My first and best step was ditching Gulag search, then GMAIL. Then it was YT, which 99.9% of the time I refuse to visit. Eventually it will be nice to try to stay away from apps and things that utilize their ad trackers but that's a much more difficult thing to do on phones.
I have disabled my phones so that they can only make phone calls and text. I can't even check the weather. Infuriates my kids, my clients (I can't send them pics of problems that need fixing, or the fixes I make, for example), and everyone I know.
That's good, it's funny that we desire to go backwards in tech because of the insidious nature of the whole thing. I wouldn't entirely mind to have a phone that was the old flip phones, texts and calls only. Pictures I do have to have but could just carry around my other phone SIM-free or even just a point and shoot digital camera.
It's truly a mockery of tech advance that the utility of our devices is perverted into surveillance and tracking that turns them into curses instead of blessings. OSH can't mature soon enough.
My first and best step was ditching Gulag search, then GMAIL. Then it was YT, which 99.9% of the time I refuse to visit. Eventually it will be nice to try to stay away from apps and things that utilize their ad trackers but that's a much more difficult thing to do on phones.
I have disabled my phones so that they can only make phone calls and text. I can't even check the weather. Infuriates my kids, my clients (I can't send them pics of problems that need fixing, or the fixes I make, for example), and everyone I know.
Great success!
Thanks!
That's good, it's funny that we desire to go backwards in tech because of the insidious nature of the whole thing. I wouldn't entirely mind to have a phone that was the old flip phones, texts and calls only. Pictures I do have to have but could just carry around my other phone SIM-free or even just a point and shoot digital camera.
It's truly a mockery of tech advance that the utility of our devices is perverted into surveillance and tracking that turns them into curses instead of blessings. OSH can't mature soon enough.