[kwlug-disc] FAANG-free list

[CrankyOldBugger]

Nice blog post, Paul.  I had never used the word "antediluvian" before,
which is a bit of an embarrassment for me!  I will endeavour to work
"antediluvian" into future conversations with my wife...

I agree that we need to get these characters out of our lives, but that
it's difficult.  Currently I am Facebook-free, preferring instead a mix of
Mastodon and MeWe (and I may drop MeWe soon as it's getting annoying), and
I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google search.  The number of strange cars in
front of my house has increased, but my browsing seems to be safer to me.

I still have active gmail and outlook email accounts, though..  I don't
trust myself to make an email account on my own servers yet as my email
admin skills are lacking..



On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 00:08, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> Back in the Before Times I initiated a conversation about how to go
> Google-free. In thinking more about it I decided Google should not be
> the only target, and furthermore my list was turning into a blog post
> and not a mailing list entry. So I made it a blog post:
> http://pnijjar.freeshell.org/2020/faang-free/
>
> I am sure you have better suggestions than I do. Also I am almost
> certainly missing categories (AWS? Ordering from Amazon?). I wrote
> this response in the Before Times, and boy does it seem quaint now
> (cash? I wanted to pay for things in cash?) but I point to it here in
> the spirit of history (and I guess unethical self promotion).
>
> - Paul
>
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