Perhaps our British friends should start wearing the Camera-Shy Hoodie?

You’re right, de-AWS will be difficult but maybe you can critique this Github* list.

*Github’s is owned by Microsoft.

In the more than 300-year history of the Brazilian city of Curitiba, no city councillor had ever been removed from office until 2022, when a promising young Black local politician was forced out.

Renato Freitas had been accused of “breaching parliamentary decorum” by leading an anti-racism protest that ended inside a Catholic church – ironically named Church of the Black Men and built by enslaved people in the 18th century.

The expulsion was eventually overturned by the supreme court, but it was far from the last case brought against the 41-year-old Freitas, a rising star in the leftist Workers’ party of president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

He [Freitas] got his ass beat and was left naked in a police station yet he is the one accused of “breaching decorum”.
His accusers need to come over to my family’s house on Superbowl Sunday so we can teach them what breach of decorum really means.

Oh good, so glad you’re back!

Call your credit card company. Depending on the company/bank, they will either give you a few virtual numbers and/or have the option of having one virtual number locked to a certain merchant or utility company.

There’s MySudo (which I subscribe to) but they charge 3%. It’s basically the same as using Privacy.com. Good luck!

EDIT MySudo is not open-source, sorry.

I’ve been seriously thinking about going back to Nokia. De-googled a few years ago, stopped using iCloud and switched to cross-platform and open-source software.

Currently, the Murena Fairphone 4 is the only one you can use in the US (Fairphone doesn’t directly deal with US customers) and incompatible with Verizon and AT&T. They recommend T-Mobile for US coverage.

Also heard about Cape here on a Lemmy post But Fairphone is “not eligible yet”.

This is the old Nokia 3650 that’s in my drawer. I loved it! Then AT&T made me upgrade because they were no longer supporting the old networks.

Thank you, Zerush! It’s nice to know that someone else thinks the same way.

Stop using any sites that require ID.

Ditto. Also:

• Try to use Memoji to make fake ID
• Go to the mall =O
• Go to the library
• Go to the brick and mortar places I used to visit before getting everything online (eg. bank, fam owned businesses)
• Talk to people instead of AI (going to practice that this weekend)
• Go for a walk outside instead of updating the firmware on treadmill
• Buy stamps! (and stationery, no more ecards or evites)
• Learn to plant food in addition to flowers
• Use iPhone to make phone calls
• Maybe buy a newspaper… maybe
• Use my cookbooks more (after I dust them off)
• Think of a new name/alias(es) for myself and start acting the part

…just to name a few.

Thank you from a Lemmy newbie.

When my Android tablet wouldn’t let me do anything unless I was logged in to Google, I ditched gifted it away. Albeit, I like my apple phone, iCloud syncing has screwed me before so I don’t use any of the stock apps. I went full-on Proton (mail, calendar, drive, etc.). I also have a separate email alias FOR EACH account courtesy of DuckDuckGo. It’s been a few years since I’ve had this setup and I have no regrets.

The default browser on my phone is DuckDuckGo only because it has “Duck Player” for YouTube videos. I also have both Firefox browsers, Brave and Startpage (I still have Safari but don’t use it).

Yes, I’ve been using EHDs and USBs since I learned how to use a computer and will do so for the rest of my life. I highly recommend it (redundancy, offline use, Cloudflare chaos).

I wanted to join your de-google team but I don’t have a Signal account (due to the phone number requirement). Speaking of phone numbers, TextNow was my Google voice replacement until the latest update logged me out and demanded that I take down my VPN and subscribe to theirs instead. Such audacity. App deleted and subscribed to MySudo just to have an additional phone number

Instead of Signal we’ve been using Session (The Loki Project). It doesn’t require a phone number to sign up which was my selling point to my fam/friends. My nieces/nephews use Simple X chat (no phone number required).

The Proton Blog has an article about privacy and big tech alternatives which is how I discovered Lemmy:

Wary of US surveillance? Try these European alternatives to Big Tech

Having read your post, I wish that I properly deleted my Google and TextNow accounts instead of just abandoning them. I look forward to learning more. Thanks again.