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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 aborted,
when and where !

WTF?!? :-(

Sad reminder: yes it is now illegal in some US states.

the trigger CC BY-SA 2.0 FR: 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

  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.1676425035.txt.gz · Last modified: 2023/02/14 20:37 by lonclegr