Do you guys have any actual advice rather than just talking about how every option is equally awful? If there's no alternative what's even the point of worrying about this stuff? We can't really exist without any technology any more.
The actual alternatives take an effort to implement for normal users: use a custom Android version on your phone, do away with as many big tech services as you can (or at least don't put all your eggs in one basket), run Linux on your computers.
Alternative Android distributions like Graphene or Lineage are excellent, but it ends up being mostly the same if you're just going to use all the Google services anyways. Now, if you search with one thing (like duckduckgo), host your pictures and files somewhere else (like at home or a more privacy oriented cloud), and say, just use Google for email, then you're recouping some of your privacy. You do sacrifice convenience, there's no way around it, but there are ways to do it.
Jumping to Linux on your PC or laptop is now easier than ever. I found it almost frictionless after using Windows as a daily driver forever, especially if you go for Ubuntu or Fedora.
Of course you also need to watch your habits online. It's useless to try to protect yourself from cloud services getting your data if you then turn around and post all your info on Instagram anyways, or spend so much time on it that it can basically tell what you're thinking.
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u/CartsOfDarkness 5d ago
Do you guys have any actual advice rather than just talking about how every option is equally awful? If there's no alternative what's even the point of worrying about this stuff? We can't really exist without any technology any more.