Activist Consumer

@consumer_activist
8 Followers
2 Following
84 Posts
Each time you make a purchase you nudge the world in a direction, make sure it is the direction you want it to go.

🚨⏳ Act now! You have until November 3rd, 2025 to prevent Microsoft from using your LinkedIn data to train AI.

You're opted in automatically, unless you take action and turn it off.

Here's how:

Go to your account → Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement & toggle the switch off to opt out.

Find out more: https://tuta.com/blog/linkedin-ai-user-data

#LinkedInAI #MicrosoftAI #BigTech

Stop supporting Spotify. We told you a long time ago. They’ve been running ICE recruiting ads for at least the last month. Please stop using it. Please.

From: @caitp
https://mstdn.social/@caitp/115385062235452080

caitp (@[email protected])

huh, spotify is airing hitler youth ads saying they will literally pay you a huge signing bonus to join as a pogrom goon

Mastodon 🐘

Don't be surprised when surveillance tech like #chatcontrol is enforced in the #eu, it's #followthemoney. Tech investors are going all-in on #ai: if the bubble bursts the bulk of their investments last 2+ years can be written off.

So how to ensure a long term client that pays well to secure your investment? Governments!

Sell them on mass surveillance: the scale requires AI, and the necessary processing power and data storage equals a big cloud bill.

Citizens monitored, investments secured!

Inspired by Google's move to remove @organicmaps from the Playstore without warning, I finally decided to move my > 3,000 Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps. To facilitate doing this for others' benefit, I made a quick webpage to convert your Google Maps GeoJSON data to GPX and KMZ files that render well in Organic Maps.

https://rudokemper.github.io/google-maps-places-to-organic-maps/

Convert Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps

Stop using Big Tech to organize your protests! They're part of the authoritarian surveillance and oppression as well.

✊ Replace Meetup/Facebook Groups with Mobilizon:
https://mobilizon.org

📄 Replace Google Docs with CryptPad:
https://cryptpad.fr

📍 Replace Google Map with Organic Maps:
https://organicmaps.app

🎞️ Replace YouTube with PeerTube:
https://joinpeertube.org

📧 Replace Gmail and Google Calendar with Proton or Tuta:
https://proton.me
https://tuta.com

🕸️ Create a simple html website with no tracking and no cookies, and post links to it everywhere, including paper posters and stickers.

We can organize without Big Tech. We have done it for centuries before!  

#Protest #Democracy #DigitalRights #HumanRights #Privacy #MassSurveillance

Mobilizon

What's this?

Orange juice for one cent?

These are #Canadian shelves, and these are #American products

This is at a Loblaws in #Ontario, photo taken on Monday

#Canada retailers pretty much have to give #USA products away as Canadians #boycott the #US and #Trump's bellicose verbal diarrhea and #tariffs

#Florida #citrus growers: you voted for this

(ps:

the food banks don't have any room for this juice, because so much unsold American food is already going to the food banks)

#ElbowsUp

Apparently, if you have facebook or Instagram installed on your phone, #Meta was able to track your browsing habits and link them to your real identity even if you never logged in on the web, used incognito mode or a VPN. I hope Meta gets hit with every fine in the book.

https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could

“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.

You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.

Zero Party Data

Trump administration forced Apple to hand over data on Democrats — and Apple complied completely. The only way to protect yourself from your data being passed on to corrupt and dangerously harmful entities?
Buy European. Buy open source. Buy privacy-first devices.
Support what’s right with your purchasing power.
#apple #trump #privacy #buyeuropean

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/10/22528853/trump-force-apple-democrat-house-intelligence-committee-data

The Trump administration forced Apple to secretly reveal at least two Democrats’ data

The NYT is reporting that Trump didn’t stop at journalists — in 2017 and 2018, it forced Apple to cough up metadata on at least two Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee.

The Verge

What could your minor act of resistance be today?

Set your default search engine to Ecosia, and divert some advertisement income away from Google, to Europe and plant some trees while you are at it!

It's a Europe based search engine company (I know, they still use American search indices...).

Desktop:
https://support.ecosia.org/article/657-installing-ecosia-on-your-desktop-device

Mobile:
https://support.ecosia.org/article/653-installing-ecosia-on-your-mobile-device

#buyeuropean #consumeractivism #boycotusa

On Desktop: Make Ecosia your default on your browser - Ecosia Help Center

On your desktop device, you can use Ecosia in a variety of ways. Ecosia offers its own desktop browser, or you can choose to set Ecosia up on your favorite brow