algorithm enabled propaganda and resultant fascist resurgence have some people questioning this bargain.
This is true.
I had to re-learn how to pirate music when I decided to quit Spotify. (FYI, by using tools that rip audio from Youtube videos.)
Check out soulseek, next gen napster with FLAC...nicotine is a good client (use a VPN obvs)
VPN 100%
I don't leave home without it. :)
slskd is a great choice if it's running on your home sever
yt-dlp is a handy tool