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 ==== Context ====
-  - paying attention to data privacy for a while
+  - I am paying attention to data privacy for a while. I tried to reduce my usage of the GAFAM ((Google Apple Facebook Amazon Microsoft)) products as much as I could for past years. It is pretty hard.
-  - getting exhausted by GAFAM spies: you talked/search for one topic on the internet and right after you got ads about it everywhere on GAFAM products
+  - I am getting more and more exhausted by GAFAM spies: you talked/search for one topic on the internet and right after you got ads about it everywhere on GAFAM products.
-  - How I can challenge people to quit GAFAM products if I don't do it whereas I have the technical skills and I can afford it ?
+  - How I can challenge people to quit((at least reduce usage)) GAFAM products if I don't do it whereas I have the technical skills and I can afford it ?
+  - I could give more examples, but it is time for action. No more bullshit, no more excuse.
 ==== The trigger ====
-{{ :en:leave-gafam:part1-en.png?600 |the trigger}}
+In January 2023, I was watching one video about this topic "How to free yourself from GAFAM ? with Framasoft"((only in French)).
+[[https://video.blast-info.fr/w/hmDGgcAAZuxB5Q8nVZNEc3|{{ :en:leave-gafam:comment-se-liberer-des-gafam.png?nolink&400 |Blast Au Poste Comment se liberer des GAFAM ?}}]]
+Really interesting and during the video, one guy from [[https://framasoft.org/|Framasoft]] was talking about a story of tracking applications in the US:
+  For 160 US dollars you could buy data telling you if a women aborted,
+  when and where !
+WTF?!? :-( [[https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vzjb/location-data-abortion-clinics-safegraph-planned-parenthood|source Vice.com in english]] [[https://www.telerama.fr/debats-reportages/droit-a-l-avortement-aux-etats-unis-smartphones-et-applis-se-retournent-contre-les-femmes-7010524.php|source telerama.fr in French]]
+Sad reminder: yes [[https://reproductiverights.org/abortion-illegal-11-states/|it is now illegal in some US states]].
+{{ :en:leave-gafam:part1-en.png?direct&600 |the trigger}}
 CC BY-SA 2.0 FR: [[https://ptilouk.net/|Gee]]
+Everyone has a threshold, they just reached mine. I decided to restart the big fight to quit GAFAM. Show that it is possible and reduce the power that GAFAM companies have on our life, our futur.
 ==== Last tries ====
-  - ZTE + firefox OS
+As I said, I already tried to quit GAFAM a long time ago. I wanted to highlight some projects that helped me or at least to say that I was happy to see that something else than GAFAM was existing.
-  - blackphone
-  - Murena
+=== Firefox OS ===
+I was convinced, and I still am, that the first quick win that I could achieve was to stop using an iPhone.
+That's why I tried [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS|Firefox OS]]. I love [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox|Firefox browser]] and their philosophy, that's why I was really excited by this phone OS but too many bugs. I was not able to just receive messages and manage calls.
+=== Blackphone ===
+This english company seems to provide a phone with an clean OS. I was wondering if it could fit my use case but sending the hardware to Canada looked complicated and really expensive and their software package/subscription did not provide me confidence. Maybe I am wrong but I did not go further.
+=== Murena ===
+Last but not least, [[https://murena.com/|Murena]] is the last one I discovered and it should be the one I would start my quit-gafam-quest. No subscription. You can buy their cloud solution only if you want but we can use your own Nextcloud instance. Looks good to me 8-).
 ==== Let's start ====
-  - The first step to leave GAFAM I chose is to quit iPhone, iCloud.
+As I said, in my use case, I guess that the best first step for my quest will be to stop using my iPhone and the iCloud subscription that comes with.
+I know there will be some challenges:
+  - Get all my pictures back from iCloud. I know that exporting is clearly not user friendly like Google Drive ([[https://framablog.org/2023/02/09/la-degooglisation-du-grap-partie-1-la-sortie-de-google-drive/|Degooglisation du GRAP part 1]] in French).
+  - Transfer data and applications I need onto my new smartphone. Especially the MFA((Multi Factor Authentication)) applications required by banks, employers...
+[[en:leave-gafam:part2-murena|{{ :en:leave-gafam:to-part-2-en.png?direct&200 |to part 2}}]]
+CC BY-SA 2.0 FR: [[https://ptilouk.net/|Gee]]