Post A3wMrUOS1OM62lFpQm by jamesmullarkey@w3c.social
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 (DIR) Post #A3wMrS9UM3CN5mEqpc by alcinnz@floss.social
       2021-02-04T19:31:55Z
       
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       I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell; Week 6: Blocking them all - Kashmir Hill @ Gizmodo: https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194A must read for anyone worried about Big Tech.I must say, yes AWS does seem especially hard to avoid. Not that I've tried.
       
 (DIR) Post #A3wMrT9WdOp2CBGOWm by chiraag@mastodon.online
       2021-02-04T19:34:37Z
       
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       @alcinnz It honestly seems like a futile exercise if you include e.g. AWS, mainly because you don't have control over what site owners decide to do.The best you can do, imo, is choosing apps and programs which minimize the amount of information you give the behemoths.As for AWS and services like it, I think the only hope is regulation and nationalization. But...that's probably a while away from becoming reality.
       
 (DIR) Post #A3wMrTkOQKJS2WVpzc by alcinnz@floss.social
       2021-02-04T19:35:27Z
       
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       @chiraag Yes, that's my attitude too...
       
 (DIR) Post #A3wMrUOS1OM62lFpQm by jamesmullarkey@w3c.social
       2021-02-04T19:43:19Z
       
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       @alcinnz @chiraag Slightly off topic but I do think Kashmir Hill has got to be the best tech journo out there. This article on IP addresses blew my mind. https://gizmodo.com/how-cartographers-for-the-u-s-military-inadvertently-c-1830758394
       
 (DIR) Post #A3wwBijxszz0j9hRtg by sadmin@social.tchncs.de
       2021-02-04T20:19:44Z
       
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       @alcinnz"Television makers have turned their products into surveillance machines that collect what we watch and what we don’t watch and sometimes even what we say, and that’s just how most TVs come now."