Day 10 of the Opt Out Project's Cyber Cleanse is leaving Social Media, which I'd say we're all doing fairly well with.
https://www.optoutproject.net/social-media-1/
What social media sites do you still use? What stops you from leaving?
Have you had success helping others to leave? What worked?
As we head into a new week, it's time to look at Day 9 of the Cyber Cleanse.
https://www.optoutproject.net/secure-messaging/
Still trying to convince folks to move to secure messaging free from Big Tech? Have you tried our guide to moving to Signal?
https://www.techreclaimers.club/guides/replace-messaging-with-signal.pdf
What kind of resistance do you encounter from others? What approaches have been successful in helping folks move?
Still using Amazon Music? Enshittification approaches! From July 2nd, 2026 you will lose the ability to download music and will be subjected to ads.
Get out while you can and liberate your music.
https://www.techreclaimers.club/guides/liberate-your-music.pdf
As we head into the new week, lets take a look at Day 8 of the #OptOutProject: Contacts and Calendars.
We're thrilled to announce the public launch of our forum:
https://forum.techreclaimers.club
Come join our community and help set all of us free.
This weekend we start Day Seven of the Opt Out Project's Cyber Cleanse.
https://www.optoutproject.net/day-seven/
Settle in, tune up your browser, prepare for the journey ahead.
We're excited to release our next guide "Begin to Liberate Your Music," which shows beginners how to build and store their own music collection:
https://www.techreclaimers.club/guides/liberate-your-music.pdf
Please share this with friends, family, colleagues, classmates – anyone who will appreciate some help taking their first steps to break free of streaming services and DRM-encumbered music stores.
We'll be releasing more guides that build on this in the future.
Still using Google for email? Disentangle one more thing with Day 6 of the Opt Out Project's Cyber Cleanse:
There are better ways to search. For anyone curious about taking the plunge, we have a guides on ditching Chrome and using Better Search services.
Understand exactly what you are agreeing to when you accept the terms of service. You could be giving away more than you realize.
Welcome https://tosdr.org/ to our growing list of allies.
Tech Reclaimers