I love this! May I share on my blog and with my newsletter subscribers at Punching Up Press? We're probably in boxes #2 and #3, with a lot of readers starting off in box #1.
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Thanks for the info! That's interesting, I'm also happy to pay for ad-free. I'll test it out in any case.
Thank you! I might just replace it with Magic Earth.
Thanks! Someone else suggested that to me as well. It's hard when I have only 3-4 spots per category. If I don't use this to replace one of the others, I can at least add it to the links page.
Thank you! I got your email, will reply soon.
Yeah, I figured I was preaching to the choir here! But if you feel the info would help others who are not here, please do share.
I emailed you, but wanted to reply here that I love this! I don't have much to add as I'm having the same problem with my own project trying to make privacy easier for people like, say, my friends and family. They have to really WANT it to go through all those inconvenient steps of changing to alternative products. Even getting people invested in changing their app settings is hard enough!
I think the below commenter is right that people will start to care more when they see what's going to happen with their data under the new administration (in the U.S., at least). We all thought it was a good trade-off for free and cheap products, and soon we may be faced with our data being used to target us personally.
The only thing I can think of is, have you tried sending info about your sites to relevant news outlets, newsletters, etc.? I got a little traction from being mentioned in two newsletters: Cory Doctorow's newsletter and the DeleteMe newsletter Incognito. I'm planning on mailing out print press copies of my free book later in May...I have a PR friend who will be helping me with that.
Qwant search
Interesting! Is it totally free? Looks like it. If it's free and good and not problematic, maybe I'll use it to replace Kagi.
Yes, that was recommended by someone in /Privacy.
Does Kagi actually pay Yandex for searches? Grrr.
This infographic is for less-techie people (say, me...or even more, my mom). If I get rid of everything I've been told is problematic so far (Proton, Kagi, Zoho, in addition to some I actually did end up removing already), there won't be any doable solutions left for my intended audience. (My mom doesn't know or care if something is open source, or what an instance is or how to join one for a search engine, etc. But if she can get away from Google, I feel that's a step in the right direction.)
Maybe I should add an asterisk to the infographic key for anything that's problematic. Then on the links page I can describe the situation with each one, and let readers decide.
I'll fix OM!
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Critical Future Tech Interview on Data Privacy , Surveillance Capitalism & More
(criticalfuture.tech)
President Trump said Thursday a shooting at Florida State University that killed two people was "terrible" and a "shame," but suggested he's unlikely to back any new gun control measures — saying he's a "big advocate of the Second Amendment."
Why am I not surprised?
May be a little elementary for people in this community, b ut I hope it's helpful to someone out there!
My first post ever...and this is the only social media I'm on! So please be patient. :)
My passion project has been to write and distribute (for free) a book called DISENGAGE: Opting Out—and Finding New Options—to Reclaim Your Life from Spammers, Scammers, Intrusive Marketers and Big Tech.
Over the course of two+ years, I went through the process of disengaging myself as much as possible from Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and traditional social media...removing myself from people-finder sites and data-broker lists...protecting my home address and images...getting my photos and bios removed from the web and from AI face searches...etc.
As a former journalist, I thought it would be great to write about my experiences to help others reclaim their power, as much as possible, from Big Tech. The book is free, no email required, no tracking, no affiliate links. Available in PDF and full text on the site, and EPUB on Smashwords and other retailers.
Redditors in subs like r/twoxpreppers, r/privacy, and r/anticonsumption were all over it...but I killed off my Reddit account a couple months ago and plan to use only Lemmy and similar.
So here's my catch-22: trying to promote an anti-Big Tech book without using any of that big tech myself.
Here's what's happening so far:
- Volunteers have been putting promotional postcards inside books at bookstores, in Little Free Libraries, etc.
- I'll leave piles of postcards at the next protest I go to.
- My volunteer PR person has been managing an Instagram account for my publishing company (which I have bo control over).
- I'm having a couple dozen print copies of the book made, on my own dime, for my volunteer PR person to send out (and for myself to put in Little Free Libraries).
I was considering doing a test mailing using the USPS "every door" delivery service, but at the price I feel comfortable spending, I'd be able to cover, say, a couple blocks in Berkeley, CA. Also, not sure direct mail is the way to go since I have a chapter on getting off of direct mail lists. :)
Any ideas? News outlets/podcasters/etc. you know of that might be interested? Fun guerrilla marketing-style tactics I haven't used?
I really, really loved creating this book and I'm passionate about the topic. But I just don't have the reach needed to get it out there the way I would like.
Thanks for any ideas!
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Haha,, I always love a good infographic! Who can I credit for the infographic and links? I have only like 65 subscribers since I don't do much promotion, but I think this will be very helpful to them.