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Leave GAFAM

Part 1: the straw that broke the camel's back

Context

  1. I am paying attention to data privacy for a while. I tried to reduce my usage of the GAFAM 1) products as much as I could for past years. It is pretty hard.
  2. 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.
  3. How I can challenge people to quit2) GAFAM products if I don't do it whereas I have the technical skills and I can afford it ?
  4. I could give more examples, but it is time for action. No more bullshit, no more excuse.

The trigger

In January 2023, I was watching one video about this topic “How to free yourself from GAFAM ? with Framasoft”3).

Blast Au Poste Comment se liberer des GAFAM ?

Really interesting and during the video, one guy from 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 made abortion, when and where ? WTF?!? :-( Sad reminder: yes it is now illegal in some US states.

the trigger CC BY-SA 2.0 FR: Gee

They reached a threshold, my threshold. I decided to restart the big fight to quit GAFAM.

Last tries

  1. ZTE + firefox OS
  2. blackphone
  3. Murena

Let's start

  1. The first step to leave GAFAM I chose is to quit iPhone, iCloud.
1)
Google Apple Facebook Amazon Microsoft
2)
at least reduce usage
3)
only in French
en/leave-gafam/start.1676424655.txt.gz · Last modified: 2023/02/14 20:30 by lonclegr