2019 goal: remove myself from big tech as much as possible

[Bar182]

I don't get it?

You are red of course you don't get it.

[Scarrdbutsmartr]

Are VPNs even safe? How can I be sure they also arent tracking my activity and selling my data?

Most VPN are free and if a service is free usually the users are it's product

LOL - No they arent safe.


Inb4 - BS they are safe...no one can crack encrypted traffic

Just like everyone believed the Silk Road was safe.

The reality is the government created 99% of the forms of encryption you currently use. If you create it, you can crack and you dont have to crack it if you already own one the hardware points prior to encryption....

In addition most VPNs are point to point connections. The type of VPN connection you would use at your home for internet services IS a point to point connection. That means someone own the other end of the point to point connection. You have no clue who owns it outside of their literature and advertisements....for all you know it could be a government or corporations honey pot.

If I was the government and I wanted to track people conducting illegal activities the first thing I would do is set up a dummy VPN company. Let the flies land right in my big jar of honey...Thats exactly what happened with the silk road and people thought it couldnt be compromised because of TOR.

[BetaAsPhuck]

I don't get it, I have a smartphone, and no social media at all. Why not exercise self restraint?

If you notice I dont have social media either.

I already don't do any social media

Your bb.com account, is a form of social media.

You can post pictures (like your AVI), you can comment on people's pictures, you can DM people, you have social signals (ie. reps and negs), you can post text, vids, and pics to other people on the network (ie. the misc), etc...

So what you wrote isn't true. :-p

[Bar182]

Bit slack the last few days but a bit of an update:

- Have migrated my old business emails across and removed it from Gsuite. Now I have one left on Gsuite but waiting on something to be able to delete that.
- Unsubscribed from 16 mailing lists that sent me emails to my personal gmail that is now forwarding to my Protonmail.

My next Netflix billing is start fo January so I will hold it for the rest of the month.

This week the plan is to do the following:

- Remove Google Chrome and use Brave exclusively
- Stop using Google search and use DuckDuckGo exclusively (and set to home page)
- Waiting on Amazon to close my seller central account hopefully done this week
- Stop using Google Maps
- Clean up personal gmail inbox and migrate old emails to Protonmail, keep unsubscribing from mailing lists and update email address on platforms like my banks etc

Wondering if I should have second Protonmail account that is simply used for signups, contacts so I dont get spammed with junk to my real account.

[The_Trooper]

No evidence whatsoever that these alternative services do not do shady ****.

Also, for a guy working in Big Tech you seem pretty clueless as to what type of mapping (a person to online activity) technology Big Tech has - unless you go the real definition of living off the grid this is impossible.

You do you do though.

this, lol if you think NOW turning off all that chit is going to do anything...

OP can you prove to me your alternative emails are not selling your information?

only way to remove is to go flip phone

[Bar182]

this, lol if you think NOW turning off all that chit is going to do anything...

OP can you prove to me your alternative emails are not selling your information?

only way to remove is to go flip phone

I don't need to prove chit. You obviously do not get the jist of why I am doing this.

The fact Protonmail has end to end encryption is already enough to switch from Gmail, let alone all the other reasons

[The_Trooper]

I don't need to prove chit. You obviously do not get the jist of why I am doing this.

The fact Protonmail has end to end encryption is already enough to switch from Gmail, let alone all the other reasons

your mail client is coded from php and java script you played yourself on thinking it's secure... LMAO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProtonMail

Service cannot even handle the most primitive form of attack, a ddos.

the only thing it has is the physical location of the servers are in switzerland which is outside usa and eu law jurisdiction..,..

who here is a devops/sysadmin/neteginner and can shut OP up Im retired from the tech industry

[Bar182]

your mail client is coded from php and java script you played yourself on thinking it's secure... LMAO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProtonMail

Service cannot even handle the most primitive form of attack, a ddos.

the only thing it has is the physical location of the servers are in switzerland which is outside usa and eu law jurisdiction..,..

who here is a devops/sysadmin/neteginner and can shut OP up Im retired from the tech industry

Im a Systems Engineer...

You seem to think I am trying to erase myself from the internet or something. Try reading the thread, main priorities are: To minimise my online footprint and remove myself from the Google ecosystem.

Nothing you are saying matters to me.

[deltakappabrah]

What is the alternative for google maps?

[RespectYourself]

I use an alternative SMS Program that's encrypted end-to-end called Signal > https://signal.org/

[Bar182]

I use an alternative SMS Program that's encrypted end-to-end called Signal > https://signal.org/

Yeah I am going to use that instead of Skype for Voip calls I think