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How to Starve Big Tech

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Posted By: Magnante, 4/25/2021 7:45:09 AM

It’s not an exaggeration to say that if America remains on her current trajectory, she will be unrecognizable in another generation. (snip) We forget that Big Tech’s dominance has come about in just one generation and we can track a direct trajectory between the rise of Big Tech and the radical Left’s ascendancy. To have any chance of reversing this ruinous tide, traditional Americans must awake from their stupor and stop feeding the beast that’s devouring them. (snip) All it takes is a few afternoons at your desk to break the Big Tech habit and transition to emerging Alt-Tech options.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: kar120c 4/25/2021 8:57:45 AM (No. 766446)
As someone who works in the tech industry, I can tell my fellow LDotters that none of the suggestions the author is making is beyond anyone who combines a bit of curiosity with a bit of gumption. Really, it is not that hard. Learning to get off the "big tech" grid may even be more rewarding than we think. I for one am sad to say that I could probably do so, if I wanted. Well, after reading this article, I want to.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Jen103143 4/25/2021 9:31:02 AM (No. 766482)
I like SafeChat too!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: udanja99 4/25/2021 9:36:06 AM (No. 766484)
America is already unrecognizable. I was born in the early 50’s and lived behind the Iron Curtain for 3 years in the early 80’s. I never thought that what I saw there would be happening here. I quit using Google anything several years ago and deleted their apps which automatically are installed on smart phones. Google maps can track your movements even if your phone is turned off. I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for years and my email account is through Reagan.com. It costs $40 per year and that money supports the Reagan presidential library and foundation. I also don’t do any social media at all. If I want to stay in touch with family and friends we either text photos or actually use our phones to call and speak to each other in person. No one needs social media.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Bazi 4/25/2021 11:02:00 AM (No. 766570)
Big Tech government/military contracts are the red meat. The rest is icing on the cake. Big Tech. Entrenched.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 4/25/2021 11:23:55 AM (No. 766595)
Excellent advice. Other than using an ancient win 7 system, I am already doing and have been doing these things for a long time. I use Firefox browser with an adblocker that works well. I stopped using the evil Google search engine more than a decade ago, and never used Gmail, using Yahoo since the 90s. I have to put up with a few ads on the side, but it has pretty good spam blockers. I have an old laptop and I should get a copy of Linux up and running on that. I used Linux at work for a while as my desktop machine, but some of the basic applications then, while perfectly adequate for a personal computing environment had some real serious problems scaling into a massive supercomputing environment with extremely large files and extremely large file systems. We eventually had to get rid of it because it was just too "rinky dinky" for a professional, high end supercomputing front end workstation. I think it should be fine for normal home computer use, and also they have had 15 years or so to develop their software, so it's probably better now. I refused to go to Win 8, and then the later ones I made certain did NOT automatically upgrade my reliable and much simpler and user friendly Win 7 system. That was a serious fight to block the "auto upgrade" features that kept trying to force me onto Win 10. It took some special software to block that "upgrade" out, they were so pernicious.
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