@privacyint hello PI people!
We (Rebel Tech Alliance) have launched a campaign to help people reclaim their #privacy, reduce their digital footprint and move away from #bigtech
The #BigTechWalkout2025 full programme is laid out here:
https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2025
The challenge is to compete all the steps by the end of 2025 😁
We would be very grateful if you could boost it on your socials for max reach!
@patrickleavy @privacyint I could tell this was written by the EFF after four paragraphs. About half the steps they suggest are pretty clueless. They don't have the nads to delineate what an ethical browser is (esp. since they are now pushing 'Brave'), never mind mention an alternative OS which unfortunately is becoming a critical point. And they bury uBlock Origin under a dropdown menu to advance EFF's pet project (PrivacyBadger).
This guide is so clueless it can't even conceive of users conducting most of their private comms on a laptop instead of a mobile device. F-droid mention is the closest it gets to something effective, but that is probably going away.
Trademark wet-noodle advice from legalists telling people to skitter around the settings panel on devices that are being reprogrammed as we speak to rob them of real alternatives.
@tasket @privacyint oof, don't hold back 😂
This programme is super basic stuff, for the average person who has no clue about tech. Baby steps.
We'll get to the OS switch in the 2026 challenge.
We list browsers here https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/browsers.html and when you consider that the VAST majority of people still use Chrome, Safari or Edge - any concerns about Brave can wait.
The #digitalexodus is about better, not perfect 😁
@patrickleavy OK, they "have no clue about tech" but you talk to them like they must have the Apple or Google-approved appliance attached to them at all times. An implicit POV so extreme that PCs don't even appear in it.
"any concerns about Brave can wait."
Oh, no no no... the concerns waited for Apple and Google. And clearly the EFF does not understand that de-anonymization is a big part of the data broker / adtech industry, but you fall for the "we anonymized it" line; otherwise that list of browsers would be different.
And stop telling people to manually take steps to reject cookies. Any decent alternative browser since 2019 will isolate tracking cookies and other 3rd-party objects like web bugs automatically. It screams "re-hashed EFF privacy wet noodle".
This is not a serious attempt; its misleading enough to be offensive.
@patrickleavy @privacyint "The #digitalexodus is about better, not perfect 😁"
Doubly un-serious if you're resorting to that logical fallacy popularized by the Democratic National Committee to keep all initiatives 100% corporate controlled. Yes, "they" are the purists. 🤡
Patrick Leavy
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